Westminster Cathedral Choir

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The Holly And The Ivy 00:00 Tools
Angels We Have Heard On High 00:00 Tools
While Shepherds Watched 00:00 Tools
Away In A Manger 02:37 Tools
Personent Hodie 00:00 Tools
Come To the Manger 00:00 Tools
Holly and the Ivy 00:00 Tools
O Come All Ye Faithful 00:00 Tools
Infant so Gentle 00:00 Tools
Boar's Head Carol 00:00 Tools
Coventry Carol 00:00 Tools
Cantique de Jean Racine: Cantique de Jean Racine 00:00 Tools
Once in Royal David's City 00:00 Tools
Mathias : The Doctrine of Wisdom 00:00 Tools
In The Bleak Midwinter 00:00 Tools
Mawby : Ave verum corpus 00:00 Tools
Sussex Carol 00:00 Tools
I Saw Three Ships 00:00 Tools
In dulci jubilo 00:00 Tools
Pärt : The Beatitudes 00:00 Tools
Ding Dong! Merrily on High 00:00 Tools
Good King Wenceslas 00:00 Tools
Ding Dong Merrily on High 00:00 Tools
The First Nowell 00:00 Tools
Hark The Herald Angels Sing 00:00 Tools
Bethlehem Down 00:00 Tools
Silent Night 00:00 Tools
Howells : Salve regina 00:00 Tools
I sing of a maiden 00:00 Tools
ALLEGRI Miserere mei, Deus 00:00 Tools
While Shepherds Waatched Their Flocks By Night 00:00 Tools
Rocking 00:00 Tools
The First Noel 00:00 Tools
Tavener : Funeral Ikos 00:00 Tools
Good King Wencelas 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici : II Gloria 00:00 Tools
Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Ave Maria 00:00 Tools
Ave Verum Corpus 00:00 Tools
Gloria 00:00 Tools
Requiem Op. 48: 1. Introit et Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici : IV Sanctus 00:00 Tools
O Magnum Mysterium 00:00 Tools
Responsories For Tenebrae: Maundy Thursday, Second Nocturn. Amicus Meus 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Maundy Thursday, Second Nocturn. Judas Mercator 00:00 Tools
Sanctus 00:00 Tools
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night 00:00 Tools
The Boars Head Carol 00:00 Tools
Requiem Op. 48: 2. Offertoire 00:00 Tools
Requiem Op. 48: 7. In paradisum 00:00 Tools
Requiem Op. 48: 5. Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Tantum Ergo, Op. 65/2: Tantum Ergo, Op. 65/2 00:00 Tools
O Come, O Come Emmanuel 00:00 Tools
Personet Hodie 00:00 Tools
Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Maundy Thursday, Second Nocturn. Unus Ex Discipulis 00:00 Tools
Requiem Op. 48: 4. Pie Jesu 00:00 Tools
Credo 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici : V Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici : I Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Hob and Colin 00:00 Tools
Requiem Op. 48: 3. Sanctus 00:00 Tools
O Little Town Of Bethlehem 00:00 Tools
Tu es Petrus 00:00 Tools
Messe Basse: 1. Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Sicut Cervus 00:00 Tools
MONTEVERDI Cantate Domino 00:00 Tools
Requiem Op. 48: 6. Libera me 00:00 Tools
Adeste Fideles 00:00 Tools
Messe Basse: 2. Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Good Friday, Third Nocturn. Jesum Tradidit Impius 00:00 Tools
Messe Basse: 3. Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici : III Credo 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Holy Saturday, Second Nocturn. O Vos Omnes 00:00 Tools
Messe Basse: 4. Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici : VI Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Carillon De Westminster 00:00 Tools
Boars Head Carol 00:00 Tools
Angels We Heard on High 00:00 Tools
Cantate Domino 00:00 Tools
Kyrie: Orbis factor 00:00 Tools
While Shepards Watched 00:00 Tools
Responsories For Tenebrae: Maundy Thursday, Third Nocturn. Eram Quasi Agnus 00:00 Tools
Maria Mater Gratiae, Op. 47/2: Maria Mater Gratiae, Op. 47/2 00:00 Tools
While Shepherd's Watched 00:00 Tools
Holly 00:00 Tools
Hymn for the cross: Vexilla regis 00:00 Tools
Christmas Antiphon: Hodie Christus 00:00 Tools
Panis Angelicus 00:00 Tools
Two Easter versicles 00:00 Tools
Salve regina 00:00 Tools
Funeral Ikos 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Good Friday, Third Nocturn. Caligaverunt Oculi 00:00 Tools
Responsories For Tenebrae: Good Friday, Second Nocturn. Tamquam Ad Latronem 00:00 Tools
Funeral chant: In Paradisum 00:00 Tools
Miserere mei, Deus 00:00 Tools
Peccantem me quotidie 00:00 Tools
Exsultate Deo 00:00 Tools
Easter Responsory: Surrexit Dominus 00:00 Tools
Tantum Ergo 00:00 Tools
Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Holy Saturday, Third Nocturn. Sepulto Domino 00:00 Tools
Infant So Gental 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Holy Saturday, Second Nocturn. Ecce Quomodo Moritur 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Holy Saturday, Third Nocturn. Astiterunt Reges 00:00 Tools
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day 00:00 Tools
Gregorian Grace before meals 00:00 Tools
Three Easter Allelujahs 00:00 Tools
Alma redemptoris mater 00:00 Tools
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 00:00 Tools
As With Gladness Men Of Old 00:00 Tools
O salutaris hostia 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Good Friday, Second Nocturn. Animam Meam 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Holy Saturday, Second Nocturn. Recessit Pastor 00:00 Tools
We Three Kings 00:00 Tools
Bach: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Good Friday, Second Nocturn. Tenebrae Factae Sunt 00:00 Tools
Responsories For Tenebrae: Maundy Thursday, Third Nocturn. Seniores Populi 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : IV Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Responsories for Tenebrae: Holy Saturday, Third Nocturn. Aestimatus Sum 00:00 Tools
Jubilate Deo 00:00 Tools
Christmas hymn: Puer natus 00:00 Tools
An evening hymn: Te lucis 00:00 Tools
Lauda Sion 00:00 Tools
The Beatitudes 00:00 Tools
Adoramus Te 00:00 Tools
Hob & Colin 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : I Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : III Credo 00:00 Tools
Professional Chant for Candlemass: Lumen 00:00 Tools
Hymn to the Holy Spirit: Veni Creator 00:00 Tools
Two prayers of thanksgiving 00:00 Tools
Ave Maris Stella 00:00 Tools
Hail Blessed Virgin Mary 00:00 Tools
Messe Solennelle in C sharp minor - Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : II Gloria 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : VI Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
O Come All Ye Faithfull 00:00 Tools
Crucifixus 00:00 Tools
Advent Hymn: Conditor alme siderum 00:00 Tools
Magnificat Primi toni 00:00 Tools
Ode to Joy (Symphony No.9 in D Minor) 00:00 Tools
In the bleak mid-winter 00:00 Tools
Rubbra : Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : V Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Improvisation on "Hark the Herald Angels" 00:00 Tools
While Shepherds Watched/It Came Upon A Midnight Clear/Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Medley 00:00 Tools
PALESTRINA Sicut cervus 00:00 Tools
I Wonder As I Wander 00:00 Tools
Iam lucis 00:00 Tools
Personant Hodie 00:00 Tools
Ave Maria (Mendelssohn) 00:00 Tools
Messe Solennelle in C sharp minor - Gloria 00:00 Tools
Messe Solennelle in C sharp minor - Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Messe Solennelle in C sharp minor - Sanctus 00:00 Tools
The Doctrine of Wisdom 00:00 Tools
Quem pastores laudavere 00:00 Tools
Trisagion from the Good Friday liturgy 00:00 Tools
Medieval teaching aid: Ut queant laxis 00:00 Tools
The Seven Joys Of Mary 00:00 Tools
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring 00:00 Tools
Jubilate Deo - Gabriele 00:00 Tools
Laudate Dominum 00:00 Tools
Sheep May Safely Graze 00:00 Tools
Requiem, Op.9: 5.Pie Iesu 00:00 Tools
Messe Solennelle in C sharp minor - Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring 00:00 Tools
The Laudes regiae or Royal acclamations: Chritus vincit 00:00 Tools
Hob &Colin 00:00 Tools
Miserere mei - Allegri 00:00 Tools
Messe à deux choeurs et deux orgues - Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Magnificat quarti toni 00:00 Tools
Messe à deux choeurs et deux orgues - Gloria 00:00 Tools
A New Song 00:00 Tools
Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : VI Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Introit: Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum - Live 00:00 Tools
Requiem, Op.9: 6.Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Agnus Dei I 00:00 Tools
01 - Alma redemptoris mater 00:00 Tools
Laudate Pueri 00:00 Tools
Sicut Cervus Desiderat 00:00 Tools
While Shephards Watched 00:00 Tools
A Hymn to the Virgin 00:00 Tools
Christus vincit 00:00 Tools
Messe à deux choeurs et deux orgues - Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Surrexit a mortuis 00:00 Tools
Requiem, Op.9: 4.Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Instrumental plainsong: In Nomine (settings by John Taverner) 00:00 Tools
Parsonent Hodie 00:00 Tools
Crucifixus - Lotti 00:00 Tools
Canite tuba 00:00 Tools
Salve Regina - Cavelli 00:00 Tools
Pope Marcellus Mass: Credo 00:00 Tools
Faire is the heaven 00:00 Tools
Messe à deux choeurs et deux orgues - Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Once In Royal Davids City 00:00 Tools
Messe à deux choeurs et deux orgues - Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Requiem, Op.9: 1.Introit 00:00 Tools
Requiem, Op.9: 8.Libera Me 00:00 Tools
Exultate Deo 00:00 Tools
O Salutaris Hostia (Gioacchino Rossini) 00:00 Tools
Requiem, Op.9: 2.Kyrie 00:00 Tools
09 - Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Requiem, Op.9: 3.Domine Iesu Christe 00:00 Tools
Requiem, Op.9: 9.In Paradisum 00:00 Tools
Two antiphons for the dead - for the funeral of Phillyp Sparowe 00:00 Tools
Motet: O Magnum Mysterium 00:00 Tools
O sacrum convivium 00:00 Tools
Missa Brevis: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
02 - Canite tuba 00:00 Tools
Deus tu conversus 00:00 Tools
The Three Kings 00:00 Tools
Hark The Herald Angel Sings 00:00 Tools
Sursam Corda & Preface 00:00 Tools
Hodie Christus Natus Est 00:00 Tools
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen 00:00 Tools
Requiem, Op.9: 7.Lux Aeterna 00:00 Tools
Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : I Kyrie 00:00 Tools
10 - Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Dum Complerentur 00:00 Tools
Psalm: Laudate Dominum 00:00 Tools
A scripture reading 00:00 Tools
`A moto from the organ loft` 00:00 Tools
Sanctus & Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Alleluia 00:00 Tools
Vidi Speciosam 00:00 Tools
Symphony of Psalms: Psalm 39 00:00 Tools
Motectum (Funeral Motet) 00:00 Tools
Missa Papae Marcelli: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Hodie Christus Natus Est (Palestrina) 00:00 Tools
Dances from Terpsichore 00:00 Tools
Puer natus in Bethlehem 00:00 Tools
05 - Kyrie 00:00 Tools
04 - Hodie Christus natus est 00:00 Tools
A Child's Prayer 00:00 Tools
03 - Deus tu conversus 00:00 Tools
06 - Gloria 00:00 Tools
The Lamb 00:00 Tools
Agnus Dei II 00:00 Tools
Palestrina's Sicut cervus 00:00 Tools
Ave Verum Corpus (Colin Mawby) 00:00 Tools
12 - Tui sunt coeli 00:00 Tools
08 - Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Missa Brevis: Gloria 00:00 Tools
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel 00:00 Tools
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland 00:00 Tools
Exultate justi 00:00 Tools
Deus in Adjutorium Meum 00:00 Tools
Infant So Gentel 00:00 Tools
While Shepherd's Watched Their Flocks by Night 00:00 Tools
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing 00:00 Tools
Eucharistic Prayer & Acclamations 00:00 Tools
Salvator Mundi 00:00 Tools
Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : III Credo 00:00 Tools
Palestrina 00:00 Tools
Quatre Motets sur des Thémes Gregoriens, Op.1: 1.Ubi Caritas Et Amor 00:00 Tools
Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : IV Sanctus 00:00 Tools
Veni Sancte Spiritus 00:00 Tools
Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : II Gloria 00:00 Tools
A maiden most gentle 00:00 Tools
Pater Noster 00:00 Tools
07 - Credo 00:00 Tools
Tribulationes civitatum 00:00 Tools
11 - O magnum mysterium 00:00 Tools
Welcome, Yule! 00:00 Tools
13 - O admiribile commercium 00:00 Tools
Von Himmel hoch 00:00 Tools
Officium Defunctorum ad Matutinum (Matins of the Dead) 00:00 Tools
Pat-A-Pan 00:00 Tools
Changed 00:00 Tools
v. Balulalow (Ceremony of Carols) 00:00 Tools
Carilion de Westminster 00:00 Tools
Symphony of Psalms: Psalm 150 00:00 Tools
Gabriel's message 00:00 Tools
Missa Papae Marcelli-Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op.66 : V Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Sing Lullaby 00:00 Tools
vi. As dew in Aprille (Ceremony of Carols) 00:00 Tools
Rorate caeli 00:00 Tools
Gradual: Hæc dies - Live 00:00 Tools
Mass: Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Gaudemus in loci pace 00:00 Tools
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern 00:00 Tools
Civitas Sancti Tui 00:00 Tools
Pueri nostri concinite 00:00 Tools
Martin: Mass: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
15 - Magnificat Primi toni 00:00 Tools
Notre Pere, Op.14 00:00 Tools
Ascendit Deus 00:00 Tools
Ave Maria a 8 00:00 Tools
Ave Maria A 4 00:00 Tools
Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris 00:00 Tools
Emendemus in melius 00:00 Tools
Missa: O Magnum Mysterium: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Missa: O Magnum Mysterium: Credo 00:00 Tools
Missa: O Magnum Mysterium: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Missa: O Magnum Mysterium: Sanctus 00:00 Tools
O admirabile commercium 00:00 Tools
Symphony of Psalms: Psalm 40 00:00 Tools
Missa: O Magnum Mysterium: Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Miserere mei 00:00 Tools
Missa: O Magnum Mysterium: Agnus Dei 00:00 Tools
Ave maris stella (Edvard Grieg) 00:00 Tools
Tantum ergo, Op. 65/2 00:00 Tools
Christe, redemptor omnium 00:00 Tools
vii. This little Babe (Ceremony of Carols) 00:00 Tools
Seinti Maria moder milde 00:00 Tools
Ave Maria op 9b (Gustav Holst) 00:00 Tools
GABRIELI Jubilate Deo 00:00 Tools
Collect and First Reading (feat. Neville Kyrke-Smith) - Live 00:00 Tools
Ave Maria (Charles Gounod, Colin Mawby) 00:00 Tools
O Nata Lux De Lumine 00:00 Tools
Ave verum corpus, natum de Maria virgine 00:00 Tools
In Manus Tuas 00:00 Tools
14 - Christe, redemptor omnium 00:00 Tools
Missa pro Defunctis: Kyrie 00:00 Tools
Martin: Mass: Gloria 00:00 Tools
Westminster Mass : IV Sanctus & Benedictus 00:00 Tools
Credo - Missa pange lingua 00:00 Tools
Quatre Motets sur des Thémes Gregoriens, Op.1: 3.Tu Es Petrus 00:00 Tools
Cantique de Jean Racine 00:00 Tools
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Westminster Cathedral Choir is widely considered to be one of the finest choirs in the world. The establishment of a fine choral foundation was part of the original vision of the founder of Westminster Cathedral, Cardinal Herbert Vaughan. Vaughan laid great emphasis on the beauty and integrity of the new Cathedral’s liturgy, and regarded a residential choir school as essential to the realisation of his vision. Daily sung Masses and Offices were immediately established when the Cathedral opened in 1903, and have continued without interruption ever since. Today, Westminster Cathedral Choir is the only professional Catholic choir in the world to sing daily Mass and Vespers. Richard Terry, the Cathedral’s first Master of Music, proved to be an inspired choice. Terry was both a brilliant choir trainer and a pioneering scholar, one of the first musicologists to revive the great works of the English and Continental Renaissance composers. Terry built Westminster Cathedral Choir’s reputation on performances of music – by Byrd, Tallis, Taverner, Palestrina and Victoria, among others – that had not been heard since the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Mass at the Cathedral was soon attended by inquisitive musicians as well as the faithful. The performance of great Renaissance masses and motets in their proper liturgical context remains the cornerstone of the choir’s activity. George Malcolm consolidated the musical reputation of Westminster Cathedral Choir during his time as Master of Music – in particular through the now legendary recording of Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories. More recent holders of the post have included Colin Mawby, Stephen Cleobury, David Hill and James O’Donnell. The choir continues to thrive under the current Master of Music, Martin Baker, who has held the post since 2000. In addition to its performances of Renaissance masterpieces, Westminster Cathedral Choir has given many first performances of music written especially for it by contemporary composers. Terry gave the premières of music by Vaughan Williams (whose Mass in G minor received its liturgical performance at a Mass in the Cathedral), Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells and Charles Wood; in 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote his Missa brevis for the choristers; and since 1960 works by Lennox Berkeley, William Mathias, Colin Mawby and Francis Grier have been added to the repertoire. Most recently four new Masses – by Roxanna Panufnik, James MacMillan, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Judith Bingham – have received their first performance in the Cathedral. In June 2005 the choristers performed the world première of Sir John Tavener’s Missa Brevis for boys voices. Westminster Cathedral Choir made its first recording in 1907. Many more have followed, most recently the acclaimed series on the Hyperion label, and many awards have been conferred on the choir’s recordings. Of these the most prestigious are the 1998 Gramophone Awards for both ‘Best Choral Recording of the Year’ and ‘Record of the Year’, for the performance of Martin’s Mass for Double Choir and Pizzetti’s Requiem. It is the only cathedral choir to have won in either of these categories. The choir’s recordings include two discs of Palestrina on the Hyperion label – the Missa Hodie Christus natus est with motets for Advent and Christmas, and the Missa Dum complerentur with Pentecost motets and plainchant. In addition, the choir has recorded MacMillan's Mass and a complete Mass for Easter Sunday on the Herald label. More recent recordings include a disc of Victoria Marian music and Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor which was recorded last July. When its duties at the Cathedral permit, the choir also gives concert performances both at home and abroad. It has appeared at many important festivals, including Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Salzburg, Copenhagen, Bremen and Spitalfields. It has appeared in many of the major concert halls of Britain, including the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. The Cathedral Choir also broadcasts frequently on radio and television. Westminster Cathedral Choir has recently undertaken a number of international tours, including visits to Hungary, Germany and the USA. The choristers participated in the 2003 and 2006 International Gregorian Chant Festival in Watou, Belgium, where they plan to return to in 2008, and the full choir performed twice at the Oslo International Church Music Festival in March 2006. In April 2005, 2007 and 2008 they performed as part of the “Due Organi in Concerto” festival in Milan. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.