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Compact Disc CDA67020

£13.99


This is a recording of Georgian music for Holy Week, Easter and funerals ranging from the simple psalmody associated with the galleries of rural parish churches to elaborate orchestral anthems written for the groups which developed into the Victorian choral society tradition. While the composers' names will not be familiar, this is nonetheless music of a striking and vigorous nature, here performed by the choir Psalmody - the experts in the field.


Recorded in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, on 10-12 September 1997
Recording Engineers
ANTONY HOWELL
JULIAN MILLARD
Recording Producer
MARTIN COMPTON
Cover Design
TERRY SHANNON
Booklet Editor
NICK FLOWER
Executive Producers
EDWARD PERRY
SIMON PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMXCVIII

Duration: 66'40
DDD
Front illustration: The Ancient of Days by William Blake (1757-1827)

The English Orpheus

Vital Spark of Heav'nly Flame

Music of Death and Resurrection
from English Parish Churches and Chapels, 1760-1840

PSALMODY
THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS
PETER HOLMAN director


Contents:

  1. This is the day the Lord hath made (? THOMAS GREATOREX) [3'47]
  2. Vital spark of heav'nly flame (EDWARD HARWOOD of Darwen, Lancashire) [4'11]
  3. When rising from the bed of death (JOHN PIXELL of Edgbaston) [5'24]
  4. The Lord is risen (ROBERT WAINWRIGHT of Manchester) [7'02]
  5. Alas! and did my Saviour bleed? (RICHARD TAYLOR of Chester) [3'28]
  6. Yes! the Redeemer rose (RICHARD TAYLOR) [4'12]
  7. Angels, roll the rock away! (RICHARD TAYLOR) [4'21]
  8. I heard a voice from heaven (HENRY HARINGTON of Bath) [2'24]
  9. Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb (HANDEL, arr. EDWARD MILLER of Doncaster) [5'40]
  10. Christ being raised from the dead (STEPHEN JARVIS of Dartmouth) [3'20]
  11. Might I in thy sight appear (SAMUEL WESLEY) [3'11]
  12. O Lord, what is man! (Haydn, arr. WILLIAM GARDINER of Leicester) [1'50]
  13. Spirit, leave thine house of clay! (JOHN FAWCETT of Bolton) [2'45]
  14. Rejoice, the Lord is King (HANDEL, arr. SAMUEL WESLEY) [7'17]
  15. Now is Christ risen from the dead (JOHN FAWCETT) [6'52]

'Once again Peter Holman's scholarship offers a fascinating glimpse of a neglected repertoire' (BBC Music Magazine)

'An infectious CD bringing to life a neglected period and its forgotten music. What fun parish music must have been for the likes of Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Blake or Thackeray' (Classic CD)


See also:
Arne: Six Favourite Concertos
Croft: Te Deum & Burial Service
Linley: Lyric Ode
Locke: Anthems, Motets and Ceremonial Music
Motets by Peter Philips
The English Orpheus
The English Orpheus, Vol 1 - John Stanley Concertos
The English Orpheus, Vol 18 - Fairest work of happy Nature
The English Orpheus, Vol 20 - Awake my lyre
The English Orpheus, Vol 25 - Keyboard Music by Peter Philips (c1561-1628)
The English Orpheus, Vol 27 - The Romantic Muse
The English Orpheus, Vol 33 - Arne's Artaxerxes
The English Orpheus, Vol 48 - Haydn and his English Friends
The English Orpheus, Vol 49 - Nativity
The English Orpheus, Vol 50 - Orpheus with his lute

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