GROSVENOR CHAPEL ON CD

 

Two organ and two choral CDs have been recorded by the Chapel musicians.

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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
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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)

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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