Howells: Sine nomine & other secular choral works

For many listeners, Herbert Howells’s choral output will always be associated with his sizeable and significant contribution to the Anglican tradition, but his settings of secular texts should not be overlooked. This album offers a welcome introduction to these, including two works newly arranged for this recording by pianist Iain Farrington.

CDA68476 65 minutes 50 seconds

‘Herbert Howells’s Sine nomine remains one of the most sheerly intoxicating achievements from his early maturity (if you know and love, say, Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony and F ...
‘I was transfixed this week by a Howells album called Sine nomine from professional choral ensemble Ikon and its conductor David Hill … a lovely, sensitive adaptation [of King David ...