{"product_id":"683546","title":"Stephen Layton The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge - Howells: Requiem; St Paul's \u0026 Gloucester Services etc. [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerbert Howells was acutely sensitive to the transience of life, having witnessed the loss of friends and contemporaries in the First World War and encountered deep personal tragedy when his son Michael died of polio at the age of just nine. And so a mood of elegiac yearning inhabits much of his choral music: the austere, lovely a cappella Requiem, and the elegant Take him, earth, for cherishing, commissioned to commemorate the death of President John F Kennedy, here lovingly performed by the young voices of Trinity College Choir, Cambridge, in Hyperion\\u2019s Record of the Month for April 2012.\\r\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet Howells could write magnificently thrilling music too, as demonstrated by the fresh brilliance of A Hymn for St Cecilia, the spine-tingling grandeur of the St Paul\\u2019s Service, or the life-affirming hymn \\u2018All my hope on God is founded\\u2019, here further sweetened with a descant by John Rutter.\u003cp\u003eA Hymn for St Cecilia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSalve regina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGloucester Service\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake him, earth, for cherishing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt Pauls Service\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRequiem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll my hope on God is founded\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55159403708801,"sku":"683546","price":12.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/517VhXKrq9L._SL1500.jpg?v=1767976312","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/683546","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}