Ubi Caritas The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne & Michael Leighton Jones

• Anonymous:
• 1 Anonymous: Ubi Caritas – Plainchant 02:50
• 2 Anonymous: Ubi caritas et amor 03:16
• John Barnard (b. 1948) & Paul Wigmore (1925 - 2014):
• 3 Barnard, Wigmore: In The Heart Where Love Is Abiding 03:07
• Anonymous:
• 4 Anonymous: I Give You A New Commandment 03:33
• St Richard Of Chichester (1197 - 1253):
• 5 Chichester: A Prayer Of St Richard Of Chichester 02:39
• 6 Chichester: O Holy Jesus 03:33
• 7 Chichester: A Thanksgiving 03:03
• 8 Chichester: A Prayer Of St Richard Of Chichester 03:49
• 9 Chichester: Prayer Of St Richard 02:30
• Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599):
• 10 Spenser: Most Glorious Lord Of Life 02:47
• 11 Spenser: Most Glorious Lord Of Life 05:42
• John Rutter (b. 1945):
• 12 Rutter: Most Glorious Lord Of Life 06:33
• Michael Leighton Jones & Katherine Firth (b. 1979):
• 13 Jones, Firth: Anthem For The Feast Of Any Healer 08:14
• John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890):
• 14 Newman: Peace At The Last 04:19
• 15 Newman: O Lord, Support Us 05:56
• Anonymous:
• 16 Anonymous: Irish Blessing 01:45
• Total Runtime 01:03:36

Info for Ubi Caritas

Gathered here are some of the most beautiful settings by contemporary composers of sacred texts celebrating the power of love. The tracklist draws on the rich traditions of Anglican choral music, especially the singing of Choral Evensong – an oasis of calm at the end of the day.

The Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne lives this musical tradition, singing Evensong several times each week in the college chapel. The choir has toured several times to the UK, presenting the Daily Service on BBC Radio as well as singing concerts and Evensongs in the major cathedrals and collegiate chapels. Tours to the USA, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore have also met with critical acclaim. Its repertoire extends from Medieval plainchant and Renaissance anthems to the present day, regularly commissioning and premiering new works by Australian composers.

This album, recorded in the warm and resonant acoustic of Melbourne’s Trinity College Chapel, presents the Choir at its finest.

Choir of Trinity College, Melbourne
John O’Donnell, organ
Hugh Fullarton, organ
Jonathan Bradley, piano
Michael Leighton Jones, director

Michael Leighton Jones
comes from a musical family - his mother was a professional singer - and he received his earliest musical training in Australia. Postgraduate studies took him from his native New Zealand to England, where he sang in the Choirs of King's College, Cambridge (with Sir David Willcocks) and Westminster Abbey.

For ten years he was a member of the London-based vocal quintet The Scholars, appearing with them in more than a thousand concerts world-wide, before joining the music staff at the University of Queensland. Whilst working in Brisbane, he formed Jones & Co, an a cappella vocal sextet, which toured both nationally and internationally.

He has always maintained an active solo career, performing operatic roles (he created the role of The Friend in Débussy's operatic sketches The Fall of the House of Usher) and singing in oratorios, recitals and Australian premières, many of which were broadcast. He has sung regularly with Australia's professional symphony orchestras and chamber music groups.

Since his school days he has had an interest in composition, studying with David Farquhar and Douglas Lilburn in Wellington, and later with David Willcocks and Gordon Langford. He has written many original works and arrangements for choir and smaller vocal groups. In 1997 he was appointed Director of Music at Trinity College, University of Melbourne, making many CDs with the college choir and touring with them to England, Germany, the Baltic States and Russia, New Zealand, USA and South-East Asia.

He retired from that position in 2014 and now follows a busy free-lance career as an adjudicator, arranger, composer, conductor, singer and teacher.

This album contains no booklet.