This programme of Kenneth Leighton's choral music reflects his outstanding accomplishments in the genre across his entire composing career. It includes Leighton's earliest and last pieces for unaccompanied choir, three Christmas carols, two extended masterpieces, and two works composed for the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral itself. Extensively praised under its current director of music Duncan Ferguson, the choir has both a historical affinity for this body of work and a sophisticated musicianship which here produces performances of focused maturity and depth.
1) Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates ()
2) Awake My Glory ()
3) Wassail All Over the Town ()
4) Christ in the Cradle ()
5) Christ in the Garden ()
6) Christ in His Passion ()
7) Hymn (Drop, Drop Slow Tears) ()
8) Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child ()
9) What Love Is This of Thine? ()
10) Of a Rose Is All My Song ()
11) O Sacrum Convivium ()
12) Kyrie Eleison ()
13) Gloria in Excelsis Deo ()
14) Sanctus Und Benedictus ()
15) Agnus Dei ()