In a monastery garden

composer

Albert W Ketèlbey (1875-1959)

1910

author of text

Anonymous

Kyrie eleison

Recordings

British Light Music Classics

New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

Buy by post £27.96 CDS44261/4 4CDs Boxed set (at a special price)

British Light Music Classics, Vol. 4

New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

Buy by post £13.99 (ARCHIVE SERVICE) CDA67400 Archive Service; also available on CDS44261/4

Details

New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

Track 9 on CDA67400 [5'53] Archive Service; also available on CDS44261/4

Track 9 on CDS44261/4 CD4 [5'53] 4CDs Boxed set (at a special price)

In a monastery garden

Albert William Ketèlbey (1875–1959) was born in Aston, near Birmingham. He studied piano, organ, cello, clarinet, oboe and horn at Trinity College, London, and had an extensive career as church organist, music editor and theatre conductor. Contrary to popular belief, the name under which he became famous was—give or take the accent added to get the stress right—his own. We have here what is perhaps his very best known composition, In a Monastery Garden (1910). It was inspired by a friend’s invitation to the Franciscan Friary at Chilworth, near Guildford in Surrey. Ketèlbey admirably captured the atmosphere of the place, complete with a male chorus of monks chanting the ‘Kyrie eleison’.

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