“Treasury of English Church Music” - Disc 2: Westminster Abbey 1965 (Douglas Guest)

Recorded in Westminster Abbey, July 1965. Directed by Douglas Guest. Organ: Simon Preston. In 1965, the Blandford Press published a five-volume anthology entitled “The Treasury of English Church Music”. A year later, EMI issued on the HMV label a set of five complementary LPs to illustrate the collected anthology. They featured the choir of Westminster Abbey, the cathedral choirs of St Paul’s, Chichester and Guildford, and the Ambrosian Singers. (The original LPs have been re-released as a CD box set, whic