Noel Edison, Choir of St John's, Elora - Hear My Prayer: Hymns and Anthems (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 69:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557493 | Recorded: 2004
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 69:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557493 | Recorded: 2004
You might accurately describe this program as a compilation of "great hits of Christian church music", including as it does Franck's Panis angelicus, Finzi's God is gone up, Mozart's Laudate Dominum, Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine, Lotti's Crucifixus, Howells' Magnificat, and the overrated, overwrought, overlong (and usually excruciatingly-sung) Hear my prayer by Mendelssohn. We also get a couple of Purcell anthems, O God, Thou art my God and Remember not, O Lord, Stanford's glorious motet Justorum animae, Duruflé's tiny masterpiece Ubi caritas et amor, and the choral setting of Elgar's "Nimrod" orchestral variation (Lux aeterna).