A Festival of Choral Music!
St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral Choir
Donald Pearson, conductor
Eric Plutz, organ
Tom Blomster, percussion
Alex Komodore, guitar
“Accomplished church music organizations like St. John’s help to preserve the traditions of the choral art in our country. Many thanks to Delos for bringing them to us. Make a joyful noise!” — American Record Guide
“Whatever it is that subtly (or perhaps not so subtly) makes a difference between nations has been at work here, for thought the Denver choir sing, as the introductory note says, “In the English Cathedral tradition,” and though a large part of the programme itself is English, one may doubt whether singing quite like this is ever to be heard from the choirstalls of Salisbury or Winchester; King’s College, Cambridge; or New College, Oxford. And the difference is not accounted for by the use of women’s or girls’ voices; the sopranos sing with pure, firm, ‘treble’ tone, and, while it is true that the altos can hardly be mistaken for male altos, they form a perfectly natural part of the finely blended choral sound, which in turn has no alien, or markedly national, characteristic. The distinction lies in the feeling for rhythm, and in the sense, communicated throughout the recital, of frank, unequivocal enjoyment in taking part.”
— Gramophone
- Sing We Merrily unto God Our Strength – Campbell
- For the Beauty of the Earth – Rutter
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence – Bairstow
- Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day – Gardner
- There is a Green Hill Far Away – Sumsion
- O Hear Us, Lord – Piccolo
- Greater Love Hath No Man – Ireland
- Loch Lomond – Vaughan Williams
- Jubilate Deo – Britten
- A Song to the Lamb – Susa
- The Lord Is My Light – Hallock
- Warm-up – Bernstein
- What Sweeter Music – Fink
- Agnus Dei (trans. from Adagio for Strings, Barber)
- Advent Procession – Pearson
- Easter Anthem – Baker
- And All in the Morning – Near
- Epiphany Alleluias – Weaver