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Track(s) taken from SIGCD269

Advent prose

composer
Judith Weir (b1954)
1983
author of text
Bible

Jesus College Choir Cambridge, Mark Williams (conductor)
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Recording details: July 2011
Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Produced by Chris Hazell
Engineered by Mike Hatch & Will Brown
Release date: September 2012
Total duration: 1 minutes 43 seconds
 

Reviews

'Another Oxbridge college, another fine mixed-voice choir, another gorgeously captured chapel acoustic (Mike Hatch engineering)—this selection of favourite pieces by mainly British composers makes a pleasingly intimate impression' (Gramophone)
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'This album provides a lovely programme of music. The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge perform beautifully and the album contains a lot of wonderful rarities' (Classic FM)
The text of Judith Weir’s a cappella setting, anticipating the Messiah’s coming, is from the Book of Isaiah. The composer explains her piece ‘was written in 1983 and first performed by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge’. Based on the mode i plainsong melody, the music swells from unison to eight-part harmony and back again.

from notes by Robert Matthew-Walker © 2011

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