AGNUS DEI

This richly varied collection of meditative sacred music takes it s name Agnus Dei from the opening item a setting for voices of Samuel Barber s celebrated and deeply expressive Adagio for Strings. The hauntingly melodic choral masterpieces that fill these two vinyls span five centuries and are the work of such composers as Bach Mozart Allegri Albinoni Fauré Rachmaninov Mendelssohn Brahms Elgar and from nearer our own time John Tavener and Henryk Górecki. They are performed by the choir of New College Oxford an exemplar of Britain s great choral tradition.