イギリス教会音楽の至宝（５ＣＤ限定盤）

イギリス教会音楽の至宝（５ＣＤ限定盤）

12世紀以来、800年以上の歴史を持つ英国の教会音楽から代表的な作品を網羅したボックスの登場。1966年にＬＰ５枚組として発売された録音を主体に、新たな音源も加えてより充実したアンソロジーとなっています。クラムシェル・ボックス仕様で、各ＣＤは紙製ケース入り。（ＥＭＩ）

【収録情報】
CD1
1.　イントロダクション・スピーチ（Dr.ハーバート・ハウエルズ）
　（ロンドン、マンチェスター・スクエア、ＥＭＩハウスのコンファレンス・ルームで、1965年10月26日、ＬＰと出版物の共同発売のためにＥＭＩとブランドフォード・プレスの主催により開かれたレセプションに於いて）
Anonymous
2.　Sancte Dei pretiose (Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 572) 3.56
3.　Perspice Christicola (British Library, MS Harley 978) 1.11
4.　Salve sancta parens (Worcester Cathedral Library, MS Add. 68) 4.08
5.　Sanctus & Benedictus (as 4) 1.41
6.　Alleluia psallat (as 4) 1.09
7.　Ave miles caelestis curiae (Bodleian Library, E Mus 7) (ed. Manfred Bukofzer)* 2.40
8.　Conditor alme siderum (Bodleian Library, Laud lat. 95) 3.17
Queldryk*
9.　Gloria 2.37
J.Excetre (fl c1410)
10.　Sanctus & Benedictus 3.21
Damett (d 1436/37)
11.　Beata Dei genetrix Maria 3.19
John Dunstable (c1390-1453)*
12.　Veni Sancte Spiritus 5.19
Walter Frye (d c1475)
13.　Salve virgo mater pia (ed. Sylvia W. Kenney) 4.30
William Cornysh (d 1523)
14.　Ave Maria, mater Dei (ed. Frank Ll. Harrison) 3.40

Ambrosian Singers (*with instrumental accompaniment)
Denis Stevens, conductor
Recorded in No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 27 & 28 May 1965
Balance engineer: Christopher Parker

Volume 2 (1545-1650) (ed. Peter le Huray except where otherwise stated)
John Merbecke (c1505-c1585)
15.　Nunc dimittis (Booke of Common Praier Noted) 1.34
Thomas Tallis (c1505?1585)
16.　Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? 2.57
Thomas Morley (1557/58-1602)
17.　Nolo mortem peccatoris 3.24
William Byrd (c1540-1623)
18.　Ave verum corpus (ed. John Morehen) 4.16
Robert Parsons i (c1535-1571/72)
19.　Nunc dimittis (First Service) 3.14
Thomas Weelkes (?1576-1623)
20.　Gloria in excelsis Deo 3.27
Richard Dering (c1580-1630)
21.　Factum est silentium 3.24
William Child (1606/07-1697)
22.　O God, wherefore art thou absent from us? 2.21

CD2
Peter Philips (1560/61-1628)
1.　Ascendit Deus 2.41
Morley
2.　Out of the deep (Grayston Burgess, countertenor)* 4.31
Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)
3.　Nunc dimittis (Fourth Service) (ed. Morehen)* 4.08
William Mundy (c1528-c1591)
4.　Ah, helpless wretch (John Whitworth, countertenor)* 4.06
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
5.　Nunc dimittis (Short Service) 2.14
Richard Farrant (?c1525-30 to 1580)
6.　Hide not thou thy face 1.58
Byrd
7.　Sing joyfully 2.43
Choir of Westminster Abbey
*Simon Preston (Snetzler chamber organ)
Douglas Guest, conductor
No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, 13, 15, 23 & 27 July 1965
Balance engineer: Robert Gooch

Bonus Tracks
Robert White (c1538-1574)
8.　Christe qui lux es et dies (iv) (ed. Sylvia Townsend Warner) 3.22
Gibbons
9.　O clap your hands together (ed. Edmund H. Fellowes) 5.15
Choir of Westminster Abbey
Douglas Guest, conductor
Westminster Abbey, 18-20 November 1964
Producer: Brian B. Culverhouse
Balance engineer: Christopher Parker

Gibbons
10.　This is the record of John (ed. Fellowes) 4.57
Morley
11.　Out of the deep (ed. Fellowes) 5.05
Gerald English (tenor)
10.　Jaye Consort of Viols (director Francis Baines) ・ 11 John Morehen (organ)
Choir of Hampstead Parish Church
Martindale Sidwell, conductor
Church of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, City of London, 3 May 1966
Producer: Christopher Bishop
Balance engineer: Neville Boyling

Weelkes
12.　All people clap your hands (ed. Walter S. Collins) 1.52
13.　O how amiable are thy dwellings (ed. Fellowes rev. Collins) 3.07
14.　Lord, to thee I make my moan (ed. Fellowes rev. Morehen) 2.34
15.　Alleluia: I heard a voice (ed. Warner) 2.32
Choir of Chichester Cathedral
John Birch, conductor
Boxgrove Priory, Sussex, 4 & 5 August 1966
Producer: Olive Bromhall
Balance engineer: Christopher Parker

Byrd
16.　Victimae paschali (ed. R. R. Terry) 3.31
Tomkins
17.　My beloved spake 5.32
John Barston & Paul Copcutt (trebles)
James Bowman (countertenor)
Brian Kay (bass)
Michael Fleming (organ)
Boys of All Saints, Margaret Street
New English Singers
Simon Preston, conductor
St Mary of Eton, Hackney, 26 October 1967
Producer: Christopher Bishop
Balance engineer: Neville Boyling

CD3
Volume 3 (1650-1760) (ed. Christopher Dearnley)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
1.　Thou knowest, Lord Z58c 2.25
Pelham Humfrey (1647/48-1674)
2.　O Lord my God* 13.19
Purcell
3.　I will give thanks unto the Lord* 9.22
Maurice Greene (1696-1755)
4.　O clap your hands (unaccompanied) 4.17
John Travers (c1703-1758)
5.　Ascribe unto the Lord 9.59
William Boyce (1711-1779)
6.　The heavens declare 13.13
2, 6: Michael Vaile (countertenor)
2, 3, 6: Robert Hammersley and 5 Gordon Anderson (tenors)
2, 3, 5, 6: John Barrow (baritone)
3: Philip Mindenhall (bass)
Choir of Guildford Cathedral (*with chamber orchestra)
Gavin Williams (organ)
Barry Rose, conductor
Guildford Cathedral, 4, 8, 16 & 18 October 1965
Balance engineer: Christopher Parker

Bonus Tracks
John Blow (1649-1708)
7.　Salvator mundi (ed. Terry)* 4.20
8.　God is our hope and strength (ed. Heathcote Statham) 3.18
Purcell
9.　Remember not, Lord, our offences (ed. Walter Emery) 3.22
10.　O Lord God of hosts (ed. Anthony Lewis & Nigel Fortune)* 5.17
Choir of Westminster Abbey
Simon Preston (organ)
Douglas Guest, conductor
Westminster Abbey, 18-20 November 1964
Producer: Brian B. Culverhouse
Balance engineer: Christopher Parker

Purcell
11.　Hear my prayer, O Lord 2.54
Boys of All Saints, Margaret Street
New English Singers
Simon Preston, conductor
St Mary of Eton, Hackney, 26 October 1967
Producer: Christopher Bishop
Balance engineer: Neville Boyling

James Nares (1715-1783)
12.　The souls of the righteous (Robin Lough & Ian Le Grice, trebles) 2.35
Temple Church Choir
Sir George Thalben-Ball (organist & director of music)
Temple Church, London, 27 July 1960
Producer: Peter Andry
Balance engineer: Neville Boyling

CD4
Volume 4 (1760-1900)
Jonathan Battishill (1738-1801)
1.　O Lord, look down from heaven (ed. George C. Martin) 5.00
William Crotch (1775-1847)
2.　Lo, star-led chiefs 4.49
John Goss (1800-1880)
3.　If we believe that Jesus died 3.55
Frederick Gore Ouseley (1825-1889)
4.　O Saviour of the world (ed. Henry G. Ley) (unaccompanied) 2.36
Thomas Attwood Walmisley (1814-1856)
Evening Service in D minor
5.　Magnificat 4.48
6.　Nunc dimittis 2.31
S. S. Wesley (1810-1876)
7.　Cast me not away from thy presence 4.33
8.　Wash me throughly from my wickedness 4.36
William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)
9.　God is a spirit (unaccompanied) 3.02
T. Tertius Noble (1867-1953)
10.　Nunc dimittis (Evening Service in B minor) 3.08
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
11.　Te Deum (Service in B flat Op.10) 6.46
St Paul’s Cathedral Choir
Harry Gabb (organ)
Sir John Dykes Bower, conductor
St Paul’s Cathedral, 21 & 22 February and 2 & 3 March 1966
Balance engineer: Robert Gooch

Volume 5 (1900-1965)
Stanford
12.　Beati quorum via Op.38 No.3 3.46
Charles Wood (1866-1926)
13.　Sanctus & Benedictus (Short Communion Service in the Phrygian Mode) 2.12
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
14.　O taste and see (Timothy Nott & Howard Davies, trebles)* 1.41
Edward C. Bairstow (1874-1946)
15.　Let all mortal flesh keep silence 3.36
Martin Shaw (1875-1958)
16.　Creed (Anglican Folk Mass)* 3.11
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
17.　Turn back, O man Op.36a No.2* 4.19
John Ireland (1879-1962)
18.　Greater love hath no man (Howard Davies, treble; Noel Osborne, baritone)* 6.12

CD5
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
1.　Magnificat (Collegium Regale)* 5.14
Sir William Walton (1902-1983)
2.　Set me as a seal upon thine heart (Timothy Nott, treble; Harvey Lansley, tenor) 3.23
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (b 1934)
3.　Ave Maria - Hail, blessed flower 2.48
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
4.　Give me the wings of faith (Anthony Holt, baritone)* 5.35
Choir of Chichester Cathedral
*Richard Seal (organ)
John Birch, conductor
Chichester Cathedral, 22-24 June 1966
Balance engineer: Christopher Parker

Bonus Tracks
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
5.　Give unto the Lord (Psalm 29) Op.74 8.23
Choir of Worcester Cathedral
Harry Bramma (organ)
Christopher Robinson, conductor
Worcester Cathedral, 6-8 March 1969
Producer: Brian B. Culverhouse
Balance engineer: Martin Benge

Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
6.　I saw a fair maiden 4.30
Howells
Carol-Anthems
7.　A Spotless Rose (Roger Cleverdon, baritone) 3.32
8.　Sing Lullaby 3.47
9.　Here is the little door 3.36
John Joubert (b 1927)
10.　There is no rose of such virtue 2.20
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
11.　A Hymn to the Virgin 3.49
Choir of Westminster Abbey
Douglas Guest, conductor
Westminster Abbey, 28, 30 & 31 March 1967
Producer: Brian B. Culverhouse
Balance engineer: Stuart Eltham

Vaughan Williams
12.　Te Deum in G 6.53
Cyril Rootham (1875?1938)
Evening Service in E minor
13.　Magnificat 4.38
14.　Nunc dimittis 3.46
Choir of Wells Cathedral
Anthony Crossland (organ)
Denys Pouncey, conductor
Wells Cathedral, 24-26 May 1965
Producer: Brian B. Culverhouse
Balance engineer: Robert Gooch

H. Walford Davies (1869-1941)
15.　Jubilate in G 3.28
16.　Blessed are the pure in heart 0.51
Thalben-Ball (1896-1987)
Evening Service in C
17.　Magnificat 2.43
18.　Nunc dimittis 1.34
Temple Church Choir
Sir George Thalben-Ball (organist 15 & director of music)
Temple Church, London, 24-26 June 1961
Producer: Peter Andry
Balance engineer: Neville Boyling

All five LPs of the Treasury of English Church Music were produced by Brian B. Culverhouse
Compiled and produced for CD by Malcolm Walker & Richard Abram
Digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Simon Gibson & Andrew Walter
This compilation and digital remastering (p) 2011 by EMI Records Ltd