Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh - Stainer: The Crucifixion (2024) [Hi-Res/MP3]

John Stainer made it his life’s work to reform and renew the standards of music in schools, parish churches, colleges and cathedrals up and down the land. His two most lasting legacies are our thriving cathedral choral tradition and this piece – The Crucifixion.

Intended to be accessible, and full of the zeal and emotion of the reforming High Church, Stainer’s meditation on the Passion was immediately taken up in both Britain and America, and is as popular today as ever.

Here, Duncan Ferguson and the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh are joined by two rising-star Scottish soloists and, in the hymns, by a nave-full of local young musicians and the cathedral’s own worshippers to create a true sense of the musical community spirit that the composer had in mind.

Tracklist
01. The Crucifixion: I. Recit. – "And they came to a place named Gethsemane"
02. The Crucifixion: II. The Agony
03. The Crucifixion: III. Processional to Calvary
04. The Crucifixion: IV. Recit. – "And when they were come"
05. The Crucifixion: V. Hymn – The Mystery of the Divine Humiliation (Cross of Jesus)
06. The Crucifixion: VI. Recit. – "He made Himself of no reputation"
07. The Crucifixion: VII. The Majesty of the Divine Humiliation
08. The Crucifixion: VIII. Recit. – "And as Moses lifted up the serpent"
09. The Crucifixion: IX. Chorus – God so loved the world
10. The Crucifixion: X. Hymn – Litany of the Passion (Holy Jesu, by Thy Passion)
11. The Crucifixion: XI. Recit. and Chorus – "Jesus said: ‘Father, forgive them’"
12. The Crucifixion: XII. Duet – So Thou liftest Thy divine petition
13. The Crucifixion: XII. Hymn – The Mystery of Intercession (Jesus, the Crucified, plead for me)
14. The Crucifixion: XIII. Recit. and Chorus – "And one of the malefactors"
15. The Crucifixion: XIV. Hymn – The Adoration of the Crucified (I adore Thee)
16. The Crucifixion: XV. Recit. and Chorus – "When Jesus therefore saw his mother"
17. The Crucifixion: XVI. Recit. – 'Is it nothing to you?"
18. The Crucifixion: XVII. Chorus – The Appeal of the Crucified
19. The Crucifixion: XVIII. Recit. and Chorus – "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished"
20. The Crucifixion: XIX. Hymn – For the love of Jesus (All for Jesus)