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Track(s) taken from SIGCD460

Hosanna to the Son of David

composer
Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
author of text
Bible
Matthew 21: 9 & Luke 19, adapted

The Choir of the Chapel Royal, Huw Williams (conductor)
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Recording details: April 2015
Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, United Kingdom
Produced by Alistair Dixon
Engineered by Mike Hatch & Dave Rowell
Release date: November 2016
Total duration: 1 minutes 49 seconds

Cover artwork: Watercolour of the Chapel Royal in procession at Christmas (1989). John Castle
Archive of Chapel Royal
 

Other recordings available for download

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

Reviews

'This is a charming addition to the huge number of Christmas Carol CDs. The added-value is the warm and friendly mood created by this choir, which lends enchantment and magic to these diverse carols' (MusicWeb International)
Thomas Weelkes’ glorious full anthem Hosanna to the Son of David is based on a paraphrase of verses from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Weelkes gained a reputation for drunkenness and was eventually dismissed from his position of organist at Chichester Cathedral. His final book of madrigals has on its title page “Gentleman of the Chapel Royal”, though as no records exist it seems that he was at best a Gentleman Extraordinary—i. e. unpaid supernumerary.

from notes by Phillip Borg-Wheeler © 2016

Other albums featuring this work

Advent at St Paul's
St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott (conductor)
CDA66994Temporarily out of stock

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