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Composer: HARRIS, William Henry ((1883-1973)) |
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ID: BRIL6323
CDs: 1
Type: DVD5
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
1 DVD 16:9
Total time: 01:25:23
Region: (All) PAL, 2.35:1 ALL FORMATS
Sound Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo 5.1 |
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ID: SIGCD085
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
Few can argue with Tenebrae's international stature as one of the most competent, versatile, exciting and passionate vocal ensembles in the world today.
The beauty of Tenebrae's perfectly blended sound coupled with near-flawless technique is showcased in this recording, featuring a selection of their favourite concert repertoire to create a performance worthy of anyone's collection.
Allegri's haunting Miserere is the central point in a journey through music of longing and entreaty, hope and faith. These works spanning the centuries are chosen from the heart of Tenebrae's concert repertoire. |
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ID: SIGCD267
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir
Following a string of five-star reviews for their previous discs of 20th-century French choral music (Poulenc’s Figure Humaine - SIGCD197) and Renaissance polyphony (Victoria’s Requiem Mass - SIGCD248), the professional chamber-choir Tenebrae go from strength to strength with this new recording of British partsongs and choral music - centered on Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell.
Composed towards the end of Parry’s life, the Songs of Farewell have taken on something of an epithetical interpretation; they are almost a musical summation of his compositional life, reflecting Parry’s love of English renaissance madrigals and partsongs as much as the influence on his work from German composers like Brahms - made more complicated as these works were composed as the country (and its music) fell out of favour at the start of the Great War. This disc also includes works by Tavener, Sullivan, Holst, Rodney Bennett, Howells, Elgar and Vaughan Williams. |
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ID: SIGCD446
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge’s new release on Signum blends a selection of ancient and modern works from the 16th and 20th Centuries, all centred on the theme of evening
Tracks
1. God be in my head Philip Radcliffe 1.29
2. Save us, O Lord Edward Bairstow 4.56
3. In manus tuas John Sheppard 4.02
4. Song at Evening Richard Rodney Bennet 3.25
5. Miserere mihi Domine William Byrd 2.49
6. Creator of the stars of night Gabriel Jackson 3.52
7. The Lord is my Shepherd Lennox Berkeley 4.43
8. Christe qui lux es et dies IV Robert Whyte 6.03
9. Evening Hymn Henry Balfour Gardiner 6.24
10. Behold thou hast made my days Orlando Gibbons 5.30
11. Evening Watch Gustav Holst 4.39
12. The Lord's Prayer John Tavener 3.08
13. Bring us O Lord God William Harris 4.09
14. In Pace John Blitheman 4.14
15. Evening Prayers Philip Moore 6.03
16. Miserere nostri Thomas Tallis 3..22
17. Blessed city, heav'nly Salem Edward Bairstow 9.10 |
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ID: SIGCD475
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Choir
Signum’s second disc with the Choir of the Queen’s College Oxford is centred around the concept of ‘relevation’, both divine revelation (particularly the apocalyptic visions of the Book of Revelation) and revelatory visions of earth and heaven. The bulk of the pieces on the recording are inspired by the extraordinary visions of John, the writer of the Book of Revelation, describing the ravaging of the world through divine judgement, the battles between good and evil, and the world’s eventual remaking as ‘a new heaven and a new earth’ in which death and suffering are no more. The disc features three new commissions, by Phillip Cooke, Toby Young and Marco Galvani, who was a final-year student at Queen’s at the time of recording. |
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ID: SIGCD508
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ
The year 1937 was surely one of the richest years of the 20th century for the English organ repertoire. That peculiarly English genre the organ sonata gained two new major works with the publication of Percy Whitlock's sonata in C minor and Edward Bairstow's sonata in Eb.
Percy Whitlock studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Vaughan Williams. His C-minor organ sonata was conceived whilst laid low with illness and dependent upon the radio, where he was thrilled to hear a broadcast of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony in C minor. Then during a period of convalescence, Whitlock enjoyed a series of country walks which sowed the seeds of the second and third movements of his sonata. The sonata is a brooding work of symphonic scale and complexity. In it, the organ is treated very much as an orchestra, requiring the player to be more than usually adroit at manipulating the stops to achieve specific tone-colours. The sonata is recognised as the finest of the very good, light, British organ pieces that exist (with most of the others being by Whitlock anyway).
In the 1930s Sir Edward Bairstow was Professor of Music at the University of Durham and had not written for the organ since 1911, chiefly concentrating instead on the composition of choral works. A nationally recognised academic, he came to regard some of his earlier organ works as somewhat sentimental but he had never the less had a yearning to write an organ sonata. By giving the work slow and quiet outer movements which rise in the middle, and a bright, strong central one, Bairstow inverts the usual pattern. He establishes the overall mood as quiet and introverted, suiting his love of restraint.
The disc concludes on an upbeat note with the arresting Flourish for an Occasion from the pen of Sir William Harris, organist of St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle. St George's is the home of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and the occasion for which this piece was composed was the annual Garter service of 1947. |
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