Hear My Prayer - Hymns And Anthems

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Cat No: 8557493

Release Date: 03 January 2006

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313249329

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: HEAR MY PRAYER - Hymns and Anthems

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HEAR MY PRAYERHymns and AnthemsWhile hymns of one kind or another, songs of praise, havefor centuries had their place in Christian worship, whether as part of theliturgy or in a more popular form, both hymn and anthem took on a newcomplexion with the religious changes of the sixteenth century. In England these changes were reflected in the The Booke of the Common Prayer of 1549,issued in the early reign of Edward VI, who had been strongly influenced by hisProtestant tutors and guardians. As in the Catholic Counter-Reformation,attempts were made to simplify church music, for the better understanding ofthe people, but music always retained some place in the worship of what was nowthe Church of England, amid all the confusing changes that were taking place.The brief reign of Queen Mary, with a return of allegiance to Rome, did much tosave church music that might otherwise have suffered under an increasinglyCalvinistic government, and on the death of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, the Protestantdaughter of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, brought about something of acompromise, which, while impossible for Catholics and unwelcome to Puritans,nevertheless preserved a degree of ceremony, with music to match. The periodsaw the development of the English anthem, the full anthem and the verse anthem,with its solo element. With a break of fifteen years during the Civil War andthe Commonwealth period, choral music of the Anglican custom has continued in 'quiresand places where they sing'. The present recording includes anthems largelyfrom the Anglican tradition, with a smaller number of works from the traditionalCatholic liturgy and music associated with it.Charles Villiers Stanford was born in Dublin in 1852 andheld a position of importance in the British musical establishment, from histime as an undergraduate at Cambridge, where he served as organist at Trinity College. He studied in Leipzig under Reinecke and in Berlin and was subsequentlyprofessor of music at Cambridge and professor of composition at the newly establishedRoyal College of Music. He made early contributions to the music of theAnglican liturgy in settings for the morning and evening services that remain acontinuing part of cathedral repertoire. His 'Justorum animae' (The soulsof the righteous) sets a Latin text from The Book of Wisdom. It is thefirst of a set of three motets, published in 1905.After apprenticeship to the organist of Gloucester Cathedral,Herbert Howells became a pupil of Stanford at the Royal College in London, where he later taught, becoming professor of music at London University in 1950.He wrote music for the Catholic and Anglican liturgies, works that often arosefrom friendship with those concerned with the various establishments for whichthey were written. His 1945 Magnificat, a setting, together with the Nuncdimittis, of canticles for the evening service was composed for King'sCollege, Cambridge, where his friend Boris Ord was for many years responsiblefor the musi
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