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Featured Recordings Compact | Full
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Come, Holy Ghost (Attwood) / Jesu, Word of God Incarnate (Elgar) ((Edison Bell) Electron 0.237 (10-inch), 78 RPM) August 1928
Featuring The Choir of Southwark Cathedral   Tom Thurley  
This 10-inch disc from Edison Bell (a company taken over by Decca in 1933) retailing at 3/= has two hymns sung by the Choir of Southwark Cathedral, London, under their organist & choirmaster Edgar Tom Cook, with organ accompaniment. According to The Sound Wave in Oct. 1928 in each case the first verse is sung by an unnamed solo boy and the second verse by the full choir. The Gramophone (see Aug. 1928, p. 111 & Sept. 1928, p.155) commented that the (unnamed) treble soloist in the Attwood was unsteady, but had a "lovely voice". A review in The Sound Wave (London, Aug. 1928, p. 470) added: "This appears to be the first record made of the fine choir and organ of Southwark Cathedral, the famous church at the foot of London Bridge. It is a highly creditable first attempt, but the acoustics have not been quite successfully negotiated. The solo boy, for instance, is recorded at very close quarters, which throws the genral ensemble rather out of balance, besides distorting some of his notes. The voice is a very good one, but the soloist is not named. The choir is first-rate and shows up to great advantage in Elgar's beautiful Ave Verum. Balance of tone is improved with soft needle, particularly in Come Holy Ghost." (The same journal enquired in Oct. 1928, p. 600, why the name of the soloist was not given on the label of this disc, but no more information was printed in the Nov. & Dec. issues.)
Matrices 11588-2 & 11589-3 rec. Apl 1928.
  Side A -   Come, Holy Ghost (Attwood)   Hymn
  Side B -   Jesu, Word of God Incarnate (Elgar)   Motet "Ave Verum", op. 2, no. 1 (1887)
The Choir of Southwark Cathedral - The Message of Christmas
The Message of Christmas (Priory PRCD580, CD)
Featuring The Choir of Southwark Cathedral  
22 tracks
  1.   Ord: Adam lay y-bounden  
  2.   Ledger: Adam lay y-bounden  
  3.   Warlock: Adam lay y-bounden  
  4.   Arr. Willcocks: The Lord at first did Adam make  
  5.   Arr. Pettman: Gabriel’s message  
  6.   Hadley: I sing of a maiden  
  7.   Berkeley: I sing of a maiden  
  8.   Anon: There is no rose  
  9.   Rutter: Shepherd’s Pipe Carol  
10.   Darke: In the bleak mid-winter  
11.   Arr. Willcocks: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day  
12.   Gardner: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day  
13.   Maxim: Lute-book lullaby  
14.   Cornelius: Three Kings  
15.   Howells: Here is the little door  
16.   Trad: Coventry Carol  
17.   Leighton: Lully, lulla  
18.   Mathias: Wassail Carol  
19.   Tavener: The Lamb  
20.   Arr. Ledger: Sussex Carol  
Films and Videos Compact | Full
The Choir of Southwark Cathedral - Best Bits of Mr. Bean
Best Bits of Mr. Bean (Polygram , DVD) 1996
Featuring Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford   The Choir of Southwark Cathedral  
Snippets from 11 episodes of the TV series. Theme music sung by the Southwark Cathedral Choir, no appearance. Later sung by the Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. The title music "Ecce homo" ("Behold the man"), like many TV themes by Howard Goodall, was originally written as a serious piece of church choral music. New lyrics (in Latin) were written for "Mr. Bean": "Ecce homo qui est faba. Vale homo qui est faba" ("Behold the man who is a bean. Farewell the man who is a bean").
  1.   vale homo qui est faba  
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Books Compact | Full
The Choir of Southwark Cathedral - Country Cathedral Organist Looks Back, A
Country Cathedral Organist Looks Back, A ( , Book)
Featuring The Choir of Southwark Cathedral  
by David Gedge. Gedge paints vivid pictures of his life from 1939 to 1978, in post-World War II London, his life as chorister at Southwark Cathedral, his student days at the RAM, and his professional and personal life.
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