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Track(s) taken from SIGCD267

They are at rest

composer
1909
author of text

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 39 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor), Robert Quinney (organ)
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The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

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)
Elgar’s elegy for unaccompanied chorus sets words by Cardinal Newman. It was written in response to a commission from Sir Walter Parratt for an anthem to be sung on the anniversary of Queen Victoria’s death, and was first performed at the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore on 22 January 1910.

from notes by Lewis Foreman © 2007

Cette élégie pour chœur sans accompagnement met en musique un texte du cardinal Newman. Elle fut écrite en réponse à une commande de Sir Walter Parratt, qui voulait un anthem pour l’anniversaire de la mort de la reine Victoria, et fut créée au Royal Mausoleum de Frogmore le 22 janvier 1910.

extrait des notes rédigées par Lewis Foreman © 2007
Français: Hypérion

Elgars Elegie für Chor a cappella vertont Worte des Kardinals Newman. Sie entstand als Auftragskomposition für Sir Walter Parratt für ein Anthem, das zum Jahrestag des Todestages von Königin Viktoria gesungen werden sollte, und wurde am 22. Januar 1910 im Königlichen Mausoleum in Frogmore uraufgeführt.

aus dem Begleittext von Lewis Foreman © 2007
Deutsch: Renate Wendel

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A Song of Farewell
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