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  • Complete Herbert Howells Anthems  Vol. 1                                                   Priory PRCD 1119
Priory Records have commenced a new set of the complete Herbert Howells Anthems. The music is to be recorded by the Choir of Lincoln Cathedral under Aric Prentice, with Colin Walsh as the organist. The first CD (PRCD 1119) has recently been released and includes the following:
Latin Nunc Dimittis; Haec Dies; Salve Regina; Regina Coeli; O Salutaris Hostia; Blessed are the dead; We have heard with our ears; My eyes for beauty pine;  Lord who createdst Man; My master hath a garden; When first thine eies unveil; Sing Lullaby; Here is the little door; A Spotless Rose;  Let God arise; Like as the hart; O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; Even such is time. 
Choir of Lincoln Cathedral; Colin Walsh (organ).  Conducted by Aric Prentice.  Recorded 2015
  • Howells Collegium Regale & other choral works                                        Hyperion CDA 68105 DDD
Collegium Regale settings: Te Deum & Jubilate; Mag & Nunc; Holy Communion
Behold, O God, our Defender; I love all beauteous things; Psalm 121 & 122; Organ Rhapsody No. 1 in Db major.
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Eleanor Kornas & Owain Park (organ); Directed by Stephen Layton.  Recorded 2015 in Coventry Cathedral
  • When first thine eies unveil                                                                                     SOMM CD 0140 DDD
Walking in the Snow; Long, long ago; Levavi oculos meos; I Youth is Pleasure; Before me, careless Lying; O Salutaris Hostia; Mass in the Dorian Mode; Salve Regina; My eyes for beauty pine; When first thine eies unveil; O Mortal Man; Haec Dies; Regina Coeli; Latin Nunc Dimittis; Antiphon.
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir;  Jonathan Stamp (organ) Directed by Paul Spicer. Recorded 2013
  • Herbert Howells : Requiem & other choral works                    Hyperion CDA 67914 DDD
A Hymn  for St Cecilia; Salve Regina; Gloucester Service Mag & Nunc; Take him, earth, for cherishing; St Paul’s Service Mag & Nunc; Requiem; All my hope on God is founded.
Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge; Simon Bland & Jeremy Cole (organ); conducted by Stephen Layton. Recorded 2011 partly in Lincoln Minster.
  • Howells The Winchester Service                                                                           Hyperion CDA 67853 DDD
Jubilate Deo (St Peter ad Vincula); Thee will I love; the Winchester Service Mag & Nunc; Rhapsody No. 4; Come, my soul; Te Deum (St Mary Redcliffe); Coventry Antiphon; A Flourish for a Bidding; Antiphon; The fear of the Lord; Exultate Deo.
Winchester Cathedral Choir; Simon Bell (organ).   Conducted by Andrew Lumsden. Recorded 2010
  • Durufle, Howells and Vaughan Williams                                        Saint Thomas Recordings DDD
Requiem (also Durufle Requiem and RVW Valiant for truth).
St Thomas New York Choir of Men and Boys; Fredrick Teardo (organ) directed by John Scott. Recorded 2010
  • St John’s Magnificat:  Choral works by Herbert Howells                        Chandos CHAN 10587 DDD
A sequence for St Michael; By the Waters of Babylon; A Spotless Rose; Mag & Nunc Gloucester Service; Psalm 142; A Grace for 10 Downing St; One thing have I desired of the Lord; Like as the hart; Mag & Nunc St John’s Service; Salve Regina; Te Deum (Coll Reg).
Choir of St John’s College Cambridge, Paul Whelan (bar); David Adams (violin); Alice Neary (‘cello); Timothy Ravalde (organ); directed by Andrew Nethsingha.  Recorded 2009
  • Choral Music by Herbert Howells                                                       Signum Classics SIGCD 190 DDD
The Summer is coming; Sweetest of Sweets; Sing Lullaby; One thing have I desired; A Spotless Rose; Antiphon; Walking in the Snow; A Grace for 10 Downing Street; Here is the little door; God be in my head; Long, long ago; Te Deum (Coll Reg); Jubilate (Coll Reg); Mag & Nunc (Dallas Canticles); A Hymn for St Cecilia.
Rodolfus Choir; Tom Winpenny (organ) conducted by Ralph Allwood. Recorded 2009
  • Howells from Hereford                                                                                               Regent REGCD 316 DDD
Te Deum & Jubilate (Coll Reg); O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; Gloucester service Mag & Nunc; We have heard with our ears; Like as the hart; Let God arise; Hereford Service Mag & Nunc; Worcester Service Mag & Nunc; Coll Reg Mag & Nunc.
Choir of Hereford Cathedral; Peter Dyke (organ); directed by Geraint Bowen.  Recorded 2009
  • I Love All Beauteous Things                                                                    Signum Classics SIG 0151 DDD
Thee will I love; Hills of the North; I love all beauteous things; Missa Aedis Christi; This World, my God, is held within your hand; A Maid Peerless; Sweetest of Sweets; O Holy City seen of John; Six Short pieces for organ.
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin Tristan Russcher (organ) conducted by Judy Martin. Recorded 2008
  • The complete Morning & Evening canticles of Herbert Howells Vol. 1   Priory PRCD 745 DDD
Mag & Nunc settings: Setting in G (1918); Sarum (1966); Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense (1957); York (1973); for Men’s Voices (1941); New College Oxford(1949?); Collegium Regale (1945)
The Collegiate Singers;  Richard Moorhouse (organ) Directed by Andrew Millinger. Recorded 2000
  • The complete Morning & Evening canticles of Herbert Howells Vol. 2   Priory PRCD 759 DDD
Mag & Nunc settings: Worcester (1951); Magdalen College Oxford (1970); Chichester (1967); Latin Nunc Dimittis (1914?); Evening service for unison voices (1924); Gloucester (1946); Westminster(1957).  Anthems: Behold, O God , our Defender (1952); A Hymn for St Cecilia (1961); Salve Regina (1916).  
The Collegiate Singers;  Richard Moorhouse (organ) Directed by Andrew Millinger. Recorded 2000
  • The complete Morning & Evening canticles of Herbert Howells Vol. 3   Priory PRCD 782 DDD
Mag & Nunc settings: B minor (1955); for Men’s voices (1935); Winchester (1967); St Augustine’s (1967); Dallas Canticles (1975); Hereford (1969); St Pauls’ (1951)
The Collegiate Singers;  Richard Moorhouse (organ) Directed by Andrew Millinger. Recorded 2002
  • The complete Morning & Evening canticles of Herbert Howells Vol. 4   Priory PRCD 783 DDD
Morning canticles: Te Deum & Benedictus for St George’s Chapel Winds r (1952); Te Deum & Benedictus for Canterbury Cathedral (1946); Te Deum for St Mary Redcliffe Bristol (1965); West Ridings Cathedrals Festival Te Deum (1974); Te Deum, Benedictus & Jubilate in E flat for Unison voices (1924); Washington Cathedral (1977)
The Collegiate Singers;  Richard Moorhouse (organ) Directed by Andrew Millinger. Recorded 2003
  • The complete Morning & Evening canticles of Herbert Howells Vol. 5   Priory PRCD 784 DDD
Disc 1: Coll Reg Te Deum & Jubilate (1944); Te Deum for Searle Wright at St Paul’s Chapel Columbia University  USA (1966); Te Deum, Benedictus & Jubilate(date unknown ~ 1950)
Disc 2: The Coventry Mass (1968); The Office of Holy Communion Collegium Regale (1956)
The Collegiate Singers;  Richard Moorhouse (organ) Directed by Andrew Millinger. Recorded 2004
  • Howells Choral Music                                                                                                  Hyperion CDA 67494 DDD
A Sequence for St Michael;  A Hymn for St Cecilia; O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; Te Deum and Benedictus (St George’s Chapel Windsor); I love all beauteous things; Salve Regina; New College Oxford Mag & Nunc; A Spotless Rose; Sing Lullaby; Here is the little door; Coll Reg Mag & Nunc. 
Choir of Wells Cathedral; Rupert Gough (organ); directed by Malcolm Archer. Recorded 2004
  • Best Loved Hymns                                           EMI 7243 5 57026 2 3 
Includes the only recording of the Fanfares arrangement by Howells (completed by Christopher Palmer) of the hymn "All my hope on God is founded". (Also includes a number of hymn/descant arrangements by John Rutter).
Choir of King's College Cambridge, The Wallace Collection (brass) and Benjamin Bayl & Thomas Williamson (organ scholars) conducted by Stephen Cleobury.                                                                                        Recorded March 2000
  • Howells: Evening Canticles                                                                             Herald HAVPCD 249 DDD
Sarum service (1966); St Augustine’s (1967); Winchester (1967); Worcester(1951) ; Gloucester (1946); Service in B minor(1956)
The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge.  Andrew Timms & Timothy Roberton (organ) directed by Sarah MacDonald.  Recorded 2000
  • Howells English Choral Music                                                                                 Naxos 8.554659 DDD
Mag & Nunc : St Paul’s service; Like as the hart; Paean (organ); Requiem; Long, long ago; Office of the Holy Communion Collegium Regale; Rhapsody No. 3 (organ); Take Him Earth for cherishing.
Choir of St John’s College Cambridge; Ian Farrington (organ) conducted by Christopher Robinson. Recorded 1999
  • O Magnum Mysterium 20th Century Carols                                                    Hyperion CDA 66925 DDD
Includes A Spotless Rose; Sing Lullaby; Here is the Little Door
Polyphony conducted by Stephen Layton. Recorded 1996
  • Howells Choral Works                                                                                                 Chandos CHAN 9458 DDD
Behold, O God, our defender; Three Carol-Anthems (Here is the little door; Sing Lullaby; A Spotless Rose); Te Deum (St Mary Redcliffe); The Scribe; Thee will I love; Blessed are the dead; Even such is time; Inheritance; Haec Dies; God is gone up.
The Finzi Singers conducted by Paul Spicer. Andrew Lumsden (organ).  Recorded 1994
  • Howells & Leighton Sacred Choral Music                                      ASV CD DCA 851
Chichester Service Mag & Nunc; A Hymn for St Cecilia; Salve Regina; O Salutaris Hostia; My eyes for beauty pine; Like as the hart Desireth the Waterbrooks.
Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford; David Went (organ) directed by Matthew Owens. Recorded 1993?
  • I will lift up mine eyes: Sacred Music by Stanford & Howells   Collegium Records COLCD 118 DDD
Mag from the Gloucester Service; Like as the hart; The fear of the Lord; Requiem; Long, long ago; All my hope on God is founded.
The Cambridge Singers; Wayne Marshall (organ)   Directed by John Rutter.  Recorded 1992 partly in Ely Cathedral
  • Howells & Stevens                                                                                                         Chandos CHAN 9021 DDD
Mass in the Dorian Mode; O Salutaris Hostia; Sweetest of sweets; Come, my soul; Antiphon; Nunc Dimittis (Latin); Regina Coeli
The Finzi Singers conducted by Paul Spicer. Recorded 1991
  • Howells & Bax Choral works                                                                                    Chandos CHAN 9139 DDD
Two Madrigals (In Youth is Pleasure ; Before me, Careless Lying); Long, long ago; The Summer is coming; Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
The Finzi Singers conducted by Paul Spicer. Recorded 1991
  • Hail Gladdening Light: Music of the English Church               Collegium Records COLCD 113 DDD
Latin Nunc Dimittis
The Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter. Recorded 1991
  • Voices from Heaven                                                                                                      Regis RRC 1341DDD
Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense Mag & Nunc; Requiem  (also includes Durufle Requiem and four motets)
St John’s College Chapel Choir; Alexander Martin (organ); conducted by George Guest.  Recorded 1991. Originally on Nimbus as “The sound of St John’s”, and later re-released as  “Voices from Heaven” 
  • Howells & Vaughan Williams : English romantic choral music          Chandos CHAN 9019 DDD
A Sequence for St Michael; The House of the Mind; Requiem
The Finzi Singers; Harry Bicket organ; conducted by Paul Spicer. Recorded 1990
  • Light’s Glittering Morn: Washington Cathedral                        EMI Classics CDC 7 54134 2
Includes Te Deum for Washington Cathedral (World premiere recording).
The combined Choirs of Washington National Cathedral and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Robert Lehman (organ)   Directed by Douglas Major. Recorded 1990
  • A Celebration of Herbert Howells                                                                         Argo 430 205-2DDD
Te Deum (Coll Reg); Office of Holy Communion; Preces & Responses; Psalms 121 & 122; Mag & Nunc (Coll Reg); Take him, earth, for Cherishing; Rhapsody No. 3
Choir of King’s College Cambridge; Gregory Moore (Cantor); Simon Williams (ten); Peter Barley; (organ); Stephen Cleobury (conductor and organist).  Recorded 1989
  • The Holy Eucharist                                                                                                         Priory PRCD 270 DDD
Collegium Regale Holy Communion Service; Paean
Choir of St Edmundsbury Cathedral  Organ Mervyn Cousins Directed by Paul Trepte. Recorded  1988
  • Herbert Howells Choral & Organ Music Vol. 1                                              CRD 3454 DDD
A Sequence for St Michael; De la Mare’s Pavane; A hymn for St Cecilia; Walton’s Toye; House of the Mind; Flourish for a Bidding; New College Service Mag & Nunc; St Louis comes to Clifton; O pray for the peace of Jerusalem; Jacob’s Brawl; King of Glory.
Choir of New College Oxford, Organ scholar David Burchell; Director Dr Edward Higginbottom. Recorded 1987
  • Herbert Howells Choral & Organ Music Vol. 2                                              CRD 3455 DDD
Behold, O God, our Defender; Missa Aedis Christi; Psalm Prelude Set 1 No. 1; Preludio “Sine Nomine”; Sing Lullaby; Here is the little door; A Spotless Rose; Paean; Where wast thou?
Choir of New College Oxford, Organ scholar David Burchell; Director Dr Edward Higginbottom. Recorded 1988 & 1990
  • Herbert Howells: The St Paul’s Service & other Cathedral music      Hyperion CDA 66269 DDD
Te Deum & Jubilate(Coll Reg; Master Tallis’s Testament; Like as the hart; Behold, O God, Our Defender; Psalm Prelude “De Profundis” (Set 2 No. 1) Take Him Earth for Cherishing; St Paul’s service Mag & Nunc
Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; Christopher Dearnley (organ) conducted by John Scott.  Recorded 1987
  • Faire is the Heaven:  Music of the English Church           Collegium Records COLCD 107 DDD
A Spotless Rose; Sing Lullaby
The Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter. Recorded 1982
  • Howells & Vaughan Williams                                                                Decca Eloquence 480 7409 ADD
Te Deum (Coll Reg); Psalm Prelude Set 1 No. 1; Coll Reg Mag & Nunc; Take Him Earth for Cherishing; Two Carol-Anthems (Here is the Little Door; Sing Lullaby); St Paul’s service Mag & Nunc.
Choir of King’s College Cambridge; Andrew Davis (organ); Conducted by Sir David Willcocks (and organ DVW for Psalm Prelude)   Recorded originally 1966 on Argo; re-issued on CD by Decca Eloquence 2014.