David Hill leads the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge in performances of two contemporaneous masses by Belgian composers. Joseph Jongen wrote five movements of his Messe en l'honneur du Saint-Sacrement, with brass and organ accompaniment, in thanksgiving for his son's release from Buchenwald in 1945, and added a Credo in 1948. Flor Peeters ...
Edward Bairstow was a composer associated with English churches in the early part of the last century; he later taught at Durham University, where one of his students was Gerald Finzi. He has almost been forgotten, but this attractive disc by the Choir of St. John's College Cambridge under David Hill makes a case for his revival among lovers of ...
This collection of music for Advent and Christmas features a wide variety of carols, hymns, and anthems, some well known and some less familiar, interspersed with plainsong antiphons. The men and boys choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, conducted by David Hill, sings with pure and smoothly blended tone. Among the more traditional hymns, "O ...
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