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Track(s) taken from CDP12102

Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear – Abends

First line:
Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear
composer
NEH 251
author of text

Wells Cathedral Choir, Malcolm Archer (conductor), Rupert Gough (organ)
Recording details: May 2000
Wells Cathedral, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: January 2001
Total duration: 3 minutes 43 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott (conductor), Christopher Dearnley (organ)

Reviews

‘Delivered with crisp, evocative conviction’ (Classic FM Magazine)
It is almost a theme running through these notes that a hymn tune or two is all that survives of the work of a musician highly regarded in his time. After studies in England and Germany, Herbert Oakeley was Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University, and in 1881 was made Composer to the Queen in Scotland. He composed a great deal and was known as a fine improviser. These words by John Keble, whose ‘hymns’ are almost all taken from his book of poems The Christian Year (1827), are another meditation on Luke 24:29, ‘Abide with us, for it is towards evening, and the day is far spent’. It is another of those popular evening hymns (the German ‘Abends’ means ‘at evening’). The tune gives a fitting aura of warmth to the words, but it is tightly constructed, with the rising figure introduced in line two appearing at different pitches in the next two lines, carrying the interest through to the end.

from notes by Alan Luff © 2001

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