Choral Music (Incls Te Deum 'St George's, Windsor')

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HERBERT HOWELLS
Choral Music (Incls Te Deum 'St George's, Windsor')
Wells Cathedral Choir / Malcolm Archer, director

[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 20 February 2014

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Ever the master of the choral miniature, the Three Carol-Anthems are among Howells's most perennially popular works, having been recorded and performed across the globe. Several of the other pieces included on this disc are less famous, but all display their composer's inimitable mastery of form and choral technique.

"The phrasing of Malcolm Archer's Wells Cathedral Choir is unobtrusively intelligent, Howells' long, powerfully expanding crescendos emerging as naturally evolving arcs in the ongoing argument. Tonal blend is excellent, and there is no superficial straining for effect whatsoever. This is genuinely devotional singing, technique placed at the disposal of the music's spiritual message. Rupert Gough's organ accompaniments are exemplary" BBC Music Magazine

"Rupert Gough's accompaniments are tastefully executed and help make this portrait of the range and diversity of a side to Howells all too often taken for granted a highly worthwhile release" International Record Review

"The sound is focused and radiant, the ensemble immaculate, and Rupert Gough provides charismatic organ accompaniment" The Scotsman

Tracks:

A Sequence for St Michael 1961 [10'48]
A Hymn for St Cecilia 1961 [3'11]
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem 1941 No 1 of Four Anthems [7'08]

Te Deum 'St George's, Windsor' 1952 [10'42]
Benedictus 'St George's, Windsor' 1952 [6'28]

I love all beauteous things 1977 [6'24]
Salve Regina 1915 No 4 of Four Anthems of the Blessed Virgin Mary [4'35]

Magnificat 'New College, Oxford' 1949 [6'12]
Nunc dimittis 'New College, Oxford' 1949 [3'04]

A Spotless Rose 1919 No 2 of Three Carol-Anthems [3'04]
Sing lullaby 1920 No 3 of Three Carol-Anthems [3'23]
Here is the little door 1918 No 1 of Three Carol-Anthems [3'43]

Magnificat 'Collegium Regale' 1945 [5'12]
Nunc dimittis 'Collegium Regale' 1945 [4'06]