Hyperion Records | Dyson: Hierusalem

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CDH55046
(Originally issued on CDA66150)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Recording details: March 1984
St Mary Magdalene, Paddington, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Christopher Palmer
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: September 2001
Total duration: 60 minutes 5 seconds

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‘Hierusalem is a wonderful piece which I would bracket with Finzi’s Dies Natalis and Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi as one of the best examples of mystical ecstasy which certain British choral works achieve’ (Gramophone)

'The very beautiful, gently ecstatic Hierusalem … is such a wonderful score that … this recording should be on every shelf that cares about 20th-century British music' (Fanfare, USA)

Sir George Dyson (1883-1964)

Hierusalem

St Michael's Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Rennert (conductor)

1		Three Songs of Praise. No 1: Praise [2'03] Thomas Trotter (organ)
2		Three Songs of Praise. No 2: Lauds [4'40] Thomas Trotter (organ)
3		Three Songs of Praise. No 3: A Poet's Hymn [4'25] Thomas Trotter (organ)
4		Three Choral Hymns. No 1: Morning and Evening [4'20] Thomas Trotter (organ)
5		Three Choral Hymns. No 2: Hymn for a musician [2'52] Thomas Trotter (organ)
6		Three Choral Hymns. No 3: Hymn to the stars [4'44] Thomas Trotter (organ)
7		O praise God in his holiness [1'58] Thomas Trotter (organ)
8		Fantasia and ground bass [16'03] Thomas Trotter (organ)
9		Hierusalem [19'00] Valery Hill (soprano)