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After the Sabbath
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
David Hardie Organ
Marcus Huxley Director

‘...the 73 minutes flew by in what is a most enjoyable and proficient release.’ Crossrhythms.com

This recording was inspired by a unique collaboration between Tony Iommi (lead guitarist of Black Sabbath),  the Dean of Birmingham, and the Cathedral Choir, gifting the download-only track, How Good It Is to the City of Birmingham, released in January 2017.

This new disc follows that with a collection of favourite anthems for the church’s year, and includes three works written over the last twenty years for Birmingham Cathedral and here receiving their first recording.
 
Hosanna to the Son of David     Thomas Weelkes (2:05)
Dum transisset Sabbatum     John Taverner (7:35)
Ding dong! merrily on high     French, arr Stuart Nicholson (2:51)
The Souls of the Righteous     Mary L Davies (1:30)
When I survey the wondrous cross*     arr Marcus Huxley (4:26)
Nunc dimittis*     Antony le Fleming (2:57)
The heavens are telling the Father’s glory     Heinrich Schütz (4:43)
O clap your hands (Birmingham setting)*     Bryan Kelly (5:08)
If ye love me     Thomas Tallis (2:10)
Say, where is He born?     Felix Mendelssohn (2:37)
Méditation (organ)     Maurice Duruflé (4:30)
Kyrie eleison (8 voices)     Mendelssohn (1:34)
Christus factus est     Anton Bruckner (4:53)
The Lamentation     Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (10:02)
Lift thine eyes     Mendelssohn (1:58)
Tu Trinitatis     Antonin Dvořák (2:41)
Beati quorum via     Charles Villiers Stanford (3:26)
Sicut cervus     Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (3:49)
Faire is the heaven     Sir William Harris (4:50)

Total Playing time: 73:51
    * First recordings