Anthems, Vol. 1 The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge & Stephen Layton
Album info
Album-Release:
2023
HRA-Release:
28.07.2023
Label: Hyperion
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Artist: The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge & Stephen Layton
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876), Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Herbert Howells (1892-1983), Patrick Gowers (1936-2014), James MacMillan (1959), Francis John Dolben Pott (1957)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
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- Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934):
- 1 Elgar: Great is the Lord, Op. 67 10:13
- Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810 - 1876):
- 2 Wesley: The Wilderness 13:44
- Edward Elgar:
- 3 Elgar: Give unto the Lord, Op. 74 08:20
- Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983):
- 4 Howells: The House of the Mind 09:21
- Paul Spicer (b. 1952):
- 5 Spicer: Come Out, Lazar 06:51
- Patrick Gowers (1936 - 2014):
- 6 Gowers: Viri Galilaei 07:19
- James MacMillan (b. 1959):
- 7 MacMillan: O Give Thanks unto the Lord 06:32
- Francis Pott (b. 1957):
- 8 Pott: Toccata 10:43
- David Bednall (b. 1979):
- 9 Bednall: Everyone Sang 05:40
Info for Anthems, Vol. 1
Edward Elgar was a great admirer of Samuel Sebastian Wesley, and late in his life, in May 1923, he made an orchestration of the organ part of Wesley’s anthem Let us lift up our heart, the first performance of which was given at the Worcester Three Choirs Festival in September that year. Unfortunately, the manuscript is now lost. Though not readily associated with Anglican church music (despite being fully aware of its repertoire), Elgar composed two major extended anthems. The first—Great is the Lord, Op 67, a substantial multi-sectional work, begun in 1910—is a setting of Psalm 48 and was eventually used to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Royal Society in 1912. It was first sung in Westminster Abbey on 16 July of that year under the baton of the Abbey’s director of music Sir Frederick Bridge. In the ebullient outer sections in D major, it is possible to hear echoes of the finale of Elgar’s violin concerto (‘is mount Zion, on the sides of the north’) as a counterpoint to the main theme, while the contrasting inner sections seem to draw more extensively on the style of thematic material first heard in The Apostles and The Kingdom, in particular the episode for baritone solo (‘We have thought on thy loving-kindness’). ...
Trinity College Choir Cambridge
Stephen Layton, conductor
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Booklet for Anthems, Vol. 1