 
Howard Skempton: The Cloths of Heaven - choral music and songs
DCD34056
DDD
Stereo
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 70'17"
Tracks: 27
Booklet pages: 24
© 2008 Delphian Records Ltd
Sent to a reviewer on 27 August 2008
Listen: Ostende nobis Domine
Beth Mackay, mezzo-soprano (Upon my lap; Pan; Xenophanes)
Bartholomew Lawrence, baritone (Lamentations; Emerson Songs)
Christopher Sheldrake, baritone (O Life!)
Jeffrey Makinson, organ (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis)
James Akers, theorbo (Lamentations)
The Exon Singers
Matthew Owens, conductor
Howard Skempton (born 1947):
Upon my lap my sovereign sits, for mezzo-soprano
O Saviour of the World
Locus iste
The Song of Songs
O Life! for baritone and organ
Nature's Fire for organ
Adam lay y-bounden
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Edinburgh Service)
Lamentations for baritone and theorbo (How sits this city; I am the man; The anointed Lord; For oughtest thou, O Lord)
Beati quorum via
Emerson Songs for soprano and baritone (Music; Brahma; Pan; Xenophanes)
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Ave Virgo sanctissima
Missa Brevis (Kyrie; Gloria; Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei)
Ostende nobis Domine
Recessional for organ
First recordings of all pieces except 'He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven' and 'Recessional'
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