NOTRE PÈRE French Music for Upper Voices The Girls Choir of All Saints Northampton   Directed by Lee Dunleavy Organists : Stephen Meakins Recorded in Exeter College Chapel, Oxford, April 2011.   Price: £10.00   We accept payment through PayPal. PayPal is a recognised, secure online payment system. Your PayPal shopping cart will open in a new window. Postage & Packaging is charged at £2 per CD.
You can listen to some of the tracks by clicking the iTunes icon next to the available track. Alternatively, you can download the tracks to your computer by right clicking the desired link and selecting 'Save As' NOTRE PÈRE is a follow-up to the acclaimed 2004 recording from the Girls’ Choir of All Saints, EN PRIÈRE. The generous acoustics and French-inspired organ of Exeter College Chapel, Oxford, provide a wonderful backdrop to nearly seventy minutes of French music for upper voices, much of it not previously recorded, and including music from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Beginning and ending with two great Mass settings, with a large setting of the Magnificat and twelve motets, there is a remarkable variety of colours and melodies. The booklet that accompanies the disc includes comprehensive notes on the works performed and the artists featured, and full texts and translations can be downloaded here. We were delighted once again to return to the splendid chapel of Exeter College, Oxford, to make use of their J.W. Walker & Son organ, the only instrument in either Oxford or Cambridge to be designed in the style of the great French organ builder Cavaillé-Coll. Further details of the organ and full specification can be found here.

				Messe pour deux voix égales, op.167		Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)
1.					Kyrie eleison		3:33
2.					Gloria in excelsis Deo		5:59
3.					Sanctus et Benedictus		5:42
4.					Agnus Dei		4:22
5.				Panis angelicus *		Gabriel Grovlez (1879-1944)	3:41
6.				O mysterium ineffabile		Jean-François Lalouette (1651-1728)	1:56
7.				Ave verum Corpus		Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)	3:28
8.				Panis angelicus		Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)	2:27
9.				Notre Père		Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)	1:53
10.				Premier Magnificat *		Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632–1714)	7:00
11.				Tantum ergo		César Franck (1822-1890)	3:37
12.				O salutaris hostia (1941)		Jean Langlais (1907-1991)	2:31
13.				Prière à la Vierge *		Maurice Journeau (1898-1999)	2:14
14.				Salve Regina *		Déodat de Séverac (1872–1921)	3:03
15.				Prière *		Gaston Litaize (1909-1991)	2:28
16.				Ave Maria, op. 67, no. 2		Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)	2:30
				Missa Dona nobis pacem *		Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
17.					Kyrie eleison		4:02
18.					Sanctus et Benedictus		2:27
19.					Agnus Dei		2:54
				* items marked with an asterisk receive their first recording on this disc.