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Track(s) taken from SIGCD267

The long day closes

First line:
No star is o'er the lake
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Matthew Long (tenor), Gabriel Crouch (bass), William Gaunt (bass), Tenebrae, Nigel Short (conductor)
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Recording details: January 2011
St Alban's Church, Holborn, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Nicholas Parker
Engineered by Andrew Mellor & Mike Hatch
Release date: June 2011
Total duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds
 

Reviews

'Parry's choral masterpieces, the six Songs of Farewell, composed between 1913 and 1915, represent a magnificent summation of his work as an English choral composer whose influence on several generations of native composers thereafter was immense. And this ravishing performance by Tenebrae, in the context of works by Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Harris and Howells, only serves to accentuate how deeply that influence was assimilated' (Gramophone)

'The Music Nigel Short's vocal ensemble Tenebrae continues its candlelit journey, after discs of Victoria's Requiem and Allegri's Miserere, with a programme of 15 brief English choral works … the Performance Tenebrae's intense, closely-mic'd sound is superbly balanced and textured; a soothing, uplifting antidote to our hectic lives' (Classic FM Magazine)» More

'Parry’s six unaccompanied motets are luminous setting sof texts by mainly seventeenth-century poets, reflecting his love of English renaissance madrigals and partsongs. The disc includes choral music by Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Holst, John Tavener and Richard Rodney Bennett—all performed with Tenebrae’s customary poise' (Financial Times)
The long day closes has become the best-known of all the partsongs composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). Composed to a poem by his friend Henry F Chorley, it was published in 1868 and quickly became successful with Victorian choral societies. The plaintively expressive harmonies with which Sullivan clothes the text’s gentle meditation on death have made this work a popular choice at funerals and memorial services.

from notes by Malcolm MacDonald © 2012

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