Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and other British Choral Anthems
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and other British Choral Anthems
Roderick Williams (baritone) with Julia Smith, Elizabeth Limb, Rachel Limb & Kate Jurka (soprano) / Martin Ford (organ) / Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backh
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 14 October 2022
Featuring Vaughan Williams' masterly and intensely personal Five Mystical Songs, this album reflects on the sources of inspiration of some of his sacred choral works, alongside gems of 19th- and early-20th-century English church music. Often setting the poetry of the King James Bible, the finely spun melodies and sensitivity to word-rhythm of composers from S.S. Wesley to Herbert Howells result in a uniquely British form of expression.
Tracks:
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
O clap your hands
Sir Edward Elgar / John Cameron:
Lux æterna
Gustav Holst:
Lord, who hast made us for thine own
Harold Darke:
O gladsome light
Herbert Howells:
Like as the hart
Elgar:
Give unto the Lord
Samuel Sebastian Wesley:
Wash me throughly
Vaughan Williams:
O taste and see
S.S. Wesley:
Blessed be the God and Father
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford:
A Song of Wisdom
Patrick Hadley:
My beloved spake
Vaughan Williams:
Five Mystical Songs
