Birmingham Chamber Choir - English Visionaries [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.SOMM's new release, English Visionaries, adds yet another delightful CD to its enviable catalogue of English choral music, the fifth disc in the label's successful collaboration with the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir and Paul Spicer. Their disc of Ireland and Delius Part-songs (SOMMCD 0119) has garnered 5-star reviews whilst their disc of Stanford Part-songs (SOMMCD 0128) was chosen as 13th out of 24 discs considered the best new releases of 2013 on Classic FM. Their disc of rare repertoire by Herbert Howells (SOMMCD 0140) was Editor's Choice in Gramophone (December 2014) and received 5 stars in Choir and Organ Magazine. Above all, the repertoire chosen by Paul Spicer for this disc dispels the thought that the music of Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, and Herbert Howells is 'English' in a derogatory sense, recalling more Elisabeth Lutyen's 'cowpat school' label than that of 'visionary'. As is amply demonstrated here, all three were composers of enormous transcendent vision, forging a uniquely English musical revolution. One need only hear the soaring lines of Howells' the House of the Mind to recall the rarefied ecstasy of his better-known Hymnus Paradisi. The inexorable build of Vaughan Williams's Lord, Thou Hast Been our Refuge scales similar heights, as does the other worldly harmonic and contrapuntal landscape of Holst's the Evening Watch and Sing Me the Men. Vaughan Williams's status as a revolutionary is strongly evident in his Mass in G Minor, a sublimation of late renaissance music into something powerfully new. He dedicated this inspired work to his friend Gustav Holst in 1921. His post-war (1956), technically virtuosic A Vision of Aeroplanes provides an enormous challenge to the performers, and a marked contrast to the warmth of Prayer to the Father of Heaven with which it opens the disc.

A Vision of Aeroplanes

Prayer to the Father of Heaven - Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir

Kyrie

Gloria

Credo

Sanctus - Osanna I

Benedictus - Osanna II

Agnus Dei

The Evening Watch, Op. 43, No. 1

Sing Me the Men - Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir

The House of the Mind - Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir

Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 748871015920

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