Beati Quorum Via, Stanford

This video, filmed before Lockdown, features the Cardinal Vaughan Schola Cantorum singing Beati Quorum Via by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), the last of his Three Latin Motets. This piece can be heard on the Schola's new CD due to be released later in the year entitled Great is the Lord, a collection of anthems and motets from composers of the British Isles. The recording features music by Parry, Elgar, Britten, Howells, Ireland and others, including the first recording of the motet Emitte Lucem Tuam which was composed for the Schola by our patron, Sir James MacMillan in 2014. Beati quorum via integra est: qui ambulant in lege Domini. Blessed are they whose way of life is wholesome: who walk in the law of the Lord.