The Choir of Lancing College, directed by Neil Cox, presents: SURREXIT - 500 Years of Choral Music for the Church’s Year.

The tracks on this CD represent the music that is sung in the College Chapel through the Church’s year. It features works by Tallis, Pratorius, Guerrero, Morales, Victoria and Michael Haller, and 20th century composers Vaughan Williams, Durufle, Elizabeth Poston, John Joubert, Richard Lloyd and Neil Cox.

The selection focuses on the wealth of a cappella, or unaccompanied music, from the great flowering of European sacred polyphony in the 16th century and on up, to present day. The CD includes 50 minutes of unaccompanied choral singing – a feat rarely achieved by a school choir. This is a tribute to the students, to their previous training (many have been members of cathedral choirs from the age of 8) and, of course, to the inspiration and dedication of Neil Cox. He is supported in his work by colleagues Nikki Dragonetti (a former chorister of Salisbury Cathedral), Damian Kerney (a former Head Chorister of St Paul’s Cathedral) and by singing teacher Martin Elliot (Westminster Abbey and Christ Church Oxford). Interspersed are chorale preludes based on seasonal hymns, played on the Chapel’s Frobenius organ by Neil Cox and two pupils, the Organ Scholar and a Fourth Form Music Scholar. 

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