John Scott: St Paul's Cathedral Choir - The English Anthem, Vol. 8

John Scott�s last recording with St Paul�s�he took up his appointment as Organist and Director of Music at St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, in the autumn of 2004�brings us the eighth (but not necessarily final �) volume in the choir�s critically acclaimed English Anthems series.Throughout the project, the �bread-and-butter� Victoriana of the rich Anglican repertory has been complemented by inspirational discoveries and commissions. This new disc presents anthems by Wesley, Bairstow, Stanford, Stainer, Goss and Parry alongside the sixteenth-century masterpiece Libera nos by John Sheppard (once thought to have been sacked by Magdalen College Oxford for stealing rival choirs� choristers and hauling them back to the city in chains�the story turns out to concern a similarly named colleague) and new works by John Rutter, the Cathedral�s former organist Christopher Dearnley and John Scott himself.Also included is the startlingly original�immediately appealing�and prize-winning Praise by Dobrinka Tabakova, a work premiered at St Paul�s as part of the Queen�s Golden Jubilee celebrations.