English Church Music, Volume 1: Anthems and Motets: Vocal score

Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles in two volumes around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music of the past five centuries. The first volume, dedicated to anthems and motets, presents both favourite and lesser-known works, from the exceptional Renaissance polyphony of Taverner, Tallis, and Byrd, through the Restoration led by Purcell, to the glorious works of the great nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, including Wesley, Elgar, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, and Howells. The volume contains a number of more substantial works, including Mendelssohn's Hear my prayer, Stainer's I saw the Lord, and Naylor's Vox dicentis: Clama, as well as a wonderful selection of shorter pieces, from Gibbons's O Lord, in thy wrath to Walton's Set me as a seal upon thine heart. With the second companion volume of canticles and responses, this bipartite collection presents a comprehensive survey of English sacred music at its best.

Lewis - The souls of the righteous

Wesley - Wash me throughly

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1	Anon.	Rejoice in the Lord alway
2	Bairstow	Jesu, the very thought of thee
3	Blow	Salvator mundi
4	Boyce	O where shall wisdom be found?
5	Byrd	Ave verum Corpus
6	Byrd	Haec dies
7	Byrd	Justorum animae
8	Byrd	Sing joyfully
9	Elgar	They are at rest
10	Farrant or Hilton	Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
11	Gibbons	O clap your hands
12	Gibbons	O Lord, in thy wrath
13	Goss	These are they which follow the Lamb
14	Greene	Lord, let me know mine end
15	Hadley	My song is love unknown
16	Harris	Faire is the heaven
17	Harwood	O how glorious is the kingdom
18	Howells	Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks
19	Ireland	Greater love hath no man
20	Lewis	The souls of the righteous
21	Mendelssohn	Hear my prayer
22	Morley	Nolo mortem peccatoris
23	Naylor	Vox dicentis	Clama
24	Parsons	Ave Maria
25	Philips	Ascendit Deus
26	Purcell	Hear my prayer, O Lord
27	Purcell	I was glad when they said unto me
28	Purcell	Let mine eyes run down with tears
29	Purcell	Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?
30	Purcell	Remember not, Lord, our offences
31	Stainer	God so loved the world
32	Stainer	I saw the Lord
33	Stanford	Beati quorum via
34	Stanford	Coelos ascendit hodie
35	Stanford	How beauteous are their feet
36	Stanford	I heard a voice from heaven
37	Stanford	Justorum animae
38	Tallis	If ye love me
39	Tallis	Loquebantur variis linguis
40	Tallis	O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
41	Tallis	O nata lux de lumine
42	Taverner	Dum transisset Sabbatum
43	Tomkins	When David heard
44	Vaughan Williams	O how amiable
45	Vaughan Williams	O taste and see
46	Walton	Set me as a seal upon thine heart
47	Wesley	Blessed be the God and Father
48	Wesley	Praise the Lord, O my soul
49	Wesley	Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
50	Wesley	Wash me throughly
51	Wood	O thou the central orb