Sacred Treasures of Christmas: Music for Christmas, Epiphany & Candlemas

Featuring

Charles Cole
Xavier Ferros
London Oratory School Schola
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Giovanni Gabrieli
Anonymous (Gregorian Chant)

Hans Leo Hassler (von Roseneck)
Jean Mouton
Samuel Scheidt
Francisco Guerrero
Orlando di Lasso
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
John Sheppard
Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Giovanni Maria Nanino
Thomas Tallis

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Performer Biography

The Schola Cantorum has toured extensively, performing throughout the USA and Europe, including at St Mark's Basilica in Venice and Spanish cathedrals.

Performer Biography

The London Oratory Schola Cantorum, founded in 1996, provides Catholic boys aged seven to eighteen with a choral education within the state-education system.

Album & Artwork

This album, "Sacred Treasures of Christmas," is part of an anthology of sacred repertoire drawn from the liturgical motets sung at the London Oratory.

Performer Biography

The Schola Cantorum sang at the canonization of John Henry Newman at St Peter's, Rome, in 2019 and performed for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Performer Biography

Charles Cole, the director, began his musical training as a chorister at Westminster Cathedral and was appointed Director of the Schola Cantorum in 2012.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The Schola Cantorum aims to bring to a wider audience music that adorns the liturgies at the London Oratory, emphasizing its sacred purpose within a liturgical context.