Music
There is a strong musical tradition at the Minster. The building has the largest collection of medieval musician carvings in Europe, a 200 year old organ built by Snetzler, a choral tradition going back to the plainsong of the medieval Vicars Choral, and currently a flourishing diversity of traditional and contemporary music under the Director of Music Robert Poyser, who was appointed in March 2009.
A CD of choral and organ music recorded in May 2011 is now available from the Minster Shop.
CD programme:
1. Sing joyfully – William Byrd (1540-1623)
2. Let all the world in every corner sing – Craig Sellar Lang (1891-1971)
3. Hymn – Love divine, all loves excelling
4. Ave Maria – Robert Parsons (1535-72)
5. Nun danket alle Gott – Sigfrid Karg- Elert (1877-1933)
6. Miserere mei, Deus – Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
(solo group: Angus Champion, Luca Myers, Felix Dickenson, Joseph Mathieson, Lindsey Wood, Julian Neaum)
7. O thou the central orb – Charles Wood (1866-1926)
8. Lead, kindly light – Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
9. Hymn – Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to heaven and voices raise
10. Sicut cervus – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c 1525–94)
11. The sun shall be no more thy light – Maurice Greene (1696-1727)
12. March on a theme by Handel – Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
13. Zadok the priest – George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
14. Hymn – Praise my soul the King of heaven
(descant Robert Poyser)
