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  • Duruflé Requiem, Howells Requiem, and Valiant-for-Truth
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys
    John Scott, conductor
    Kirsten Sollek, mezzo-soprano
    Richard Lippold, baritone
    Frederick Teardo, organ
    Myron Lutzke, cello

    The mystery of Last Things has given rise to some of the most searching and personal music in the Western canon. On this CD we bring together two remarkably intimate funeral works, the Requiems of Herbert Howells and Maurice Duruflé, both of which experienced a complex genesis. A bridge between them is provided by Ralph Vaughan Williams's Valiant-for-Truth; Vaughan Williams, though often seen as the quintessence of Englishness, studied in France and his musical language was deeply marked by the experience. Valiant-for-Truth lies halfway between the two Requiems in time, and like these two works it addresses eschatological issues. Additional details are located in the CD Booklet.
    $20.00 - Buy

  • O Sing Unto the Lord
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys
    John Scott, conductor
    Frederick Teardo, organ
    with Concert Royal
    James Richman, artistic director

    Running through this disc of some of Purcell’s best-known sacred music is a sense of majesty: the greatness of God as the ultimate reflection of the power and grandeur of monarchy, along with its reverse image: the unworthiness of the servant to his master. The latter them appears in many psalm texts, with perhaps no better example than Psalm 96, [1] O SING UNTO THE LORD, possibly composed in 1688. With the King’s string band displayed prominently in an opening overture, the musical textures alternate continually from a full choral tutti to a quartet in the central section, surrounded by brief instrumental refrains and topped and tailed with Alleluias. They each depict the glory of God beside the insignificance of man-made gods.[ Read more by accessing the complete text of the CD booklet.]
    $20.00 - Buy

  • American Voices
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys
    John Scott, conductor
    Meg Bragle, mezzo-soprano
    Frederick Teardo, organ
    Anna Reinersman, harp
    Maya Gunji, percussion

    The choir sings American music from the last seven decades (post WWII), including works of Bernstein, Thompson, Copland, Muhly, Barber, Castellanos, Rorem, and Hancock. Read a full description in the CD Booklet.
    $20.00 - Buy

  • Rachmaninoff Vespers
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys
    John Scott, conductor
    Ory Brown, mezzo-soprano
    David Vanderwal, tenor

    Gramophone critic Laurence Vittes writes: “I can’t think of a recording that has a more involving spiritual aspect to it while still conveying Rachmaninoff’s musical glory.”
    $20.00 - Buy

  • Handel's Messiah with orchestration by Mozart
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, with Concert Royal
    John Scott, director
    Ava Pine, soprano
    Kirsten Sollek, alto
    Joseph Gaines, tenor
    Sumner Thompson, baritone

    From Malcomn Bruno’s description found in the CD booklet: ‘Mozart’s Messiah’ is perhaps the greatest example of one composer’s genius revisiting the work of a predecessor, revealing not only the differences of temperament and talent. It provided, above all, the foundation for the symphonic Messiah of the next century and a half…Only in the past forty years has an interest in period instruments and baroque style turned away from the ‘symphonic’ Messiah to performances with smaller choirs of specialist voices and baroque instruments, led from the continuo, closer to what the composer would have known and intended; though ironically it is this same period movement that has led to period performances of ‘Mozart’s Messiah’ in a late eighteenth-century style, with instruments appropriate to that time—bringing us full circle back to the Handel fever of van Swieten’s 1780s.
    $35.00 - Buy

  • Easter on Fifth Avenue
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, with The Saint Thomas Brass
    John Scott, conductor
    Jeremy S. Bruns, associate organist
    Christian Lane, assistant organist

    A collection of Easter favorites, as sung on Easter Day at Saint Thomas Church, from composers ranging from Byrd to Bertalot.
    $20.00 - Buy

  • Christmas on Fifth Avenue
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, with The Saint Thomas Brass
    John Scott, conductor
    Jeremy S. Bruns, organist

    Our all-time best-selling CD, this recording includes favorite hymns, such as O come, all ye faithful and Come thou, Reedemer of the earth, as well as gorgeous carols, including Ord's Adam lay ybounden and Tavener's The Lamb.
    $20.00 - Buy

  • American Music from Saint Thomas
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, with The Orchestra of St Luke's
    Gerre Hancock, conductor and master of choristers
    Judith Hancock, organist

    This recording includes Randall Thompson's Place of the Blest, Walter Piston's Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings, and Dan Locklair's Brief Mass.
    $20.00 - Buy

  • A Cappella II
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
    Gerre Hancock, conductor
    Judith Hancock, organist

    David Vernier of ClassicsToday.com writes: "Although I didn't have the pleasure of hearing A Cappella I, I know this excellent choir first-hand, hearing it live at its home-base, New York's Saint Thomas Church, and reviewing several of its previous CD releases... The point is, this new disc, featuring a variety of sacred works by 20th-century composers and arrangers, fully measures up to this revered choir's reputation for first-rate singing and for being what can only be described as America's finest English cathedral choir. Everything from the bright, prominent treble tone to the enunciation and inflection--even the choir's vestments--comes from the long-established Anglican tradition, and under the careful tutelage of director Gerre Hancock these choristers have nothing to apologize for, either in technique or in musicianly command of the repertoire."
    $20.00 - Buy

  • Fauré Requiem and Poulenc Concerto
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys with The Orchestra of Saint Luke’s under the direction of Gerre Hancock. Judith Hancock, Organ
    $20.00 - Buy

  • The Saint Thomas Tradition
    Music for a cappella voices and music for solo organ. The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys directed by Gerre Hancock,organ solos by Judith Hancock.
    $20.00 - Buy

  • Great Cathedral Anthems - XI
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
    Gerre Hancock, Master of Choristers
    Judith Hancock, Organist
    $20.00 - Buy

  • A Cappella from Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
    Gerre Hancock, Master of Choristers
    $20.00 - Buy

  • Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
    The Choir of Saint Thomas Church directed by Gerre Hancock.
    Patrick Allen, Organist
    $20.00 - Buy

  • Most Sacred Banquet
    French Music for the Church. The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
    Gerre Hancock, Master of Choristers
    Judith Hancock, Organist
    $20.00 - Buy

  • Anthem: The Choral Music of Edward Bairstow
    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys,
    Gerre Hancock, Master of Choristers
    Michael Kleinschmidt, Organist
    $20.00 - Buy

  • Unavailable Recordings

  • Rejoice In The Lamb
    Choral music of Benjamin Britten
    Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
    Gerre Hancock, Director