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Release Date: 1989Label: Hyperion
Music to mark the 800th anniversary of the Coronation of King Richard I of England in Westminster Abbey, 3 September 1189.Illustrations:
Booklet front: "The Magi before Herod". From a psalter produced in an Augustine house in northern England, c1170, Copenhagen, Royal Library.
Booklet back: The opening of two-part conductus "In occasu sideris" [9] anticipating Richard's coronation. Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana Pluteo.
Page 8: The Church of the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester. Illustration from J Britton's "Chronological History and Graphic Illustrations of Christian Architecture in England (London, 1826)
Recorded in the Church of Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, between 14-16 November 1988.
(P)&(C) Hyperion Records Limited, London, MCMLXXXIX
Made in England