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Bath Abbey recordings

Some of the CDs that the Abbey Choirs and other Abbey Musicians have produced over the last few years. You can see here the covers and contents of the CDs which are available for sale at the Abbey Shop.

 

The Music of Bath Abbey

£6.95

 

       A compilation of popular pieces from previous Bath Abbey CDs

 

       I was glad - Parry

       Beati quorum via - Stanford

       Salvator mundi - Blow

       Ave Maria - Gumpelzhaimer

       People look East - arr. Trepte

       Still, still, still - arr. Rose

       Ave verum - Elgar

       Greater love hath no man - Ireland

       Cantique de Jean Racine - Faure

       Geistliches lied - Brahms

       Fantaisie in D flat Op. 101 - Saint Saens   

       Psalm 121 - Walford Davies

       Ascribe unto the Lord - Wesley  

 

 

Homage to Handel

£9.99

 

       March on a Theme of Handel - Guilmant
       Variationen über ein Thema von George Friedrich Händel - Landmann
       Variations on ‘The harmonious blacksmith’ - Handel arr. Karg-Elert
       Capriccio in F - Handel arr. Karg-Elert
       The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel arr. Maynard
       Five Pieces for a Musical Clock - Handel arr. Spigel
       Grand Chœur (Alla Handel) - Guilmant
       Homage to Handel - Karg-Elert
       Handel in the Strand - Grainger arr. King

 

 

Organ Lollipops

£9.99

 

Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565 – Johann Sebastian Bach

       In a Monastery Garden – Albert Ketèlby

       Wedding Day at Troldhaugen – Edvard Grieg

       Lied – William Wolstenholme

       A Trumpet Minuet – Alfred Hollins

       War March of the Priests – Felix Mendelssohn

       Thirty-Two Feet and Eight Little Tails

(Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen)

– J Redmond, J Cavanaugh & F Weldon

       Toccata – Théodore Dubois

       Vienna March – The Revd Frederick Scotson Clark

       Bell-Rondo (Rondo de Campanelli) – Giovanni Morandi arr. WT Best

       Andantino in D flat Moonlight and Roses – Edwin Lemare

       Solemn Melody – Sir Henry Walford Davies

       Gavotte in B flat – Thomas Arne

       Sortie in E flat – Louis Lefébure-Wély

 

 

Respighi - Poulenc - Rheinberger

£9.99

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conducter François-Xavier Roth

Organ Peter King

 

  • Respighi - Suite in G for strings and organ

  • Poulenc - Concerto in G minor for organ, strings and timpani

  • Rheinberger - Concerto No 1 in F, for Organ, strings and three horns

 

 

Romantic Organ Music

£9.99

Peter King plays  Romantic Organ Music on
the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey

  • Liszt - Prelude and Fugue on BACH

  • Mendelssohn - Sonata vi in d minor

  • Franck - Choral ii in b minor

  • Ireland - Elegiac Romance

  • Saint-Saëns - Fantasie iii in C

  • Reger - Toccata in d min.

  • Reger - Fugue in D maj

 

 

Music for an Abbey's Year 1

£9.99

The Choir of Bath Abbey
Boys & Men
Marcus Sealy - Organ
Directed by Peter King

  • I was glad — Sir Hubert Parry
  • Magnificat in G — Herbert Howells
  • Vigilate — William Byrd
  • I look from afar — Anthony Piccolo
  • On this day earth shall ring — Holdane Campbell Stewart
  • Nunc Dimittis — Orlando Gibbons
  • Ave Maria — Anton Bruckner
  • Greater love — John Ireland
  • Come faithful people — Anon, arranged King
  • Hosanna to the Son of David — Thomas Weelkes
  • Benedictus (Little Organ Mass) — Joseph Haydn
  • This joyful Eastertide — Traditional arranged, Charles Wood
  • Tu es Petrus — Maurice Duruflé
  • Magnificat (Collegium Magdalenae) — Kenneth Leighton
  • Psalm 121 — Sir Walford Davies
  • O what their joy — Sir William Harris
 

Music for an Abbey's Year 2

 

£9.99

The Choir of Bath Abbey
Boys & Men
Marcus Sealy - Organ
Girls*
Robert Jenner - Trumpet*
Richard Dunster-Sigtermans - Organ*
Directed by Peter King

  • Te Deum (Boys, Girls & Men) — Vatican Plainsong
  • Rorate Coeli — William Byrd
  • Magnificat — Anthony Piccolo
  • Gaudete — Traditional, arranged King
  • When Jesus our Lord — Felix Mendelssohn
  • Lord, let me know mine end — Maurice Greene
  • Ave Maria — Robert Parsons
  • A Litany — Sir William Walton
  • An Easter Sequence* — Kenneth Leighton
  • Come down, O love divine — Sir William Harris
  • How beauteous our the feet — Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Thou wilt keep him — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
  • Here my words, ye people (Boys, Girls & Men, with 100 singers from local choirs) — Sir Hubert Parry
 

Music for an Abbey's Year 3

£9.99

The Choir of Bath Abbey
The Choirs of Bath Abbey
Girls & Men
Marcus Sealy - Organ
Directed by Peter King

  • Hail gladdening light — Charles Wood
  • Cantique de Jean Racine — Gabriel Fauré
  • Frohlocket ihr Völker — Mendelssohn
  • Almighty and most merciful Father — Sir William Harris
  • Vox in Rama — George Kirbye
  • Prayer of Henry VI — Henry Ley
  • Remember not, Lord, our offences — Henry Purcell
  • Kyrie — Felix Mendelssohn
  • There is an old belief — Sir Hubert Parry
  • Fac me tecum — Karol Szymanovski
  • The Reproaches — John Sanders
  • O sons and daughters — Walford Davies
  • O give thanks — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
  • Virga Jesse — Bruckner
  • Geistliches Lied — Johannes Brahms
  • Beati quorum via — Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Te Deum Collegium Regale — Herbert Howells

Music for an Abbey's Year 4

£9.99

The Choir of Bath Abbey
The Choirs of Bath Abbey
Girls & Men
Marcus Sealy - Organ
Directed by Peter King

  • Ascribe unto the Lord — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
  • Advent Responsory — Richard Marlow
  • O magnum mysterium — Francis Poulenc
  • Hear my prayer — Felix Mendelssohn
  • Ecce ancilla Domini — Paul Drayton
  • Ave verum — Sir Edward Elgar
  • Salvator mundi — John Blow
  • Ecce vicit Leo — Peter Philips
  • O clap your hands — Orlando Gibbons
  • Listen, sweet dove — Grayston Ives
  • O sacrum convivium — Olivier Messiaen
  • Expectans expectavi — Charles Wood
  • The Beatitudes — Arvo Pärt
  • Os justi — Anton Bruckner
  • Lord, I call upon Thee — Sir Edward Bairstow

 

 

Bath Abbey Girls Choir

Sings

Christmas Carols

£9.99

The Choir of Bath Abbey
Marcus Sealy, Organ
Ruth Faber, Harp
Directed by Peter King

  • Now the most high is born — Michael Rose
  • Ave Maria — Adam Gumpelzhaimer
  • Mid-Winter — Bob Chilcott
  • 2 Carols — Michael Head
  • The little road to Bethlehem

  • Star candles

  • Still, still, still — Trad. arr. Barry Rose
  • 2 Cradle Songs — Max Reger
  • Maria Wiegenlied

  • Zum Schlafen

  • Babe of Bethlehem — Edmund Walters
  • The blessed virgin's cradle song — Sir Edward Bairstow
  • Long, long ago — Richard Shephard
  • People look East — Trad. arr. Paul Trepte
  • A Ceremony of Carols Op. 28 — Benjamin Britten
  • 1. Procession

  • 2. Wolcum Yole!

  • 3. There is no Rose

  • 4a. That yongë child

  • 4b. Balulalow

  • 5. As dew in Aprille

  • 6. This little Babe

  • 7. Interlude

  • 8. In Freezing Winter Night

  • 9. Spring Carol

  • 10. Deo Gracias

  • 11. Recession

 

Matchless Maidens of Bath Abbey

£9.99

Bath Abbey Girls’ Choir
Marcus Sealy, Organ
Directed by Peter King

  • King of Glory — Sir William Harris
  • Ex ore innocentium — John Ireland
  • Litanies à la Vierge Noire — Francis Poulenc
  • Tantum ergo — Gabriel Fauré
  • Panis Angelicus — César Franck
  • Agnus Dei — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The Three Kings — Peter Cornelius
  • Laudate pueri — Felix Mendelssohn
  • Suefzer, tranen — Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Let the bright seraphim — George Frederick Handel
  • Lift thine eyes — Felix Mendelssohn
  • Gott ist mein Hirt — Franz Schubert
  • An earthly tree — William Byrd
  • Missa Brevis Op 63 — Bejamin Britten
  • Kyrie; Gloria; Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei
  • A Song of Wisdom — Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
 

Great European Organs No.51

£9.99

Peter King

plays
the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey

 

  • Praeludium in C — Dietrich Buxtehude
  • Vater unser im Himmelreich — Georg Böhm
  • Praeludium in G minor — Dietrich Buxtehude
  • Orpheus — Franz Liszt
  • Triptico del buen Pastor — Jesús Guridi
    • The Flock
    • The Lost Sheep
    • The Good Shepherd
  • Pastorella — Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Fantasie in D flat — Camille Sain-Saëns
  • Hammage à Dietrich Buxtehude — Petr Eben

 

 

Fantasie

£9.99

Peter King plays German Romantic music on
the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey

  • Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor — Max Reger
  • Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine — Ferenc Liszt
  • Fantasie - Sonate xvii in B Opus 181 — Josef Rheinberger
    Fantasie, Intermezzo, Introduction und Fuge
  • Chorale Prelude and Fugue "O Trauerigkeit, o Herzeleid" — Johannes Brahms
  • Chorale Prelude "O Welt, ich muß dich lassen" Opus 122 xi — Johannes Brahms
  • La Nuit — Sigfrid Karg-Elert
    (Trois Impressions) Opus72 iii
  • Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue of Bach — Max Reger

 

 

Baroquery

£9.99

Peter King plays Baroque works on
the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey

  • Toccata in D minor — Diderik Buxtehude
  • Chaconne in F minor — Johann Pachelbel
  • Chorale Fantasia — Diderik Buxtehude
    Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
  • Concerto in B flat — Tomaso Albinoni transcribed Johann Gottfried Walther
    Allegro, Adagio, Allegro
  • Praeludium in E minor (Great) — Nicolaus Bruhns
  • Batalla de sexto tono — José Ximenes
  • Cornet Voluntary in A minor — John Blow
  • Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux (Veni Creator) — Nicolas de Grigny
  • Four Movements from Messe pour les Convents — François Couperin
    de Trompette, Chromhorne en Taille
    Dialogue sur la Voix Humaine, Elevation: Tierce en Taille
  • Prelude and Fugue in C — Johann Sebastian Bach

 

 

Mozart

£9.99

Peter King plays Mozart on
the Klais Organ of Bath Abbey

  • Fantasia in F minor, KV 608
  • Adagio in C, KV 356 (KV 617a)
  • Adagio and Allegro (Fantasia) in F minor and major, KV 594
  • Sonata in D minor for piano duet, KV 381
  • Allegro
  • Andante
  • Allegro vivace
  • Adagio in B minor
  • Adagio and Rondo in C minor and major, KV 617
  • Adagio
  • Rondo
  • Strahower Improvisation (Fantasia in G minor), KV 528a
  • Gigue in G (Leipziger Gigue), KV 574
  • Andante in F, KV 616
  • Adagio and Fuge in C minor, KV 546
  • Adagio
  • Fugue