Toby Ward, Richard Gowers, The Choir of Holy Sepulchre, The National Musician's Church - Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Sacred Choral Music (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Blessed be the God and Father
02. O Give Thanks unto the Lord
03. O Thou who Camest from Above (‘Hereford’)
04. Let us Lift up our Heart: I. Let us Lift up our Heart
05. Let us Lift up our Heart: II. Be not very Sore, O Lord
06. Let us Lift up our Heart: III. Thou, O Lord God
07. Let us Lift up our Heart: IV. Thou Judge of Quick and Dead
08. Let us Lift up our Heart: V. O may we thus Ensure
09. Wash me Throughly
10. The Wilderness: I. The Wilderness
11. The Wilderness: II. Say to Them of Fearful Heart
12. The Wilderness: III. Then Shall the Lame Man Leap
13. The Wilderness: IV. For in the Wilderness
14. The Wilderness: V. And a Highway Shall be There
15. The Wilderness: VI. And the Ransomed of the Lord
16. The Wilderness: VII. And Sorrow and Sighing
17. Psalm 142
18. Communion Service in E Major, Credo: I. I Believe in one God
19. Communion Service in E Major, Credo: II. Who for us Men
20. Communion Service in E Major, Credo: III. And the Third Day
21. Communion Service in E Major, Credo: IV. And I Believe in the Holy Ghost
22. O God, Whose Nature and Property
23. All People That on Earth do Dwell (‘The Hundredth Psalm’)

In an age when church attendance in England was flourishing, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) was one of the foremost composers and organists of his day. Taking advantage of new developments in instrument building, Wesley was able to push the boundaries of English church music in a new direction, encompassing a more ambitious, even operatic style. In this recording - the first to have been made using an organ similar in design to his own - Wesley's music is brought to vibrant life by the young professional singers of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre under conductor Toby Ward.

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