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Track(s) taken from SIGCD541

O clap your hands 'Psalm 47'

composer
1920
author of text
Psalm 47

St John's College Choir Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor), Joseph Wicks (organ)
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Recording details: July 2017
St John's College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Produced by Chris Hazell
Engineered by Simon Eadon
Release date: May 2018
Total duration: 3 minutes 20 seconds

Cover artwork: Cover image © Garvin Hunter Photography, edited by Premm Design.
 

Other recordings available for download

Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor), Robert Quinney (organ)
Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

Reviews

‘Some performances grip you from the outset, and this St John's College recording of Vaughan Williams's Mass in G minor is one of them … there are fine recordings of all these pieces in the catalogue already. But as a single-disc anthology of Vaughan Williams's choral music this new St John's College CD is formidably attractive’ (BBC Music Magazine)
PERFORMANCE
RECORDING
Of the broad straightforward choral style of O clap your hands (1920) Michael Kennedy remarks how apt it is to its purpose of ‘filling a great cathedral with joyous sounds’. It is however not quite as straightforward as all that in every respect: there are moments when choir and orchestra seem to be in untypical harmonic conflict (eg ‘Sing praises unto our King’). Mistake? No, VW evidently meant these clashes; and once we accept that they are meant, we can relish them the more keenly for their unexpectedness.

from notes by Christopher Palmer © 1993

Other albums featuring this work

The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey
CDA67680
Vaughan Williams: Choral works
CDS44321/44CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — Download only
Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem & other works
CDA66655Download only
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