Recording
Viva Voce, with organist Andrew Linn of St Matthew's Church, Carver Street, Sheffield, have recently released a CD entitled Bach and Beyond (reviewed here). Including three centuries of organ chorales, many of which are also sung by the choir, it features the Goetze and Gwynn Organ of St Matthew's, which was installed in the church in 1992. Composers featured on the disc include J. S. Bach, Brahms, Leighton, and Praetorius. A complete track listing is below.
If you would like to purchase a copy of this CD, please send a cheque for £12 (£10 for the CD, £2 postage & packing) to Andrew Linn at the following address:
Professor Andrew Linn
c/o School of Language and Linguistics
University of Sheffield
5 Shearwood Road
Sheffield S10 2TD
Please make cheques payable to St Matthew's P.C.C.
Tracks on the CD:
(To hear clips of the tracks (mp3 format) in blue, click on the title.| 1 | Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme | (J. S. Bach - BWV 645 |
| 2 | Sleepers, wake! the watch-cry pealeth | Philipp Nicolai, harm. Bach |
| 3-7 | Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her | J. S. Bach - BWV 769 |
| 8 | From east to west, from shore to shore | Schumann's Geistliche Lieder 1539, harm.Bach |
| 9 | Vater unser im Himmelreich | J. S. Bach - BWV 682 |
| 10 | O quickly come, dread Judge of all | Schumann's Geistliche Lieder 1539, harm.Bach |
| 11 | In dulci jubilo | J. S. Bach - BWV 729 |
| 12 | In dulci jubilo | Trad., harm. Bach |
| 13 | Es ist ein Ros entsprungen | Johannes Brahms |
| 14 | A Great and mighty wonder |
Trad., harm. Michael Praetorius, arr. Richard Marlow |
| 15 | O Sacred head, sore wounded |
Trad., harm. Bach |
| 16 | Herzlich thut mich verlangen 1st setting | Johannes Brahm |
| 17 | In thy most bitter passion | Harm. Bach St Matthew Passion |
| 18 | Herzlich thut mich verlangen 2nd setting | Johannes Brahms |
| 19 | My days are few, O fail not | Arr. Geoffrey Shaw |
| 20 | O Welt, ich muss dich lassen | Johannes Brahms |
| 21 | O World, I now must leave thee | Trad., harm. Bach St Matthew Passion |
| 22 | Rockingham | Kenneth Leighton |
| 23 | When I survey the wondrous Cross |
Samuel Webbe |
| 24 | Easter Hymn | Richard Popplewell |
| 25 | Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluya! |
Lyra Davidica 1708, arr. Linn |