Hyperion Records | Holst: The Evening Watch

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CDH55170
(Originally issued on CDA66329)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Recording details: October 1988
St Paul's School for Girls, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: February 2004
Total duration: 63 minutes 19 seconds

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'The performances here are wonderfully responsive. The individual voices seem perfectly attuned to the special colouring of Holst's music' (Gramophone)

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

The Evening Watch

Holst Singers, Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)

		Two Psalms, H117
1		No 1: Psalm 86 [7'14] with Holst Orchestra
2		No 2: Psalm 148 [4'40] with Holst Orchestra
		Six Choruses, H186 Op 52
3		No 1: Good Friday [4'09] with Holst Orchestra
4		No 2: Intercession [3'16] with Holst Orchestra
5		No 3: How mighty are the Sabbaths [5'36] with Holst Orchestra
6		No 4: A Love Song [2'05] with Holst Orchestra
7		No 5: Drinking Song [2'05] with Holst Orchestra
8		No 6: Before Sleep [2'50] with Holst Orchestra
9		The Evening Watch, H159 Op 43 No 1 [4'42]
		Seven Partsongs, H162 Op 44
10		No 1: Say who is this? [2'54] with Holst Orchestra
11		No 2: O Love, I complain [1'22] with Holst Orchestra
12		No 3: Angel spirits of sleep [1'42] with Holst Orchestra
13		No 4: When first we met [2'06] with Holst Orchestra
14		No 5: Sorrow and joy [1'27] with Holst Orchestra
15		No 6: Love on my heart [2'37] with Holst Orchestra
16		No 7: Assemble, all ye maidens [11'11] with Holst Orchestra
17		Nunc dimittis, H127 [3'23]