Vidi Speciosam: Sacred Choral Music Bevan Family Consort & Graham Ross

• Anonymous: O Lux Beata Caelitum:
• 1 Anonymous: O Lux Beata Caelitum 03:39
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594): Sicut Cervus:
• 2 Palestrina: Sicut Cervus 05:34
• Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 - 1611): Missa Vidi Speciosam:
• 3 Victoria: Missa Vidi Speciosam: I. Kyrie 01:46
• 4 Victoria: Missa Vidi Speciosam: II. Gloria 03:41
• 5 Victoria: Missa Vidi Speciosam: III. Credo 06:21
• 6 Victoria: Missa Vidi Speciosam: IV. Sanctus 03:24
• 7 Victoria: Missa Vidi Speciosam: V. Agnus Dei 03:03
• Alonso Lobo (1555 - 1617): Versa est in Luctum:
• 8 Lobo: Versa est in Luctum 04:20
• Thomas Tallis (1505 - 1585): O Sacrum Convivium:
• 9 Tallis: O Sacrum Convivium 03:30
• Robert Parsons (1535 - 1572): Credo Quod Redemptor:
• 10 Parsons: Credo Quod Redemptor 02:46
• Giovanni Croce (1557 - 1609): In Spiritu Humilitatis:
• 11 Croce: In Spiritu Humilitatis 04:32
• Fernando de las Infantas (1534 - 1610): Dignare Me Laudare Te:
• 12 Infantas: Dignare Me Laudare Te 03:10
• Anonymous: Ave Maria:
• 13 Anonymous: Ave Maria 02:09
• David Bevan (1951 - 2021): Magnificat Septimi Toni:
• 14 Bevan: Magnificat Septimi Toni 05:13
• Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934): Nunc Dimittis:
• 15 Holst: Nunc Dimittis 03:08
• Ave Maria, Op. 9b:
• 16 Holst: Ave Maria, Op. 9b 04:20
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924): Beati Quorum Via:
• 17 Stanford: Beati Quorum Via 03:23
• Total Runtime 01:03:59

Info for Vidi Speciosam: Sacred Choral Music

Musikalität hat bei den Bevans, die heute als Bevan Family Consort bekannt sind, einen hohen Stellenwert. Roger Bevan gründete in den 1970er Jahren den ursprünglichen Bevan Family Choir und damit ein musikalisches Phänomen.

Die Sopranistin Mary Bevan schreibt: "1975 brachte der ursprüngliche Bevan Family Choir sein Debütalbum auf Vinyl heraus, das ein eklektisches Programm aus geistlichen Chorwerken, walisischen Volksliedern und Klaviermusik enthielt. Der Chor bestand aus 11 der 14 Bevan-Geschwister und wurde von ihrem Vater Roger geleitet. Später wurde der Chor vom zweitältesten Sohn, David, übernommen, der später stellvertretender Musikdirektor an der Westminster Cathedral werden sollte.

Die musikalische Tradition blühte in der Familie weiter auf, bis 2013 einige Cousins und Cousinen der zweiten Generation beschlossen, ihre eigene Version des Familienchors zu gründen und sich in "Bevan Family Consort" umbenannten, um sich von der Generation ihrer Eltern zu unterscheiden. Die Größe des Consorts schwankt seitdem zwischen 15 und 22 der 53 Cousins und Cousinen ersten Grades. Um David und den Einfluss, den er auf uns alle als Musiker hatte, zu ehren, besteht diese Aufnahme aus Musikstücken, die er uns während seiner Jahre in der Holy Redeemer Church vorstellte und die wir seitdem als Chor lieben gelernt haben. "

The Bevan Family Consort
Graham Ross, Dirigent

Graham Ross
has established an exceptional reputation as a sought-after conductor and composer of a very broad range of repertoire. He is co-founder and Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble and Director of Music and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, with whom his performances around the world and his extensive discography have earned consistently high praise. In demand as a regular guest conductor of other ensembles in the UK and abroad, recent collaborations have included London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, Purcell School, and Australian Chamber Orchestra. Highlights in the 2022/23 season include return engagements to BBC Singers, London Mozart Players, Aalborg Symfoniorkester, DR Vokal Ensemblet, and Salomon Orchestra, and debuts with Music in the Round, Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra, Tallis Vocalis in Hong Kong, and concerts with the Choir of Clare College across the UK and overseas in Denmark, the Netherlands, and the USA.

At the age of 25 he made his BBC Proms and Glyndebourne debuts, with other opera work taking him to Jerusalem, London, Aldeburgh and Provence. He has conducted and recorded world premières of a wide spectrum of composers, including James MacMillan, Judith Bingham, Giles Swayne, Vaughan Williams, Imogen Holst, Nico Muhly, Brett Dean, Lydia Kakabadse and Matthew Martin. He has conducted more than twenty albums and since 2011 he has recorded exclusively for Harmonia Mundi, including a highly-acclaimed series of music for the church year. His latest album Ice Land: The Eternal Music was released in 2022.

As a composer commissions have included BBC Concert Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, O Duo, Park Lane Group, Wigmore Hall and the Solstice Quartet. As an animateur and through outreach work he has conducted projects in Tower Hamlets, Wigmore Hall, English National Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and overseas in Nigeria, Palestine, across Europe and the USA. He is founder and Artistic Director of Singers Abroad, running annual courses for singers of all ages, and a Trustee and Patron of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music. He is a regular contibutor on BBC Radio, including as a recent guest presenter of Inside Music. In 2021 he was made an Honorary Fellow the University of Macau, where he was presented with a Half Moon Award for the Arts in 2019.

He studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and conducting at the Royal College of Music, London. He held a conducting scholarship with the London Symphony Chorus, has served as assistant conductor for Vladimir Juroswki, Diego Masson, Sir Roger Norrington and Nicholas Collon, and acted as Chorus Master for Sir Colin Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Ivor Bolton, Edward Gardner, Richard Tognetti and Lars Ulrik Mortensen.

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