Альбомы исполнителя
Kodály & Janáček: Masses
2000 · альбом
Panufnik : Westminster Mass & Sacred Works
1999 · альбом
Martin: Mass - Pizzetti: Requiem
1998 · альбом
Poulenc: Mass in G; Motets for Christmas & Lent etc.
1994 · альбом
Classic FM Carol Collection
1993 · альбом
Faure: Requiem
1988 · альбом
Victoria Masses: Ave maris stella & O quam gloriosum
1986 · альбом
A Festival Of Carols
1986 · альбом
Mozart: Exsultate Jubilate; Motets
1984 · альбом
Mozart: Requiem
1984 · альбом
Christmas Carols
1978 · альбом
Christmas in London
2018 · альбом
Fauré: Requiem Op. 48
2017 · сингл
Sheppard: Media vita & Other Sacred Music
2017 · альбом
Kristna Julsånger
2015 · сборник
Christmas Festival of Carols
2014 · альбом
Byrd: The 3 Masses; Ave verum corpus
2014 · альбом
Victoria: Responsories for Tenebrae
2011 · альбом
In Honour of Our Lady
2010 · альбом
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Биография
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. The Abbey (by that time property of the Church of England) sold the land for use as a prison. When the prison was retired, the Roman Catholic Church acquired the land in 1884 for a new cathedral. It is actually one of the newest churches in London. Its foundation stone was laid in 1895, and the Cathedral was consecrated in 1910. 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, where each child is required to learn two instruments in addition to vocal studies. Westminster Cathedral is the only church in the world that celebrates a fully sung mass every day. The Westminster Cathedral Choir, can credibly be called one of the best choirs 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, Lennox 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. As it expanded its recording activities, the choir also began touring abroad in the early 2000s, bringing its music to audiences in Europe and North America.