Choral Highlights 2019 Album Sampler

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for Andrew Nethsingha and the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
A Prayer to St John the Baptist
Guido d’Arezzo (c.991–c.1033): A Hymn to St John the Baptist
Thomas Merton (1915–68), adapted by Nicholas Dakin: St John the Baptist
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Duration: 4 mins
Commissioned by the Master and Fellows of St John’s College, Cambridge, and first performed during the Advent Carol Service on 24 November 2018
by the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, directed by Andrew Nethsingha, with organist Glen Dempsey.
Music © Oxford University Press 2019
Printed in Great Britain
‘St John the Baptist’ by Thomas Merton from The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton © 1948 by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1977, by
the Trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MUSIC DEPARTMENT, GREAT CLARENDON STREET, OXFORD OX2 6DP
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