Rise Up and Wonder CD

This album, recorded in Salford Cathedral on 8th and 9th June 2023, is the first commercial recording of the Cathedral Choir. It was inspired by the great East window, which features on the cover, and aims to bring the listener right into the building, a place of sacred serenity and an escape from the bustle of Salford’s busy Chapel Street the other side of the West Door.

The album features music that has been written within the past few years by living women composers from across the UK, Australia, and Canada, the only exception being the two chants by the German composer Hildegard of Bingen, one of the earliest documented women composers in history.

Track listing:

1. Adam lay ybounden – June Nixon
2. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day – Tamsin Jones
3. In Bethlehem above – Yshani Perinpanayagam
4. Sweet was the song the Virgin sung – Emma Brown
5. God with me – Sarah Quartel
6. The Call – Gail Randall
7. Missa Brevis: Kyrie – Becky McGlade
8. Missa Brevis: Gloria – Becky McGlade
9. Missa Brevis: Sanctus and Benedictus – Becky McGlade
10. Missa Brevis: Agnus Dei – Becky McGlade
11. Ave virgo sanctissima – Amy Summers
12. O virtus Sapientie – Hildegard of Bingen
13. Crux fidelis – Sarah MacDonald
14. O sacrum convivium – Lucy Walker
15. Oculi omnium – Lucy Walker
16. O lux beata Trinitas – Emma Brown
17. O ye who taste that Love is sweet – Eleanor Daley
18. Laus Trinitati – Hildegard of Bingen
19. Upon Your Heart – Eleanor Daley
20. Ave verum corpus – Stephanie Martin
21. Oratio Dominica: Pater Noster – Tamsin Jones
22. My Guardian Angel – Judith Weir

Rise Up and Wonder will be officially launched at a special one-hour concert on Saturday 14th October 2023, 7.30pm, at Holy Name RC Church, Oxford Road, Manchester. Free admission, with a retiring collection.