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Track(s) taken from CDA67400

In a monastery garden

composer
1910
author of text
Kyrie eleison

New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)
Recording details: April 2002
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: September 2002
Total duration: 5 minutes 53 seconds

Cover artwork: Green Park. Robert Buhler (1916-1989)
Royal Academy of Arts, London
 

Reviews

‘Ronald Corp has few rivals in conveying one prerequisite element of this repertoire—charm’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Respectfully and meticulously played … this impeccably produced program—like its three predecessors—remains a precedent-setting endeavour that is sure to elicit grateful appreciation from many quarters’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘The playing struck me as even finer than in the past and the sound … first class, as before’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘The playing is exuberant, the recording ripe’ (The Evening Standard)

‘This fourth compilation, in Hyperion’s hugely successful British light music is another winner … some eighty minutes of sheer delight’ (MusicWeb International)

‘Infectious stuff, delivered with corresponding relish’ (Yorkshire Post)

«Le travail entrepris par Corp et Hyperion est remarquable, sans concession à la qualité instrumentale ou sonore» (Répertoire, France)
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’.

from notes by Andrew Lamb © 2002

Other albums featuring this work

British Light Music Classics
CDS44261/44CDs Boxed set (at a special price) — Download only
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