Westminster Cathedral Choir
London's Westminster Cathedral is the leading Catholic Church in England. The Benedictine monks who built and owned Westminster Abbey reclaimed part of the marsh around Westminster. Over the centuries, the land has had several uses. The monks operated a market and a fairgrounds there. After the Protestant Reformation in England, the land was used as a maze, a pleasure garden, and as a bull-baiting ring.
Westminster Abbey (by that time property of the Church of England) sold the land for use as a prison. When the prison was retired approaching the turn of the 19th century, the Roman Catholic Church acquired the land in 1884 for a new major Cathedral Church. It is actually one of the newest major churches in London. Its design, by John Francis Bently, is based on early Christian Byzantine architecture, with a strikingly tall bell tower. Its foundation stone was laid in 1895, and the Cathedral was consecrated in 1910. Its interior is not yet completed.
From the initial planning of the Cathedral by Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, music was given great weight in the church's activities. Cardinal Vaughan had been inspired by the Solesmes Abbey's revival of Gregorian Chant and by the accomplishments of the Anglican Church's choral tradition. Music is the largest single item in the Cathedral's budget. It operates a full-time choral school for its choristers. Westminster Cathedral is the only church in the world that celebrates a fully sung Mass every day.
The Westminster Cathedral Choir, among a few others, can credibly be called the best choir in Europe. Sir Richard Terry, the church's first Master of Music, was a devoted scholar of pre-Baroque polyphonic church music and revived choral masterpieces of Tudor-era English composers and their contemporaries on the Continent. He also vigorously championed new composition. Over the years composers of the stature of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennoc Berkeley, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten, Herbert Howells, William Mathias, and David Sanger have composed for the Cathedral Choir
It made one of the earliest British choral recordings, an acoustic disc cut in 1908. In the compact disc age, it has made a highly acclaimed series of recordings for the British label Hyperion, ranging in repertory from Renaissance polyphony to music of Britten, Poulenc, Langlais, and Stravinsky. It sings concerts and tours as its church service schedule permits, and frequently broadcasts. It joined the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral (the largest Anglican Church) in 1992 to inaugurate that church's newly-restored organ.
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Palestrina: Missa Tu es Petrus & Missa Te Deum laudamus
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 9 de mar. de 2010
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Exultate Deo: Masterpieces of Sacred Polyphony
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de fev. de 1996
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Guerrero: Missa Sancta et immaculata & Other Sacred Music
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de set. de 1997
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From the Vaults of Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de out. de 2009
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Kodály & Janáček: Masses
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de fev. de 2000
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Victoria: Missa Vidi speciosam & Other Sacred Music
Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de mai. de 1988
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G. Anerio: Requiem – F. Anerio: 6 Motets
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de nov. de 1990
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Stravinsky: Mass & Symphony of Psalms
Westminster Cathedral Choir, City Of London Sinfonia, James O'Donnell
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de jun. de 1991
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20th Century Choral Works (- Apex)
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics International em 10 de set. de 1999
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Sheppard: Media vita & Other Sacred Music
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 28 de jul. de 2017
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Palestrina: Missa De beata virgine & Missa Ave Maria
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 23 de fev. de 1990
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Brahms & Rheinberger: Masses & Motets
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de jun. de 2006
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The Music of Westminster Cathedral Choir
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de out. de 1998
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Victoria: Missa De Beata Maria Virgine & Missa Surge propera
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 31 de out. de 2011
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Christmas Carols
David Bevan, Norman Archibald, Westminster Cathedral Choir
Ambient/New Age - Lançado por Hallmark em 1 de jan. de 1978
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Peaceful Christmas, Vol. 1
Ambient/New Age - Lançado por Snowy Christmas Records em 26 de out. de 2016
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Palestrina: Missa Ecce ego Joannes & Other Sacred Music
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de ago. de 1999
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Best Of Christmas, Vol. 2
Christmas Music - Lançado por Snowy Christmas Records em 1 de nov. de 2016
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MacMillan: Mass & Other Sacred Music
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de abr. de 2001
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Byrd: The 3 Masses; Ave verum corpus
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de set. de 2014
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Victoria: Ave regina caelorum & Other Sacred Music
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 1 de out. de 2004
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