Raven Pipe Organ CDs, DVDs, and Choral CDs - A Blaze of Song: Choirs of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, NM Great review! Gramophone magazine, December 2025

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The Choirs of the Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Maxine Thévenot, Director of Cathedral Music and Organist

Edmund Connolly, Assistant Organist

Music on the Program:

Ulysses Kay: O Praise the Lord 2:33
St. John Cathedral Chamber Choir

David Hurd: The Altar 5:33
St. John Cathedral Choir

Zachary Wadsworth: The Beatitudes 5:00
St. John Cathedral Choir

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Melody (from Three Pieces) 3:48
Maxine Thévenot, organ

Philip Wilby: If Ye Love Me 3:32
St. John Cathedral Choir, Cathedral Choristers, Cathedral Schola

B. E. Boykin: John 3:16 1:58
St. John Cathedral Chamber Choir

Cecilia McDowall: Ash Wednesday 6:23
St. John Cathedral Choir

Howard Helvey: Ride on, King Jesus 3:05
St. John Cathedral Choir

Jessica French: The Call 2:21
St. John Cathedral Choristers

Edmund Connolly: The Lord’s Prayer 2:45
St. John Cathedral Chamber Choir

Miriam Reveley: Adagio in C Minor 3:22
Maxine Thévenot, organ

David McGregor: Ave Verum Corpus 3:26
Jordyn Tatum, soprano; Maxine Thévenot, organ

Jessica French: Tantum Ergo 2:57
St. John Cathedral Choir

Joanna Forbes L’Estrange: The Chorister’s Prayer 3:22
St. John Cathedral Choristers

Howard Helvey: O Lux Beatissima 2:41
St. John Cathedral Chamber Choir

Amy Beach: Peace I leave with you, op. 8 no. 3 1:30
St. John Cathedral Chamber Choir

Elizabeth Poston: The Lamb 2:40
St. John Cathedral Choristers

John Ireland: Ex Ore Innocentium 3:15
St. John Cathedral Choristers

Stephanie Martin: Ascension 4:48
St. John Cathedral Choir

Rachel Laurin: Invocation (from Douze Courtes Pièces) 2:02
Maxine Thévenot, organ

Sarah Quartel: Density of Light 4:16

St. John Cathedral Choir

Writes Donald Rosenberg in Gramophone, December 2025:

"The expressive temperatures range from cool to near-red hot on this rich recording . . . The album is a dulcet and majestic display of 21 short selections . . . With such a banquet of works keeping the choristers and organists Thévenot and Edmund Connolly busy, it is futile in such short space to to detail the sundry qualities that make each score so effective. . . . The performances involve singers . . . who have been expertly trained in their art. They phrase with fine unanimity, achieve lucid balances and savour the words, in whatever language propels the music's message."

A Blaze of Song: Choirs of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, NM<BR><font color = red><B>Great review! <I>Gramophone</I> magazine, December 2025</font></B>

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