Edmund Rubbra: Crucifixus Pro Nobis - Choral Music

The Choir of Merton College and Benjamin Nicholas here place Rubbra’s sacred music at the heart of his creative life, tracing through his career the composer’s conviction that faith was not a subject to be illustrated but a principle that governed musical thought itself. At the head of the programme is the first recording of Cantata di Camera (Crucifixus pro nobis), in which the choir is joined by tenor Benjamin Hulett and instrumentalists from Britten Sinfonia. In a fascinating contrast to Leighton’s setting of these words from the same year, Rubbra builds a single, continuous span, allowing musical ideas to accumulate in a deeply affecting work whose beauty lies in its patience, its glowing harmonic language and its atmosphere of sustained reflection.

1: Christ in the Cradle
2: Christ in the Garden
3: Christ in His Passion
4: Most Glorious Lord of Life
5: The Revival, Op. 58
6: Eternitie
7: Prelude
8: Fugue
9: The Virgin's Cradle Hymn, Op. 3
10: Kyrie
11: Gloria
12: Credo
13: Sanctus
14: Benedictus
15: Agnus Dei
16: Meditation, Op. 79
17: A Hymn to God the Father
18: Symphonic Prelude, Op. 164a
19: Magnificat
20: Nunc Dimittis

Composer: Edmund Rubbra

Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia

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