Utwory na płycie:

• Blessed city, heavenly Salem
• Ecce sacerdos magnus
• Magnificat (Evening Service in D)
• Nunc dimittis (Evening Service in D)
• Behold, O God our defender
• Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
• Te Deum in G
• Lo, the full, final sacrifice
• The Spirit of the Lord

For the Choir of Merton College, Oxford’s first collaboration with Britten Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas has brought together a collection of sacred works from the first half of the twentieth century.A little-known fact is that these stalwarts of the English repertory were either originally intended to be heard with orchestra, or subsequently orchestrated by their composer or a close colleague. Written for enthronements, coronations and the nation’s grandest choral festivals, these national ‘standards’ arehere brought back to life, their orchestral accompaniments affording them the richness, pomp and majesty associated with that epoch.