THE KING’S SINGERS PATER NOSTER - Naxos · GRAMMY® Award winners in 2009, The King’s Singers are one of the world’s most celebrated ensembles. Their programming concept in

OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN 1. Plainsong..................................................................Pater noster 2. Heinrich Schütz ...................Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes 3. Mikołaj Zieleński ....................................Benedicimus Deum cœli HALLOWED BE THY NAME 4. Josquin des Prés .......................................................Pater noster 5. William Harris .............................................Holy is the True Light 6. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ....Sanctus (Missa Papae Marcelli)THY KINGDOM COME 7. Heinrich Schütz ..........................................................Vater unser 8. William Byrd ....................................................................Vigilate 9. Hans Leo Hassler .................................................Cantate DominoTHY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN 10. Igor Stravinsky .........................................................Pater noster

Francis Poulenc ...........Quatre Petites Prières de François dʼAssise 11. ......................................................................Salut, Dame sainte 12. ...............................................................Tout Puissant, très saint 13. .............................................................Seigneur, je vous en prie 14. ................................................................O mes très chers frères 15. Orlandus Lassus .....................................Domine Dominus nosterGIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD 16. Maurice Durufl é ..........................................................Notre Père 17. Charles Wood .........................................................Oculi omnium 18. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ...................Ego sum panis vivusAND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES, AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US 19. John Tavener ....................................................The Lordʼs Prayer 20. Henry Purcell ..........................Remember not, Lord, our offences 21. Tomás Luis de Victoria .............................................Popule meus AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL 22. Leonard Bernstein ............................................The Lordʼs Prayer 23. Richard Farrant .......................Lord, for Thy tender mercyʼs sake 24. Orlandus Lassus ........................................................Ad te levavi 25. Plainsong..................................................................Pater noster

Recorded at Cathedral of the Incarnation, Nashville, TN, USA on the 23rd and 24th March, 2012PRODUCER: John Hill | ENGINEERS: Kevin Edlin and John Hill | ASSISTANT ENGINEERS: Taylor Bray and Nicholas Morrow EDITOR: John Hill | BOOKLET NOTES: Tim Sharp | DESIGN: Ben Frey | Maggie Berry (Latocki Team Creative)

The sung texts and English translations are included in the booklet, and may also be accessed at www.naxos.com/libretti/572987.htm

GRAMMY® Award winners in 2009, The King’s Singers are one of the world’s most celebrated ensembles. Their programming concept in this disc is unique: built upon the individual clauses of The Lord’s Prayerindividual clauses of The Lord’s Prayerindividual clauses of , beginning and ending in plainchant, it ranges over The Lord’s Prayer, beginning and ending in plainchant, it ranges over The Lord’s Prayerthe centuries to explore the spiritually charged text. Chant is at the heart of the program, and each composer’s setting illuminates the others, shedding rich interpretative light on the poetic and devotional aspects of the prayer.

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