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Track(s) taken from CDA66273

Jerusalem

First line:
And did those feet in ancient time
composer
1916
author of text
1804; Milton

St George's Chapel Choir Windsor, Christopher Robinson (conductor)
Recording details: July 1987
All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, United Kingdom
Release date: July 1988
Total duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

Huddersfield Choral Society, Joseph Cullen (conductor), Darius Battiwalla (organ)

Reviews

‘A fine recital’ (Gramophone)
Parry’s setting of William Blake’s Jerusalem would seem, on the face of it, to be entirely characteristic of the composer’s ‘public’ image. Yet there is something rather more revealing about this choice of text. Its popular associations of national pride belie the passionate anger within Blake’s poem. These are the words of an idealist and radical which must have exerted a powerful attraction to a man of Parry’s convictions. Its first performance took place at a ‘Fight for Right’ meeting at the Queen’s Hall on 28 March 1916.

from notes by John Heighway © 1988

Other albums featuring this work

The Hymns Album, Vol. 1
Studio Master: SIGCD079Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
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