Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake - Richard Farrant, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
8. 'Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake'
From the album ‘Treasures of English Church Music’
Composer Richard Farrant
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
There is some doubt whether this favourite little piece was written by Farrant or by another Elizabethan composer, John Hilton (d. 1608). Like Farrant, Hilton was a cathedral musician who had an interest in the theatre, producing plays enacted by young choristers.
LYRICS:
Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake, lay not our sins to our charge, but forgive that is
past, and give us grace to amend our sinful lives: to decline from sin and incline to
virtue, that we may walk in a perfect heart before thee now and evermore.
Amen.
(John Bull, Christian Prayers and Holy Meditations, 1568)
Treasures of English Church Music
46 tracks of English a cappella church music, featuring John Rutter conducting the Cambridge Singers, and recorded in the inspiring setting of the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral.
“A marvellous collection taken from all ages of Church Music – a mix of the popular and the slightly rarer. This is recorded in Ely Cathedral and it seems to have projected itself into some wonderfully lyric pieces – the opening track of Parsons Ave Maria sets the scene for the rest of the music. This is the Cambridge Singers at their best…” Cathedral Music
John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.
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