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Music for Christian classical education

An artwork and a recording each day, made for leisure

Periods

20th c. & modern

Music written since 1900. Several composers here, including Vaughan Williams, Howells and Pärt, drew on chant and Tudor church music.

7 recordings

Vilhelm Hammershøi

Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30, 1907

Art Institute of Chicago

Recordings

7 recordings, by composer

  1. A Hymn to the Virgin

    Benjamin Britten.

    Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer

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  2. Eclogue for piano and strings, Op. 10

    Gerald Finzi.

    Peter Donohoe (piano), Northern Sinfonia, Howard Griffiths

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  3. Like as the Hart

    Herbert Howells.

    Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Iain Farrington (organ), Christopher Robinson

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  4. Magnificat

    Arvo Pärt.

    Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier

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  5. Spiegel im Spiegel

    Arvo Pärt.

    Benjamin Hudson, Jürgen Kruse

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  6. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams.

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

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  7. Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”

    Ralph Vaughan Williams.

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze

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