Grosvenor Chapel Music on CD
GROSVENOR CHAPEL ON CD
Two organ and two choral CDs have been recorded by the Chapel musicians.
NEW - NOW AVAILABLE
INTO THY HANDS - The Music of Grosvenor Chapel
THE CHOIR OF THE GROSVENOR CHAPEL
Stephen Crichlow & Ben Norris (violin), Rebecca Herman (cello),
David Stark (double bass) & Joe Sentance (organ, for the Mozart and Jackson)
directed by Richard Hobson
A programme of music taken from the choir's current repertoire as heard on Sunday mornings throughout the year. Items marked+ are sung by the regular ensemble of Katy Cooper, Sarah Dacey, Kat Holdsworth, Andrew McAnerney and Ben Beurklian Carter, who are also the soloists in the Mozart mass. Other pieces use additional singers who regularly perform at the chapel.
Missa Brevis in D major W.A.Mozart
Loquebantur variis linguis Thomas Tallis
Ad te levavi oculos meos Robert White
Christus resurgens ex mortuis Peter Philips+
Salvator mundi salva nos John Blow+
Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei Henry Purcell+
As pants the hart G.F.Handel (Katy Cooper - soprano, Giles Pilgrim Morris - counter-tenor)
Come, thou holy paraclete Francis Jackson*
Into thy hands Jonathan Dove
* first recording - commissioned for the dedication of the William Drake organ in Grosvenor Chapel in May 1991.
Regent REGCD351 Available from the Chapel Office £12 (£13 by post) cheques payable to Richard Hobson.
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
THE CHOIR OF THE GROSVENOR CHAPEL
Philip Berg - organ
directed by Richard Hobson
The Spirit of Christmas includes some of the best-loved music from the Chapel’s acclaimed Christmas concerts in a sequence following the Christmas story from Advent to Epiphany. There are well-known carols; music celebrating the Chapel itself (for example Maurice Greene’s anthem ‘Behold, I bring you glad tidings’, which is contemporary with the founding of the Chapel in 1730); and such sublime works as Herbert Howells’ ‘A spotless rose’ and Elizabeth Poston’s ‘Jesus Christ the apple tree’. The singing ranges from the unaccompanied voice beginning ‘Once in royal David’s city’, by way of delicate choral textures and polyphony, to great climaxes accompanied on the Chapel’s renowned organ, and a thrilling set of variations for the organ on the theme ‘In dulci jubilo’.
The Spirit of Christmas is on the Opera Omnia label.
This CD can be purchased from the Chapel Office at a price of £10.00 (plus £2 postage & packing). Please send you order together with a cheque for the correct amount made payable to ‘Grosvenor Chapel’ to:
CD Sales
Grosvenor Chapel
24 South Audley Street
London W1K 2PA
Proceeds from the sales of The Spirit of Christmas will support the restoration of the Chapel. We hope very much that you will help us in this work – and celebrate Christmas with us!
1. HYMN: O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL
2. ANTHEM: THIS IS THE RECORD OF JOHN Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
3. CAROL: RIU, RIU, CHIU Mateo Flecha the elder ? (1481-1553)
4. HYMN: HARK! HOW ALL THE WELKIN RINGS arr. Thomas Betts (mid 18th century)
5. CAROL: AN EARTHLY TREE William Byrd (?1543-1623)
6. CHORALE FANTASIA: WIE SCHON LEUCHTET DER MORGENSTERN
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) (Richard Hobson – organ)
7. CAROL: JESUS CHRIST THE APPLE TREE Elizabeth Poston (1905-1987)
8. ANTHEM: BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GLAD TIDINGS Maurice Greene (1695-1755)
9. CAROL-ANTHEM: A SPOTLESS ROSE Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
10. HYMN: WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT Thomas Clarke (1775-1859)
11. CAROL: THE THREE KINGS Peter Cornelius (1824-1874)
12. CAROL: GOOD KING WENCESLAS arr. Reginald Jacques
13. CAROL: IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER Harold Darke (1888-1976)
14. VARIATIONS ON IN DULCI JUBILO Denis Bedard (b.1950)
Richard Hobson - organ
15. CAROL: THERE IS NO ROSE OF SUCH VIRTUE John Joubert (b. 1927)
1954.
16. CAROL: A MAIDEN MOST GENTLE French tune arr. Andrew Carter
17. HYMN: ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID'S CITY Henry Gauntlett (1805-1876)
arr. David Willcocks
THE GLORY OF GROSVENOR

A CD of 18th c. English organ music played by Richard Hobson on the renowned instrument built in 1991 by William Drake. The organ, in a broadly 18th c. style, is housed in the Abraham Jordan organ case of 1732. Thomas Gladwin was one of the early organists of the Chapel.
John Bennett Voluntary in F
Thomas Gladwin Sonata no.6 in E minor
William Walond Voluntary in D minor & major & Voluntary in D minor
Thomas Attwood Dirge for 9th January 1806
William Russell Voluntary in G minor set 1 no.10
Voluntary in C major set 1 no.1
John Keeble Voluntary in G major & Voluntary in F
Regent RGCD234
This CD can also be purchased from the Chapel Office at a price of £10.00 (plus £2 postage & packing). Please send you order together with a cheque for the correct amount made payable to ‘Richard Hobson’ to:
CD Sales
Grosvenor Chapel
24 South Audley Street
London W1K 2PA
THE WILLIAM DRAKE ORGAN in GROSVENOR CHAPEL
played by Richard Hobson
Recorded in 1993 soon after the new organ arrived, the programme demonstrates the versatility and elegant, unique sound of this renowned instrument, one of the first modern organs to take its inspiration entirely from the 18th c. English style of organ building.
Jean Adam Guilain Suite du Second Ton
J.S.Bach Partita: Sei gegrusset, Jesu gutig BWV 768
Henry Purcell Voluntary in G
Anon Voluntary for Double Organ
John Stanley Voluntary in A Op.7 no.1
William Walond Voluntary in D minor Op.6 no.1
Felix Mendelssohn Sonata no.1 in F minor
Herald HAVPCD 156 Available from record shops and through Amazon
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