And They Came to a Place Named Gethsemane
The Agony
Processional to Calvary
And When They Were Come
The Mystery of the Divine Humiliation
He Made Himself of No Reputation
The Majesty of the Divine Humiliation
And As Moses Lifted Up the Serpent
God So Loved the World
Litany of the Passion (hymn)
Jesus Said, 'Father, Forgive Them'
So Thou Liftest Thy Divine Petition
The Mystery of the Intercession
And One of the Malefactors
The Adoration of the Crucified (hymn)
When Jesus Therefore, Saw His Mother
Is It Nothing to You?
The Appeal of the Crucified (chorus)
After This, Jesus Knowing That All Things Were Now Accomplished
For the Love of Jesus

John Stainer made it his life’s work to reform and renew the standards of music in schools, parish churches, colleges and cathedrals up and down the land. His two most lasting legacies are our thriving cathedral choral tradition and this piece – The Crucixion. Intended to be accessible, and full of the zeal and emotion of the reforming High Church, Stainer’s meditation on the Passion was immediately taken up in both Britain and America, and is as popular today as ever. Here, Duncan Ferguson and the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh are joined by two rising-star Scottish soloists and, in the hymns, by a nave-full of local young musicians and the cathedral’s own worshippers to create a true sense of the musical community spirit that the composer had in mind.