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Table of Contents:

• disc 1, Motets. Evening prayers. In pace (5:16) ; Libera nos, salva nos (3:49) / John Sheppard ; Justorum animae / Orlande de Lassus (3:06) ; Pater noster / Jacob Handl (4:22) ; O Lord, the maker of all thing / William Mundy (2:51) ; Visita, quaesumus Domine / William Byrd (5:04) ; Abendlied / Josef Rheinberger (3:23)
• Evening hymns. O Christ who art the light and day / William Byrd (4:25) ; O gladsome light / [melody] Louis Bourgeois ; [harmonized by Claude Goudimel] (1:54) ; Te lucis ante terminum / Thomas Tallis (2:24)
• Motets of the Virgin Mary. Alma Redemptoris Mater (6:52) ; Ave Regina caelorum (3:18) ; Regina caeli laetare (3:35) ; Salve Regina (10:32) / T.L. de Victoria ; Ave Maria / Francisco Guerrero (5:06) ; Bogoroditsye Dyevo / Sergei Rachmaninoff (2:38)
• Two commendations. In manus tuas / William Byrd (3:25) ; In manus tuas / John Sheppard (3:56)
• disc 2. The office of compline (in plainchant) (John Harte, reader ; Simon Wall, precentor).

Author/Creator:

Cambridge Singers , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Contributors:

Rutter, John, 1945- , conductor

Sheppard, John, approximately 1515-1558

Lasso, Orlando di, 1532-1594

Handl, Jacob, 1550-1591

Mundy, William, approximately 1529-approximately 1591

Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623

Rheinberger, Josef, 1839-1901

Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585

Victoria, Tomás Luis de, approximately 1548-1611

Guerrero, Francisco, 1528-1599

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943

Languages:

Latin
English
German
Church Slavic

Language Notes:

Sung in Latin, English, German, and Church Slavic.

Main Work:

Lighten our darkness: music for the close of day [Cambridge Singers]

Included Works:

In pace in idipsum [by Sheppard, J.]

Libera nos, salva nos, no. 1 [by Sheppard, J.]

Sacrae cantiones, voices (5) [by Lasso, O.d.] > (1582) > Justorum animae

Musicum opus [by Handl, J.] > 1. tomus > Pater noster

O Lord, the maker of all things [by Mundy, W.]

Gradualia, liber 1 [by Byrd, W.] > Visita quaesumus, Domine

Geistliche Gesänge [by Rheinberger, J.] > Abendlied

Christe qui lux es et dies [by Byrd, W.]

Te lucis ante terminum, no. 1-2 [by Tallis, T.]

Cantica Beatae Virginis vulgo Magnificat [by Victoria, T.L.d.] > Alma Redemptoris Mater

Cantica Beatae Virginis vulgo Magnificat [by Victoria, T.L.d.] > Ave Regina coelorum

Missae, Psalmi, Magnificat, ad Virginem Dei Matrem salutiones, aliaque [by Victoria, T.L.d.] > Regina coeli

Missae, Psalmi, Magnificat, ad Virginem Dei Matrem salutiones, aliaque [by Victoria, T.L.d.] > Salve Regina, voices (8), organ

Motets [by Guerrero, F.] > Book 1 > Ave Maria

Vsenoshchnoe bdenie [by Rachmaninoff, S.] > Bogorodit︠s︡e Devo, raduĭsi︠a︡

Gradualia, liber 1 [by Byrd, W.] > In manus tuas

In manus tuas Domine, no. 1 [by Sheppard, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Source record: Lighten our darkness [Cambridge Singers] (Whittlesford, Cambridge, England ; Omaha, Neb. : Collegium Records, p2006 — OCLC Number 73331752)

Subjects:

Motets

Hymns

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint — Songs and music

Compline music

Gregorian chants

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Genres:

Songs and music

Performers:

Cambridge Singers ; John Rutter, conductor.

Performance Medium:

5 performers: voices (5)
9 performers: voices (8); organ
1 ensemble: mixed chorus

General Notes:

Recorded Jan. 2006, Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral.
Description based on hard copy version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)
no. 1
no. 1-2

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

Other Standard Numbers:

International Standard Recording Code: GBAKR0613101
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Publisher Number, Collegium: COLCD131

OCLC Numbers:

811244065