http://www.leasingers.co.uk The Lea Singers' latest CD -- 'Jubilea' -- features almost exclusively English music (with the exception of the final item -- the 'Ave maris Stella' from the Monteverdi Vespers); and the English music represented ranges from...  morehttp://www.leasingers.co.uk The Lea Singers' latest CD -- 'Jubilea' -- features almost exclusively English music (with the exception of the final item -- the 'Ave maris Stella' from the Monteverdi Vespers); and the English music represented ranges from sacred and secular favourites -- Howells' 'Like as the hart' and Sullivan's 'The long day closes' -- to works commissioned from contemporary composers (Judith Bingham's 1997 work 'Gleams of a remoter world' and a setting of the Nunc Dimittis, written in 2010 by one of the choir's own basses, John Pickard). The CD is expertly conducted by the choir's musical director, James Sherlock and guest instrumentalists are 17-year old Edward Picton-Turbevill on the organ and award-winning young cellist James Barralet playing the solo part in Sir John Tavener's 'Svyati' for cello and choir. The vocal blend throughout is first-rate and the choral sound is refined. There are a number of vocal solos on offer in many of the pieces and all are performed with aplomb -- I parti...    less

Alma redemptoris mater Cecilia McDowall (1951-) Trinity Church, NYC Downtown Voices (http://DowntownVoices.net) Stephen Sands, conductor (http://StephenSands.net) Latin Lyrics Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli Porta manes, et Stella maris...  moreAlma redemptoris mater Cecilia McDowall (1951-) Trinity Church, NYC Downtown Voices (http://DowntownVoices.net) Stephen Sands, conductor (http://StephenSands.net) Latin Lyrics Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli Porta manes, et Stella maris, succurre cadenti, Surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti, Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere. English Translation Sweet Mother of the Redeemer, the passage to the heavens, the gate of the spirits of the dead, and the star of the sea, aid the falling. Mother of Him who cares for the people: you who brought forth the wonder of Nature, your Creator. Virgin before and after, who received of Gabriel with joyful greeting, have pity on us sinners.  less