A Knight's Progress

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
March 10, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PARRY WALTON MUHLY TAVENER
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Temple Church Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Morris, Sayer
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 10, 2015
    • UPC
      635212041024
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD410
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. I was glad when they said unto me, Op. 51, "Psalm 122"

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer

    2. The Twelve

      Composer: William Walton

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: Oscar Simms, Benedict Davies, Tom Williams, Thomas Guthrie, Christopher Dixon, Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer

    3. I. First

      Composer: Nico Muhly

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: Max Todes, William Towers, Christopher Dixon, Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer

    4. II. Thy Kingdome Come, O God

      Composer: Nico Muhly

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: Max Todes, William Towers, Christopher Dixon, Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer

    5. III. The Beatitudes

      Composer: Nico Muhly

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: Max Todes, William Towers, Christopher Dixon, Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer

    6. IV. Nullus Liber Homo Capiatur

      Composer: Nico Muhly

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: Max Todes, William Towers, Christopher Dixon, Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer

    7. Mother of God, here I stand

      Composer: John Tavener

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer

    8. Valiant for Truth

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: David Allsopp, Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer

    9. Blessed City, heavenly Salem

      Composer: Edward C. Bairstow

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: Emerson Murphy, Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer

    10. Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese, Hob.XXIIIc:2

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: Temple Church Choir

      Performer: Greg Morris

      Conductor: Roger Sayer


• The Temple Church Choir gives the world premiere recording of Nico Muhly's Our Present Charter - a brand new fourmovement work commissioned by the choir to celebrate 800 years since the sealing of the Magna Carta. • Directed by Roger Sayer and featuring organist Greg Morris, the recording also features choral works by Parry, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Bairstow, Tavener and Haydn. • The Temple Church Choir, founded 1841, consists of eighteen boy choristers and twelve professional choirmen. • It is still considered to be one of the finest choirs in London, a reputation it quickly gained after it's founding. • The American composer Nico Muhly (b. 1981) received his Masters in Music from the Juilliard School where he studied under Christopher Rouse and John Corigliano. • He also spent several years working for Phillip Glass as a MIDI programmer and editor. • His wide scope of work for soloists, ensembles, and organizations covers multiple genres, including music for film, opera, choral, chamber, orchestral, vocal and electronic forces in solo or combinations there of.