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Track(s) taken from CDA66421/2

Vexilla regis prodeunt, S185

composer
1864

Leslie Howard (piano)
Recording details: December 1989
St Peter's Church, Petersham, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason
Release date: October 1990
Total duration: 5 minutes 16 seconds

Cover artwork: The Plains of Heaven (detail) (1851/3). John Martin (1789-1854)
 

Reviews

‘Howard, catching the authentic tinge of hysteria, mounts swiftly upwards in an ecstasy that burns away awareness of mere notes’ (Classic CD)
Venantius Fortunatus’s hymn Vexilla regis prodeunt introduces Via Crucis, but in the earlier piano work upon the same theme, which also exists for orchestra, the procession is not that of the Via Dolorosa, but a real crusaders’ march, full of power and vigour, with just one gentler variation before the coda. Vexilla regis prodeunt, too, remained unpublished until 1978.

from notes by Leslie Howard © 1990

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