HOPE SOARS ABOVE Truro Cathedral Choir & James Anderson-Besant

• Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625): O Thou, the central orb:
• 1 Gibbons: O Thou, the central orb 04:06
• William Byrd (1543 - 1623): Sing joyfully:
• 2 Byrd: Sing joyfully 02:41
• Orlando Gibbons: Second Evening Service:
• 3 Gibbons: Second Evening Service: Magnificat 05:44
• 4 Gibbons: Second Evening Service: Nunc dimittis 03:25
• Fantazia of foure parts:
• 5 Gibbons: Fantazia of foure parts 05:12
• Out of the deep:
• 6 Gibbons: Out of the deep 05:35
• John Bull (1562/63 - 1628): Almighty God, which by the leading of a star:
• 7 Bull: Almighty God, which by the leading of a star 04:46
• William Byrd: Fantasia in C:
• 8 Byrd: Fantasia in C 06:23
• Orlando Gibbons: Short Evening Service:
• 9 Gibbons: Short Evening Service: Magnificat 03:21
• 10 Gibbons: Short Evening Service: Nunc dimittis 03:29
• Thomas Tomkins (1572 - 1656): A Sad Pavan for these distracted times:
• 11 Tomkins: A Sad Pavan for these distracted times 05:35
• Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom:
• 12 Tomkins: Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom 06:15
• Total Runtime 56:32

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Aufbauend auf der langjährigen und fruchtbaren Zusammenarbeit von Regent mit dem Truro Cathedral Choir freuen wir uns, die erste Aufnahme des Chors unter der Leitung seines neu ernannten Musikdirektors James Anderson-Besant zu veröffentlichen. Die Aufnahme, die anlässlich des 400. Todestages von Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625) in diesem Jahr erscheint, stellt geistliche Chor- und Orgelwerke von Gibbons selbst denen seiner Zeitgenossen William Byrd, John Bull und Thomas Tomkins gegenüber. Enthalten sind zwei von Gibbons’ beliebtesten Abendgottesdiensten sowie sowohl populäre als auch selten aufgenommene Anthems von drei der berühmtesten englischen Komponisten des ersten Viertels des 17. Jahrhunderts.

Die Aufnahme enthält außerdem drei Solo-Orgelwerke, von denen zwei auf der historischen John-Byfield-Orgel im Marienschiff der Kathedrale gespielt werden, deren Pfeifenwerk aus dem Jahr 1750 stammt. Der inspirierende Titel der Aufnahme, „Hope soars above“, ist einer Zeile der Eröffnungshymne entlehnt: „O thou the central orb“. Diese Worte schrieb Henry Ramsden Bramley 1873, um den ursprünglichen Text von Gibbons’ Hymne „O all true faithful hearts“ aus dem Jahr 1619 zu ersetzen, die nur selten zur Danksagung für die Genesung von König Jakob VI. verwendet wurde. Bramleys strahlender Text trug dazu bei, die Popularität und den Gebrauch dieser zuvor in Vergessenheit geratenen, schönen Hymne zu steigern.

Der Chor der Kathedrale von Truro hat sich in den letzten dreißig Jahren durch seine Rundfunk- und Tonaufnahmen einen internationalen Ruf als einer der besten Kathedralchöre Großbritanniens erworben. Sein Musikdirektor, James Anderson-Besant, war Orgelstipendiat und anschließend Assistenzorganist am St John’s College in Cambridge. Darauf folgte eine Zeit als stellvertretender Musikdirektor an der Kathedrale von Exeter, bevor er 2023 zum jüngsten Kathedralmusikdirektor des Landes in Truro ernannt wurde.

Truro Cathedral Choir
James Anderson-Besant, Leitung

Truro Cathedral Choir
has an unbroken tradition dating back to the 1880s. The choir currently has 12 adult professional singers and 34 boy and girl choristers. We perform much-loved works from the last five centuries of the Anglican Choral Tradition, and are also proud to commission and record new choral works by established composers, as well as promising young artists.

The choir perform in concerts at home and abroad, on broadcasts and recordings, inspiring others and raising awareness of the power of music.

James Anderson-Besant
Born in 1998, grew up in Oxfordshire. He started learning the keyboard at primary school with Judith Ward, who ran the choir at St Helen’s Church, Benson; James joined the choir and later became its organist. He learnt to play the organ with James Brown at Abingdon School, where he held academic and music scholarships.

After taking a gap year as the Organ Scholar of Gloucester Cathedral, which included teaching the first girl choristers in the Cathedral’s history, James then spent four years as Organ Scholar, then Assistant Organist, of St John’s College Cambridge. With the College Choir, he accompanied services, broadcasts, recordings and tours under the direction of Andrew Nethsingha, and helped train the choristers. He has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, and his playing for St John’s appears on many acclaimed CD releases, including Advent Live II, Ash Wednesday, and The Psalms. An organ student of Stephen Farr, James won second prize at the 2019 Northern Ireland International Organ Competition. He graduated in 2020 with a double starred first degree in music, and during the following year supervised Cambridge music students in harmony and keyboard skills. While at university, James organised and directed student performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and St John Passion.

From 2021-2023, James was Assistant Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral, where he played the organ for the Cathedral’s services, and assisted Timothy Noon in the training of the choristers and in the choir’s musical rebound from the coronavirus pandemic. He also directed the St Peter’s Singers, the cathedral’s auditioned voluntary choir.

In 2023, at the age of twenty-four, James was appointed Director of Music and Organist of Truro Cathedral, becoming the youngest cathedral organist in the country. At Truro, James directs the Cathedral Choir in its daily rehearsals and services, and is responsible for all aspects of the Cathedral’s musical output. He is very excited to have the opportunity to direct the wonderful musicians of the Three Spires Singers and Orchestra, and looks forward to widening his knowledge of the major choral and orchestral repertoire in Three Spires’ busy schedule. In his spare time James enjoys walking, exploring Cornwall, and reading about history and engineering.

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