Video Information

• Choir: RSCM course in Canterbury
• Piece: Remember not, Lord, our offences
• Composer:  Henry Purcell
• Conductor:  Martin How
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Classical, Sacred, Cathedral Music
• Remember not, Lord, our offences,
  nor the offences of our forefathers
  neither take thou vengeance of our sins,
  but spare us, good Lord.
  Spare thy people,
  whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood,
  and b...  moreRemember not, Lord, our offences,
  nor the offences of our forefathers
  neither take thou vengeance of our sins,
  but spare us, good Lord.
  Spare thy people,
  whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood,
  and be not angry with us for ever.
  Spare us, good Lord.
  
  (Part of the Litany from the Book of Common Prayer, 1559)
  
  
  Sung at Canterbury Cathedral during our Royal School of Church Music Summer Course in 1986, under Martin How.
  I (David W Solomons) was one of the altos.
  John Huntley - a fellow alto - recorded this performance.
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