Series Editor John Rutter
Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles in two volumes around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music. The second volume presents a wealth of service material suitable for use throughout the year. The evening canticles are given due space, with seventeen settings, including those by Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell, Walmisley, Stanford, Noble, Howells, Walton, and Tippett. Also included are settings of the Te Deum and Jubilate Deo, alongside seven settings of the Preces and Responses and two additional early Lord's Prayers. The selection is completed with three supplementary items: a set of previously unpublished Psalm chants by Howells, John Sanders's Good Friday Reproaches, and a written-out Order for Compline.
Robert King has prepared completely new editions of all the pre-twentieth-century works, going back to the earliest and most reliable manuscripts or printed sources. Playable keyboard reductions have been added for the majority of unaccompanied items.
Forces or Category: SATB & organ
Difficulty: Easy to Difficult
Ayleward: Preces & Responses
Blair: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor (original setting)
Byrd: Preces & Responses
Byrd: Second Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis)
Dyson: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in C minor (unison voices) (transposed to D minor)
Ebdon: Preces & Responses
Farmer: Lord's Prayer
Gibbons: Short Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis)
Gibbons: Second Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis)
Hooper: Short Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis)
Howells: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor
Howells: Psalm Chants
Jackson: Preces & Responses
Noble: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor
Purcell: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G minor
Radcliffe: Preces & Responses
Sanders: Good Friday Reproaches
Smith: Preces & Responses
Stanford: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G
Stanford: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in C
Stanford: Te Deum and Jubilate in C
Stanford: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in A
Stanford: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B flat
Stone: Lord's Prayer
Tippett: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (St John's service)
Tomkins: Preces & Responses
Vaughan Williams: Te Deum in G
Walmisley: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in D minor
Walton: Magnificat & Nunc Dimmitis (Chichester Service)
Walton: Jubilate Deo
Wood: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis No.2 in E flat
An Order for Compline
