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The Road to Paradise

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The Road to Paradise

Britten:	A Hymn to the Virgin
Byrd:	Christe qui Lux
Gregorian Chant:	In paradisum
Harris, W:	Bring us, O Lord God
Holst:	Nunc dimittis
Howells:	Take him, earth, for cherishing English text: Helen Waddell
Parsons, R:	Ave Maria for 5 voices
Sheppard, J:	Media vita In pace in idipsum
Tallis:	Miserere nostri, motet for 7 voices, P. 207
Tavener:	Song for Athene
trad.:	Clangat pastor in tuba - Responsory & Prose for the feast of St. Thomas à Becket

Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh

A cappella choral music by English composers of the 16th is contrasted with works by 20th-century composers – this unique programme depicts the desire for spiritual enlightenment that was the driving force behind the medieval pilgrimage. In medieval times, making a pilgrimage to a holy place was the ambition of many Christians, for whom it was regarded as the symbolic enactment of a lifetime’s journey to a sacred resting place, undertaken through considerable physical effort.

BBC Music Magazine