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A Sequence of Music and Readings for Remembrance
The Proteus Ensemble
directed by Stephen Shellard
Description
The first recording from the professional vocal group, The Proteus Ensemble, directed by Stephen Shellard.
A beautiful and moving selection of music and readings for the commemoration of 1914, recorded in Worcester Cathedral.
Track List
Reading: Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, Verses 1–8
1:31Organ: Elegy — Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
3:22 Reading: To His Love — Ivor Gurney
0:52 Messe pour Notre-Dame Kyrie — David Briggs
5:21Exhortation (They shall grow not old) — John Tavener
3:20Reading: Still falls the Rain — Dame Edith Louise Sitwell
2:31And I saw a new Heaven — Edgar Bainton
5:44Reading: Not to Keep — Robert Frost
1:55Quam dilecta! — Donald Hunt
4:40Reading: Everyone Sang— Siegfried Sassoon
0:42Messe pour Notre-Dame Sanctus — Briggs
3:12Messe pour Notre-Dame Benedictus — Briggs
3:31Organ: Méditation — Maurice Duruflé
3:54Kohima (When you go home) — Tavener
1:45Reading: The Veteran — Margaret P Cole
0:55Messe pour Notre-Dame Agnus Dei — Briggs
6:06Serenity — James MacMillan
4:52Reading: May 1915 — Charlotte Mew
0:59Jesu, dulcis memoria — Pierre Villette
3:47Reading: For the Fallen — Laurence Binyon
0:21O Lord, support us — Briggs
6:49Total Playing time: 66:15
Production credits
Recorded in Worcester Cathedral (musical items) on 29/30 October 2013, and The Elgar Music School (readings) on 4 November 2013
Recording producer and engineer: Gary Cole
Sample audio extracts
Reviews
‘No doubt 2014 will bring a flood of tributes and memorials to what happened a century ago but I doubt that there will be many better than this one. ‘ Cross Rhythms August 2014