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Showing posts with label Westminster Cathedral Choir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Westminster Cathedral Choir. Show all posts

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Westminster Cathedral Choir - "Salvator Mundi" - Tallis


"Saviour of the world, save us, thou who by thy cross and blood hast redeemed us.
Come to our rescue, we beseech thee, our God."




Sunday, October 9, 2011

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Westminster Cathedral Choir - 'Coventry Carol'


The choristers of Westminster Cathedral  sing "Coventry Carol" which dates from the 16th Century. The carol was performed in Coventry as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors.

The play depicts the Christmas story from chapter two in the Gospel of Matthew. The carol refers to the Massacre of the Innocents, in which Herod orders all male infants under the age of two in Bethlehem to be killed. The haunting lyrics represent a mother's lament for her doomed child. It is the only carol that has survived from this play.


Friday, December 24, 2010

Westminster Cathedral Choir - 'O Magnum Mysterium'


The choir of Westminster Cathedral sing Morten Lauridsen's stunningly beautiful setting of "O Magnum Mysterium" during Christmas Midnight Mass 2009.  As one of the comments posted with this video stated, "this must be what heaven sounds like."

Sunday, May 24, 2009