Scored for Chorus SATB and Organ Parry’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis alternates unison lines with Chorally complex phrases in both movements. It includes examples of Parry’s characteristic forward-looking harmonies.Composer and Organist Hubert Parry creator of the great hymn Jerusalem among many other works was not intended by his family for a career in music. When he finished at Eton in 1966 he spent the summer studying composition in Germany before matriculating at Exeter College Oxford where he read law and modern history. During his time there he did very little composition but did create this Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D.
