ALBUMSheppard: Media vita & Other Sacred MusicWestminster Cathedral Choir & Martin Baker
ALBUMAlonso Lobo: Lamentations & Other Sacred MusicWestminster Cathedral Choir & Martin Baker
ALBUMByrd: The 3 Masses; Ave verum corpusWestminster Cathedral Choir & Martin Baker
ALBUMMacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories & Other Choral WorksWestminster Cathedral Choir, London Brass & Martin Baker
ALBUMMiserere: A Sequence of Music for Lent, St Joseph & the AnnunciationWestminster Cathedral Choir & Martin Baker
ALBUMVictoria: Missa De Beata Maria Virgine & Missa Surge properaWestminster Cathedral Choir & Martin Baker
ALBUMVictoria: Responsories for TenebraeWestminster Cathedral Choir & George Malcolm
ALBUMGregorian Chant from Westminster Cathedral Choir (Also from Argentan)Westminster Cathedral Choir, Sir Stephen Cleobury, Benedictine Nuns of the Abbey of Notre-Dame, d'Argentan & Denise Lebon
ALBUMIn Honour of Our LadyWestminster Cathedral Choir, Sir Stephen Cleobury & Andrew Wright
ALBUMPalestrina: Missa Tu es Petrus & Missa Te Deum laudamusWestminster Cathedral Choir & Martin Baker
ALBUMFrom the Vaults of Westminster CathedralWestminster Cathedral Choir & Martin Baker
ALBUMPalestrina: Lamentations for Easter, Book 3Westminster Cathedral Choir & Martin Baker
ALBUMVictoria: Missa Dum complerentur & Other Sacred MusicWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMExultate Deo: Masterpieces of Sacred PolyphonyWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMDuruflé: Requiem & Messe Cum jubiloWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMVictoria: Missa Trahe me post te & Other Sacred MusicWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMPoulenc: Mass in G; Motets for Christmas & Lent etc.Westminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMLassus: Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera – Festal Sacred Music of BavariaWestminster Cathedral Choir, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts & James O'Donnell
ALBUMPanis angelicus – Favourite Motets from Westminster CathedralWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMChristmas Vespers at Westminster CathedralWestminster Cathedral Choir, Matthew Martin & Martin Baker
ALBUMAdeste fideles: Christmas Music from Westminster CathedralWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMMorales: Missa Queramus cum pastoribus & Other Sacred MusicWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMFrancisco de Peñalosa: MassesWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMJosquin: Missa Pange lingua & Other WorksWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMMasterpieces of Portuguese Polyphony, Vol. 2Westminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMPalestrina: Missa Aeterna Christi munera & Other Sacred MusicWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMStravinsky: Mass & Symphony of PsalmsWestminster Cathedral Choir, City of London Sinfonia & James O'Donnell
ALBUMG. Anerio: Requiem – F. Anerio: 6 MotetsWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMMasterpieces of Mexican PolyphonyWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMPalestrina: Missa De beata virgine & Missa Ave MariaWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMPalestrina: Missa O rex gloriae & Missa Viri GalilaeiWestminster Cathedral Choir & James O'Donnell
ALBUMVictoria: Tenebrae Responsories for Holy WeekWestminster Cathedral Choir & David Hill
ALBUMJean Langlais: Missa Salve regina & Messe solennelleWestminster Cathedral Choir & David Hill
ALBUMVictoria: Missa Vidi speciosam & Other Sacred MusicWestminster Cathedral Choir & David Hill
ALBUMPalestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli & Missa brevisWestminster Cathedral Choir & David Hill
ALBUMVictoria: Requiem (Officium Defunctorum, 1605)Westminster Cathedral Choir & David Hill
ALBUMBritten: A Ceremony of Carols, Missa brevis & Other Choral WorksWestminster Cathedral Choir & David Hill
ALBUMPraetorius: Christmas MusicWestminster Cathedral Choir, The Parley of Instruments & David Hill
ALBUMVictoria: O magnum mysterium & Ascendens Christus in altumWestminster Cathedral Choir & David Hill
ALBUMTreasures of the Spanish RenaissanceWestminster Cathedral Choir & David Hill
ALBUMBritten: A Boy Was Born; Rejoice in the Lamb; Festival Te DeumCorydon Singers, Westminster Cathedral Choir & Matthew Best
ALBUMVictoria Masses: Ave maris stella & O quam gloriosumWestminster Cathedral Choir & David Hill
About Westminster Cathedral Choir
Artist Biography
London's Westminster Cathedral is the leading Catholic Church in England. The Benedictine monks who built and owned Westminster Abbey reclaimed part of the marsh around Westminster. Over the centuries, the land has had several uses. The monks operated a market and a fairgrounds there. After the Protestant Reformation in England, the land was used as a maze, a pleasure garden, and as a bull-baiting ring.
Westminster Abbey (by that time property of the Church of England) sold the land for use as a prison. When the prison was retired approaching the turn of the 19th century, the Roman Catholic Church acquired the land in 1884 for a new major Cathedral Church. It is actually one of the newest major churches in London. Its design, by John Francis Bently, is based on early Christian Byzantine architecture, with a strikingly tall bell tower. Its foundation stone was laid in 1895, and the Cathedral was consecrated in 1910. Its interior is not yet completed.
From the initial planning of the Cathedral by Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, music was given great weight in the church's activities. Cardinal Vaughan had been inspired by the Solesmes Abbey's revival of Gregorian Chant and by the accomplishments of the Anglican Church's choral tradition. Music is the largest single item in the Cathedral's budget. It operates a full-time choral school for its choristers. Westminster Cathedral is the only church in the world that celebrates a fully sung Mass every day.
The Westminster Cathedral Choir, among a few others, can credibly be called the best choir in Europe. Sir Richard Terry, the church's first Master of Music, was a devoted scholar of pre-Baroque polyphonic church music and revived choral masterpieces of Tudor-era English composers and their contemporaries on the Continent. He also vigorously championed new composition. Over the years composers of the stature of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennoc Berkeley, Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten, Herbert Howells, William Mathias, and David Sanger have composed for the Cathedral Choir
It made one of the earliest British choral recordings, an acoustic disc cut in 1908. In the compact disc age, it has made a highly acclaimed series of recordings for the British label Hyperion, ranging in repertory from Renaissance polyphony to music of Britten, Poulenc, Langlais, and Stravinsky. It sings concerts and tours as its church service schedule permits, and frequently broadcasts. It joined the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral (the largest Anglican Church) in 1992 to inaugurate that church's newly-restored organ. ~ Joseph Stevenson
Hometown
Westminster, London, England
Genre
Classical
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