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The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O'Donnell - 'Rejoice, the Lord is king!': Great Hymns from Westminster Abbey (2014)

'Rejoice, the Lord is king!': Great Hymns from Westminster Abbey (2014)
Robert Quinney, organ; The Choir of Westminster Abbey; James O'Donnell, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 326 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 160 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68013 | Time: 01:08:46

This 2014 Hyperion collection of 22 hymns sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey is a straightforward presentation of familiar versions for choir and organ. For the most part, the arrangements are conventional four-part settings, with occasional interpolations of seldom-heard harmonizations and descants, and the performances by the men and boys are appropriately reverent and joyous. The majority of selections are hymns of praise, including Praise, my soul, the king of heaven; Thine be the glory; and Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, though Drop, drop slow tears; I bind unto myself today; and Let all mortal flesh keep silence bring a more somber and penitential mood to the program. The recordings were made in late 2012 and early 2013 in Westminster Abbey, so the sound of the album is typically resonant and spacious, and the choir has a well-blended tone, though the trade-off for the glorious acoustics is a loss of clarity in some of the words.

Westminster Part I: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Abbey  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by roxul at March 27, 2021
Westminster Part I: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Abbey

Warwick Rodwell, "Westminster Part I: The Art, Architecture and Archaeology of the Royal Abbey "
English | ISBN: 1910887242 | 2016 | 428 pages | PDF | 39 MB
Abbey Lincoln - That's Him! (1957/2018) [Official Digital Download]

Abbey Lincoln - That's Him! (1957/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 52:31 minutes | 547 MB
Studio Mono Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

"That's Him!" is the second album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label. Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "even this early, she was already a major jazz singer with a style of her own".
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell - Taverner: Choral Works (2016) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell - Taverner: Missa Mater Christi sanctissima & Western Wynde Mass (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 58:37 minutes | 1,07 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Two of the undisputed choral masterpieces from sixteenth-century England, by one of the greatest English composers: John Taverner’s Missa Mater Christi sanctissima and Western Wynde Mass. The five hundred years since the works’ genesis are but as a watch in the night in these sublime performances from Westminster Abbey Choir and James O’Donnell.
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell - Taverner: Choral Works (2016) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell - Taverner: Missa Mater Christi sanctissima & Western Wynde Mass (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 58:37 minutes | 1,07 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Two of the undisputed choral masterpieces from sixteenth-century England, by one of the greatest English composers: John Taverner’s Missa Mater Christi sanctissima and Western Wynde Mass. The five hundred years since the works’ genesis are but as a watch in the night in these sublime performances from Westminster Abbey Choir and James O’Donnell.
Martin Neary, Westminster Abbey Choir, New London Consort - Henry Purcell: Music for Queen Mary (1995)

Martin Neary, Westminster Abbey Choir, New London Consort - Henry Purcell: Music for Queen Mary, a celebration of the life and death of Queen Mary (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 357 Mb | Total time: 78:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 66243 | Recorded: 1994

Martin Neary and Westminster Abbey Choir, aided and abetted by the New London Consort, marked the tercentenary of Purcell’s death with this recording, a majestic album of the composer’s music for Queen Mary in life and in death. The Funeral Music opens here with Wood’s transcription of the ‘Old English March’ in procession through Westminster Abbey’s reverberant interior, then in company with the windband marches of Tollet and Paisible and Purcell’s Funeral March. For sense of place, history, and grandeur, nothing beats Neary’s recording. His choir are on peak form in Morley’s Funeral Sentences but hindered by indistinct recorded sound.
Abbey Lincoln - It's Magic (1958/2019) [Official Digital Download]

Abbey Lincoln - It's Magic! (1958/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 36:35 minutes | 308 MB
Studio Mono Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career not only out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards but writing and singing her own material. "It's Magic" is her third album featuring tracks recorded in 1958 for the Riverside label.
The Choir of Buckfast Abbey - Ave Maria: First Vespers of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Buckfast (2024) [24/96]

The Choir of Buckfast Abbey & Philip Arkwright - Ave Maria: First Vespers of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Buckfast (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 75:28 minutes | 1,26 GB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Ad Fontes, Official Digital Download

The Choir of Buckfast Abbey presents music for the First Vespers of Our Lady of Buckfast, the Abbey’s patronal feast on 24 May. The Gregorian chant of the Monastic Rite is interspersed with glorious polyphonic works by Felice Anerio, William Byrd and Francisco Guerrero, culminating in the splendid Magnificat Octavi toni by Tomás Luis de Victoria. A thrilling new arrangement of the traditional devotional hymn Hail, Queen of heaven is the climax of this joyous service. Full use of the tonal capability of the Abbey’s Ruffatti organ is made throughout, with a number of liturgical improvisations.
The Choir of Westminster Abbey & James O'Donnell - Vaughan Williams, MacMillan, Tavener: Choral Works (2023)

The Choir of Westminster Abbey & James O'Donnell - Vaughan Williams, MacMillan, Tavener: Choral Works (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 272 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 172 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:12:17
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Hyperion Records

From established favourites by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sir John Tavener, to recent works—including two premiere recordings—by Sir James MacMillan, this is an outstanding programme of choral works with strong musical and historical connections to Westminster Abbey and its celebrated choir.
Abbey Lincoln - It's Magic (1958/2019) [Official Digital Download]

Abbey Lincoln - It's Magic! (1958/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 36:35 minutes | 308 MB
Studio Mono Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career not only out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards but writing and singing her own material. "It's Magic" is her third album featuring tracks recorded in 1958 for the Riverside label.