'Magnificat: Evening Canticles in B flat'
From the album ‘Stanford and Howells Remembered’

Composer Charles Villiers Stanford
Conductor John Rutter
Organ Wayne Marshall
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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LYRICS:
My soul doth magnify the Lord: and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded the lowliness of his hand-maiden. For behold, from hence-
forth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath magnified me:
and holy is his Name. And his mercy is on them that fear him: throughout all
generations. He hath shewed strength with his arm: he hath scattered the proud in
the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seat, and
hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he hath sent empty away. He remembering his mercy hath holpen his
servant Israel: as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed, for ever.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the
beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
(Luke 1, vv.46–55)

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in B flat
In his centenary address already referred to, Howells said of this, the earliest (1879) and most popular of Stanford’s canticle settings that he ‘achieved three triumphs in that early and astonishing work. First, he swept aside the pretentious, empty gaudiness of the Victorian organist-composer . . . Second, he brought the first-fruits of his near symphonic formal instincts to the setting of canticles that had for so long been dismembered by the earnest, lustreless treatment of countless mid- and late-Victorians. Third, to the vast and costly church organs he assigned a significant, vital, highly disciplined part’. Howells might have added that in both canticles Stanford showed his gift for warm, flowing melody, one of the secrets of this music’s enduring appeal. The Nunc dimittis is for tenors and basses only (except for its liturgical Gloria), a reminder that its words are those of Simeon.

Stanford and Howells Remembered
This recording is a choral tribute to the sacred music of two visionary composers: Stanford and Howells, who, among their other achievements, made distinctive, lasting and much-cherished contributions to the musical repertory of the English Church.

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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