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Track(s) taken from SIGCD346

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Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choristers, Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
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Recording details: December 2012
Douai Abbey, Upper Woolhampton, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by Neil Hutchinson
Release date: October 2013
Total duration: 6 minutes 0 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)
The Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood (conductor)

Reviews

'Genuinely challenging and different … the Gabrieli's rapt and intense performance is remarkable in its poise and tonal control at mainly low dynamic levels … a wonderful Christmas offering' (BBC Music Magazine)» More

This is one of a pair of unaccompanied pieces Howells wrote in 1950 for the Lady Margaret Singers of Cambridge, a select student choir conducted by George Guest, later Organist and Choirmaster of St John’s College. The composer described it as ‘carol-anthem’, the same designation he had given to his early and celebrated A spotless Rose. The music, in Howells's most characteristic vein, does indeed have elements both of a carol, with its refrain-like use of the opening verse, and of an anthem, the music having a freer and more continuous structure than a carol, with richly-spiced harmony and ever-changing vocal textures.

from notes by John Rutter © 2020

Other albums featuring this work

Howells: Choral Music
SIGCD190Download only
Stanford and Howells Remembered
CSCD5242CDs Download only
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