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Sing, mortals!
First line:
When Planets first their stately measures trod
composer
A Sonnet for the Festival of St Cecilia; commissioned for the 1974 St Cecilia service; SATB with organ
author of text
Sir Arthur Bliss succeeded Sir Arnold Bax as Master of the Queen’s Music in 1953 and relished the opportunities for the composition of ceremonial and occasional music. Despite claiming in his autobiography of 1966 that he found ‘my joy in writing music on the wane’ the last few years of his life saw a flurry of compositional activity. Sing, mortals!, a ‘Sonnet for the Festival of St Cecilia’, was commissioned for the St Cecilia service in 1974 and is catalogued as his last choral composition. Bliss sets a text by Canon Richard Tydeman, Rector at the time of the Church of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in London. Known as the National Musicians’ Church, this was the home for many years of the annual St Cecilia service.
from notes by Rupert Gough © 2014
Recordings
 Hymns to Saint CeciliaStudio Master: CDA68047Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available  A new choral compendium from the highly regarded Choir of Royal Holloway, comprising twentieth- and twenty-first-century works written in honour of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music.» More |
Details
Artists
ISRC
GB-AJY-14-04711
Duration
6'03
Recording date
25 April 2013
Recording venue
Rochester Cathedral, United Kingdom
Recording producer
Adrian Peacock
Recording engineer
David Hinitt
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