One Equal Music CD

St Peter’s Singers innovative project One Equal Music has been achieved in just six short months we’ve gone from concept to completion, including rehearsing, funding, recording, designing, manufacturing and performing.

The intention was to bring spiritual, cathedral music to a secular, indeed commercial setting, and to people who for one reason or another might not otherwise hear it. The phrase ‘One Equal Music’, taken from John Donne’s prayer Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening and set so brilliantly by Sir William Harris in the CD’s title track, seemed to sum up our aspirations to showcase music of harmonic perfection, spiritual import and universal appeal. Above all we hope that we have chosen music that is accessible, beautiful and moving.

 

Of the fifteen tracks, nine are by living composers. They include works by three composers local to our roots in Yorkshire: Edward Bairstow, (who wrote Let all mortal flesh for the choir of Leeds Parish Church – now Leeds Minster – where we are based); his chorister, student and successor at York Minster, Francis Jackson, and then Jackson’s successor Philip Moore. Jackson and Moore have both worked with St Peter’s Singers.

 

 

You can find out more about the One Equal Music Project and Puchase the CD from our dedicated website: oneequalmusic.org.uk