Westminster Cathedral Choir discography

The discography of Westminster Cathedral Choir includes many award-winning recordings, among them the 1998 Gramophone Award Record of the Year for Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir and Ildebrando Pizzetti's Requiem.

Discography

George Malcolm (musician)

• Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories.[1]

Stephen Cleobury

• Gregorian Chant from Westminster Cathedral

David Hill

• Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
• Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli & Missa brevis (CDA66266)
• Praetorius: Christmas Music' (CDH55446) with The Parley of Instruments
• Tomas Luis de Victoria: Ave maris stella & O quam gloriosum' (CDA66114)[2]
• Victoria: Missa Vidi speciosam & other sacred music' (CDH55358)
• Victoria: O magnum mysterium & Ascendens Christus in altum' (CDA66190)
• Victoria: Requiem (CDA66250)
• Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (CDA66304)

James O'Donnell (organist)

• Adeste fideles, carols including "Adeste fideles" (O come, all ye faithful) by John Francis Wade (CDA66668)
• Anerio: Requiem (CDH55213)
• Dupré, Louis Vierne & Widor: Choral Music
• Duruflé: Requiem & Messe cum jubilo (CDA66757)
• Exultate Deo (CDA66850)
• Francisco Guerrero:
  • Missa De la batalla escoutez & other works with His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts
  • Missa Sancta et immaculata & other sacred music' (CDH55313)
• Janáček & Kodály: Masses (CDA67147)
• Josquin: Missa Pange lingua & other works (CDH55374)
• Lassus: Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera (CDA66688) with His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
• Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir; Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem (CDA67017)
• Masterpieces of Mexican Polyphony (CDH55317)
• Masterpieces of Portuguese Polyphony (CDH55229)
• Cristóbal de Morales: Missa Queramus cum pastoribus & other sacred music (CDH55276)
• Mortuus est Philippus Rex including Missa Philippus Rex Hispaniae by Bartolomé de Escobedo (CDH55248)
• Palestrina:
  • Missa Aeterna Christi munera & other sacred music (CDH55368)
  • Missa De beata virgine & Missa Ave Maria (CDH55420)
  • Missa Ecce ego Johannes & other sacred music (CDH55407)
  • Missa O rex gloriae & Missa Viri Galilaei (CDH55335)
• Panis angelicus - motets by Mendelssohn, Rossini and others (CDA66669)
• Francisco de Peñalosa: Masses (CDH55326)
• Poulenc: Mass & Motets (CDH55448)
• Stravinsky: Mass & Symphony of Psalms (CDA66437) with City of London Sinfonia
• Victoria:
  • Missad dum complerentur & other sacred music (CDH55452)
  • Missa trahe me post te & other sacred music (CDH55376)

Martin Baker

• Byrd: The three Masses (CDA68038)
• Palestrina: Missa Hodie Christus natus est & other sacred music (CDH55367)
• Bingham & Vaughan Williams: Mass (CDA67503)
• Brahms & Rheinberger: Mass (CDA67559)
• Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral (CDA67522)
• From the vaults of Westminster Cathedral (CDA67707)
• Langlais: Missa Salve regina & Messe solennelle (CDH55444)
• Alonso Lobo: Lamentations & other sacred music (CDA68106)
• MacMillan: Mass & other sacred music (CDA67219)
• MacMillan: Tenebrae Responsories & other choral works (CDA67970)
• Maxwell Davies: Mass & other choral works (CDA67454)
• Miserere - including Miserere mei, Deus by George Malcolm (1917-1997) (CDA67938)
• Palestrina: Lamentations (CDA67610)
• Palestrina: Missa Dum complerentur & other music for Whitsuntide (CDH55449)
• Palestrina: Missa Tu es Petrus & Missa Te Deum laudamus (CDA67785)
• Victoria: Ave regina caelorum & other sacred music (SACDA67479)
• Victoria: Missa De Beata Maria Virgine & Missa Surge propera' (CDA67891)
• Sheppard: Media vita & other sacred music (CDA68187)

References

1. Heather Wiebe Britten's Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar ... 2012 0521194679 p.61 "Its opposite in the English choral scene was the Westminster Cathedral Choir under George Malcolm, of which Britten was an unstinting admirer. Indeed, it had been his first choice for the 1963 recording of the War Requiem."
2. Elizabeth A. Davis A Basic Music Library: Essential Scores and Sound Recordings 0838934617 - 1997 Westminster Cathedral Choir/David Hill Hyperion: CDA66190. [With his Missa Ascendens Christus in altum and selected motets]. 3202.4 Missa O quam gloriosum. (Westminster Cathedral Choir/David Hill). Hyperion: CDA66114.