℗ 2014 Hyperion Records Limited
| Released | February 16, 2024 |
| Originated | November 2, 2014 |
| Duration | 1h 10m 24s |
| Record Label | Hyperion |
| Genre | Classical |
Hymns to Saint Cecilia: Music for the Patron Saint of Music
The Choir of Royal Holloway
Available in MQA and 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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Cecilia Virgo
James MacMillan; Anonymous; Rupert Gough |
5:38 | |||
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1.2
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Silence and Music
Ralph Vaughan Williams; Ursula Vaughan Williams; Rupert Gough |
5:46 | |||
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1.3
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La musique
Gabriel Jackson; Elizabeth Bishop; Charles Baudelaire; Rupert Gough |
12:56 | |||
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1.4
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Feast Song for Saint Cecilia
Bernard Rose; Gregory Rose; Rupert Gough |
6:09 | |||
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1.5
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Verses on Saint Cecilia's Day
Richard Rodney Bennett; Margaret Ruth (Meg) Peacocke; The Choir of Royal Holloway |
4:59 | |||
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1.6
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4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: I. There Is Sweet Music
Edward Elgar; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; The Choir of Royal Holloway |
5:22 | |||
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1.7
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Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27
Benjamin Britten; Wystan Hugh Auden; Rupert Gough |
11:12 | |||
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1.8
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A Hymn for St Cecilia
Herbert Howells; Ursula Vaughan Williams; William Mason |
3:10 | |||
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1.9
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Live for Ever, Glorious Lord
George Dyson; John Austin; William Mason |
4:55 | |||
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1.10
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A Song for St Cecilia's Day, Op. 119
John Gardner; John Dryden; Matthew Searles |
4:14 | |||
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1.11
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Sing, Mortals!
Arthur Bliss; Richard Tydeman; Rupert Gough |
6:03 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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"Gough has an exceptional group of singers here. They are impressively responsive, shifting from the rich homophony of Howells’s A Hymn for St Cecilia (anchored always in the bass), to the fidgety contrapuntal writing of Britten’s ‘I have no shadow’ episode and embracing the bluesy harmonies of Richard Rodney Bennett’s Verses on St Cecilia’s Day."
- Gramophone
A new choral compendium from the highly regarded Choir of Royal Holloway, comprising twentieth- and twenty-first-century works written in honour of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music.
In many ways it was Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia—first performed on the radio in 1942—that rekindled musicians’ interest in celebrating their patron saint. The Musicians Benevolent Fund revived the tradition of an annual service of celebration for St Cecilia in 1947, and has marked the occasion with a new commission almost every year. Many of the pieces on this recording are the result of those commissions. Also included is a new work by Gabriel Jackson, one of the most popular choral composers of today, featuring Dame Felicity Lott.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Hyperion Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -1.49 -6.41 to -0.23 | -24.18 -28.46 to -20.91 | -20.11 -25.00 to -16.50 | 14 12 to 16 | |
| 1 | Cecilia Virgo | -0.33 | -20.91 | -16.5 | 12 |
| 2 | Silence and Music | -0.33 | -25.85 | -21.5 | 15 |
| 3 | La musique | -0.38 | -26.17 | -21.3 | 16 |
| 4 | Feast Song for Saint Cecilia | -1.23 | -25.77 | -21.0 | 15 |
| 5 | Verses on Saint Cecilia's Day | -1.32 | -23.67 | -18.8 | 13 |
| 6 | 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: I. There Is Sweet Music | -6.41 | -28.46 | -25.0 | 14 |
| 7 | Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27 | -0.26 | -24.34 | -19.9 | 15 |
| 8 | A Hymn for St Cecilia | -2.37 | -21.57 | -19.1 | 13 |
| 9 | Live for Ever, Glorious Lord | -0.23 | -23.47 | -19.2 | 12 |
| 10 | A Song for St Cecilia's Day, Op. 119 | -2.66 | -23.97 | -20.5 | 12 |
| 11 | Sing, Mortals! | -0.93 | -21.83 | -18.4 | 12 |