H. Skempton - The Cloths of Heaven - Choral music and songs - The Exon Singers

ID: DCD34056 (EAN: 801918340567)  | 1 CD | DDD - 24 b
Released in: 2008

LABEL:

DELPHIAN RECORDS

Collection:

Choral Collection

Composers:

SKEMPTON, Howard

Ensembles:

The Exon Singers

Conductors:

OWENS, Matthew

Other info:

World Premiere Recordings.

Best known as a composer of exquisitely quirky miniatures for accordion or piano solo, Howard Skempton has in recent years developed an equally strong affinity for the choral medium. The Exon Singers' programme on this brand new disc includes a new Missa brevis composed especially for the recording, alongside songs and shorter choral pieces constituting a broad survey of Skempton's output over the past twenty-five years.


Track listing
Howard Skempton
1. Upon my lap my sovereign sits
2. O Saviour of the World
3. Locus iste
4. The Song of Songs
5. O Life! for baritone and organ
6. Nature's Fire for organ
7. Adam lay y-bounden

Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Edinburgh Service)
8. Magnificat
9. Nunc dimittis

Lamentations for baritone and theorbo
10. How sits this city
11. I am the man
12. The anointed Lord
13. For oughtest thou, O Lord

14. Beati quorum via

Emerson Songs for soprano and baritone
15. Music
16. Brahma
17. Pan
18. Xenophanes

19. He wishes for the cloths of Heaven
20. Ave Virgo sanctissima
21-25. Missa brevis (2008)
26. Ostende nobis Domine
27. Recessional for organ

Total playing time [71:16]

‘... beautifully tailored singing'
- Gramophone, December 2006

‘The Exon Singers compel emotionally'
- BBC Music Magazine, December 2004