Charles Gounod: Sacred Choral Works
Catalogue no: CRC 2848
Price: £13.00 (including postage and packaging)
This recording, containing only a small fraction of the corpus, does not attempt to provide an anthology or representative sample of his work, but rather focuses on his small-scale sacred choral works, including several which feature soprano soloist, Joanna Burton.
1. | O salutaris hostia in A flat for soprano solo, choir and organ (Chants sacrés 1876-8) |
2. | Regina caeli (5 vv; Chants sacrés) |
3. | Le Vendredi-Saint (4-6 vv; 1865) |
4. | O salutaris hostia in E flat (4-6 vv; Missa angeli custodes, 1873) |
5. | There is a greenhill far away, arr. for soprano solo, choir and organ by John E. West (1914) |
6. | Ave verum in E flat for choir and organ (Chants sacrés) |
7. | Miserere mei Deus for solo quartet, semi-chorus, choir and organ ad. lib. (1880) |
8. | Prière du Soire (4-6 vv; 1866) |
9. | Ave Maria Bach/Gounod arr. for soprano and violin solo by Henry Leslie (1873) |
10. | D’un coeur qui t’aime (double choir; 1851) |
11. | O salutaris hostia in C arr. for soprano & violin solo, choir and organ by Geoffrey Webber (2005) |
12. | Offertorium for organ solo (1876) |
13. | Per sanctissimam virginitatem for equal voices (Chants sacrés) |
14. | O salutaris hostia in E flat for equal voices (Chants sacrés) |
15. | From thy love as a Father for soprano solo, choir and organ (The Redemption, as published in The Musical Times 1886) |