RSCM Millennium Youth Choir

The RSCM Millennium Youth Choir's third CD is entitled The Heart's Voice and includes a wonderful selection of music by contemporary church music composers associated with the RSCM, conducted by David Ogden accompanied by organist Daniel Moult.

The main work is James Whitbourn's setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, 'The Canticles of Mary and Simeon' scored for choir, organ and solo viola, which the choir commissioned and premiered in 2011. It also includes anthems by Thomas Hewitt Jones, Malcolm Archer, Philip Moore, David Ogden, John Rutter and the young composer Owain Park. Owain's piece, Let Thine Heart Keep Thy Commandments was runner-up in a recent composition competition run by the Kings James Bible Trust and the RSCM.

The winning work from the same competition, Christopher Totney's The Mystery of Christ, is also included on the CD. The choir's organist Daniel Moult contributes a recording of an astonishingly virtuosic work by Iain Farrington, 'Livewire'. The CD was recorded in the chapel of Tonbridge School.

1 Sing we merrily - Sidney Campbell (1909-1974)
2 Teach us, good Lord* - David Ogden (b.1966)
3 Hail, gladdening light* - Alan Spedding (b.1938)
4 Let thine heart keep my commandments* - Owain Park (b.1993)
5 It is a thing most wonderful - Philip Moore (b.1943)
6 Canticle of Mary* - James Whitbourn (b.1963)
7 Canticle of Simeon* - James Whitbourn
8 O Lord, thou has searched me out - John Rutter (b.1945)
9 The Mystery of Christ* - Christopher Totney (b.1982)
10 My beloved spake* - Thomas Hewitt Jones (b.1984)
11 Live Wire* - Iain Farrington (b.1977)
12 Vox Christi* - Philip Wilby (b.1949)
13 Peace I leave with you - René Clausen (b. 1953)
14 Sing we merrily* - Malcolm Archer (b.1952)

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Out of the stillness (2007)

The RSCM's Millennium Youth Choir spent its Easter Course 2007 working with David and John Rutter, recording a CD entitled Out of the stillness for the RSCM 80th anniversary celebrations. Featuring the music of eleven living composers alongside pieces by 20th century composers associated with the RSCM, the CD is available for purchase online.

Listen to a podcast which includes excerpts from the CD as well as interviews with some of the singers, David Ogden and John Rutter

The CD includes the tracks: Jubilate Wilby • Out of the stillness Shephard • Living in a holy city Hatfield • Were you there arr. Ogden • They that go down to the sea in ships Sumsion • Wondrous cross Wilby • The Reproaches Sanders • Done is a battell on the dragon blak Kelly • Christ has no body Ogden • Prayer of St Richard of Chichester Archer • Lo! God is here! Moore • Behold the tabernacle of God Harris • Gaelic Blessing Rutter • Choristers’ Prayer Harper • Be thou my vision Chilcott • The true glory Aston • Jubilate Shephard • God be in my head Nicholson

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A Land of Pure Delight (2002)

Director: Gordon Stewart
Organ: Timothy Byram-Wigfield

Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit arr. Bob Chilcott
Tantum ergo Déodat de Séverac
Were you there? arr. Bob Chilcott
Take this moment John Bell
A touching place John Bell
Magnificat (‘The Southwell Service’) Andrew Carter
Pater Noster Charles Villiers Stanford
O Lord of every constellation Paul Leddington Wright
Pueri Hebraeorum Tomas Luis de Victoria
There is a land of pure delight Grayston Ives
Come, labour on T. Tertius Noble
Peccantem me quotidie Cristobel Morales
Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen arr. Bob Chilcott
The last journey John Bell
Civitas sancti tui William Byrd
Be still for the presence of the Lord arr. Robert Ramskill
Nunc Dimittis (‘The Southwell Service’) Andrew Carter
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy (‘Corvedale’) Maurice Bevan

Available from Lammas Records

Recordings

New CD: The Heart's Voice to be released 4 April 2013

Out of the stillness (2007)

A Land of Pure Delight (2002)