NI 1526
Total Playing Time 61.76
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USA Tour 2005
Christ Church Cathedral Choir
Stephen Darlington, director
Byrd, Mass for Four Voices
Walton, The Twelve
Tippett, Five Negro Spirituals
and works by Taverner, Parsons, Greene
This CD, selected from the wealth of music recorded by the choir on the Nimbus label, represents a musical journey, a fitting companion to the physical journey we have made in and around the U.S. in 2005. For the most part, the programme has Christ Church and Oxford connections as a common theme, starting with the period of the College’s foundation by Cardinal Wolsey in the first half of the 16th century, and ending with a particularly fruitful collaboration between two great Christ Church figures of the 20th century, William Walton and W.H. Auden. Here you will find a reflection of the glories of the English choral tradition as well as its contradictions ...
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