Hymn of St Cecilia - a setting of Geoffrey Chaucer by Paul Corfield Godfrey

Performed by:
Rosie Hay, Emma Mary Llewellyn, Angharad Morgan, Helen Greenaway, Stella Woodman, Sophie Yelland, Simon Crosby Buttle, David Fortey, Huw Llywelyn, Julian Boyce, Laurence Cole & Jasey Hall
Music by Paul Corfield Godfrey
Texts adapted from Geoffrey Chaucer
Video Direction: Julian Boyce
This work, to a text by Geoffrey Chaucer from The Golden Legend which he also used in the Second Nun’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales, is an address by Saint Cecilia to her fellow martyrs before their deaths. The paraphrase of the original Middle English poem is by the composer.
​The setting, for mixed choir with organ accompaniment, was written to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Academy of Saint Cecilia in Auckland, New Zealand.
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