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MET 1042 - Music and Art - Seeing Salvation 1000 of Sacred Music

MET 1042 - Music and Art - Seeing Salvation 1000 of Sacred Music
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SEEING SALVATION

A survey of 1000 years of sacred music from the earliers Christian chant, through the richest polyphony of the renaissance, the classical age, to our own time.  It begins with the chant of St Dunstan (c.909 -988) Archibishop of Canterbury, and ends with the music commissioned from John Tavener for the BBC TV series “Seeing Salvation” the world premiere recording of this 21st century work.

Canterbury Cathedral Choir
St Paul’s Cathedral Choir,
Salisbury Cathedral Choir
Christ Church Cathedral Choir
The Orlando Consort
I Fagiolini

St Dunstan            Kyrie
Perotin                 Viderunt Omnes
Dunstaple             O crux gloriosa
Dufay                   Victimae Paschali
Compere              Asperges Me
Obrecht                Salve Crux
Ashwell                Gloria, Missa Jesu Christe
Monteverdi            Beatus Vir
J.S. Bach               Singet dem Herrn
Haydn                   Sanctus: Nelson Mass
Mozart                  Ave Verum Corpus
Stanford                Beati Quorum Via
Tavener                 The Same Yesterday and Forever

running time 74.40 mins notes in English Digital
Barcode 5028165 104222

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