1892 Willis at Hereford Cathedral

1994 Mander at Winchester College Chapel

1934 Harrison at King's College Chapel, Cambridge

1967 Walker at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

1887 Willis at Truro Cathedral

From English Chapels and Cathedrals

…glorious sounds resound in historic buildings, testament to the richness of a centuries-old musical art.

Program Broadcast dates:

• Week of December 24, 2012

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Music played in the program

Hour 1

ARTHUR WILLS: Carillon on Orientis Partibus –David Briggs (1892 Willis/Hereford Cathedral) Priory 247

WILLIAM MATHIAS: Wassail Carol. RICHARD LLOYD: God from on high. FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Frohlocket, ihr Völker, Op.79, no. 1. JOHN RUTTER: Sing we to this merry company –Hereford Cathedral Choir/Geraint Bowen, director/Peter Dyke (1892 Willis/Hereford Cathedral) Regent 388

KENNETH LEIGHTON: O leave your sheep –Elizabethan Singers/Louis Halsey, director; Simon Preston (1892 Walker/Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London) Boston Skyline 124

ROBIN MILFORD: Chorale Prelude on St. Columba –Malcolm Archer (1994 Mander/Winchester College Chapel) Regent 289

EDWARD ELGAR: Loughborough Memorial Chime –John Butt (1934 Harrison/King's College Chapel, Cambridge) Harmonia Mundi 907281

STEPHEN PAULUS: Pilgrim Jesus. JUDITH WEIR: Illuminare, Jerusalem. JUDITH BINGHAM: God would be born in thee –Choir of King's College/Stephen Cleobury, director; Tom Winpenny (1934 Harrison/King's College Chapel, Cambridge) EMI Classics 58070

PIERRE COCHEREAU: Variations on Adeste fidelis (1970) –Jeremy Filsell (1967 Walker/Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral) ASV 1104

Hour 2

PERCY WHITLOCK: Exultemus, fr 7 Sketches on Psalm Verses –Christopher Dearnley (1997 Willis-Mander/St. Paul's Cathedral, London) Priory 6006

HOWARD BLAKE: Walking in the air, fr The Snowman. JOHANN PACHELBEL: Vom Himmel hoch –Kevin Bowyer (1986 Mander/Chichester Cathedral) Nimbus 7711

PETER GRITTON: Follow that star. MYRON ROBERTS: Improvisation on God rest ye merry, gentlemen –Wells Cathedral Choir/Matthew Owens, director; Jonathan Vaughan (1974 Harrison/Wells Cathedral) Regent 399

PAUL DRAYTON: 2 Anthems (This starry stranger; How like an angel came I down) –Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford/James Henderson, director; Philip Millward (1928 Rushworth & Dreaper/Stowe School, Buckingham) CRC 613

HEATHCOTE STATHAM: Rhapsody on a Ground –Graham Barber (1887 Willis/Truro Cathedral) Priory 226

PAUL DRAYTON: The World's Desire. DAVID BEDNALL: Noe, noe –Truro Cathedral Choir/Christopher Gray; Luke Bond (1887 Willis/Truro Cathedral) Regent 377

EDWARD ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No. 4 in G –Colin Walsh (1898 Willis-1998 Harrison/Lincoln Cathedral) Priory 477