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Track(s) taken from CDH55445

Feast Song for Saint Cecilia

First line:
When the sun with great flashes of grandeur
composer
composed for the 1975 Festival of St Cecilia; SATB divisi with soli unaccompanied
author of text

Jeremy Budd (treble), Simon Hill (countertenor), Alan Green (tenor), St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott (conductor)
Recording details: July 1990
St Paul's Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: June 1991
Total duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds

Cover artwork: St Paul's Cathedral, London.
 

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Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough (conductor), Sophie Edwards (soprano), Louise Laprun (alto), Jack Wilde (tenor)
Dr Bernard Rose (1916–1996) was, until 1981, Informator choristarum at Magdalen College in Oxford. He was appointed to that post in 1957 and had been associated with Oxford University after leaving Cambridge in 1939 having taken his music degees there. As well as being a composer, Dr Rose was also a scholar in his own right, having concentrated his research in the early 1960s on the choral music of Thomas Tomkins. Under Dr Rose’s direction, the choir of Magdalen College quickly established a reputation as one of the finest college choirs in this country. Rose made many recordings with this choir, notably of music by less well-known early English composers.

As a composer, Rose’s output has been concerned with liturgical music, and many of his compositions have become standard cathedral repertory. The Feast Song for Saint Cecilia, with words by Gregory Rose, the composer’s son, was composed for the 1975 Festival of Saint Cecilia which was held in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in London. With its refrain, set for treble soloist by the composer, the poem is reminsiscent of Auden’s ‘Hymn to Saint Cecilia’ set by Britten. Here Rose sets the words carefully, drawing out the natural rhythms and painting the text in the most captivating manner.

from notes by William McVicker © 1991

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Hymns to Saint Cecilia
Studio Master: CDA68047Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
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