FRANCIS POTT (b. 1957)

The Cloud of Unknowing

89:46

COMPACT DISC ONE

1

Prologue (organ solo)

2:04

2

There where the sun first dwelt

1:09

3

Lord, thou has been our refuge

2:46

4

Now, as though God were sighing

2:06

5

There where the sun first dwelt (reprise)

2:21

6

I was in the spirit on the Lord's day

2:06

7

And there went out another horse that was red

1:40

8

The cities are burned and consumed from the earth

2:08

9

For a nation is come up

1:57

10

All faces shall gather blackness

2:05

11

They that hate me without a cause

3:35

Daniel Burges tenor

12

Divided sons, fight on

3:13

13

Behold a pale horse

1:32

14

Blessed be he that taketh their children

0:52

15

Dark earth, dark heavens… [Interlude (organ solo)]

3:24

16

Yesterday I was at work teaching Christ to lift his cross

3:29

17

The Lord is my shepherd

9:08

COMPACT DISC TWO

1

For those men night was a more bitter day

4:45

2

My God, why has thou forsaken me?

4:24

3

O do not look

3:22

4

Is this He that was transfigured

6:01

5

Therer they lie huddled

2:55

6

Epilogue: Clear sight shall never man have

4:26

7

For in the other life

3:40

8

In one little time may heaven be won and lost

4:57

9

Amen

2:09

10

Farewell, ghostly friend

1:30

11

The love in him was such

2:48

12

Amen

2:16

James Gilchrist tenor

Jeremy Filsell organ

Jeremy Backhouse

16-18 February 2007