DESCRIPTION:
Both sides of a Columbia 12" 78rpm test pressing from 1930 (WAX 4751 and 4752), featuring the choir of St George's Windsor, directed by Henry Walford Davies.

Side 1:
Sursum corda
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei

Side 2:
Lead us, heavenly Father (“Mannheim”)
Psalm 67 (Anglican chant)
O perfect love (Hymn)
Wedding March (Felix Mendelssohn)

Recording sessions by Columbia took place in the chapel on 8 & 9 July 1930. Only two records were deemed suitable for issue, and the other test pressings that were recorded were not issued. Test pressings were usually destroyed, but by a stroke of good fortune, three of them (including the one presented here) survived. Richard Jeffrey-Gray, owner of the professional sound company www.hoxa.net, undertook their audio restoration and then generously donated them to the Archive.