Susan Chilcott, BBC Philharmonic, Britten Singers, Richard Hickox - World of the Spirit (1996)
BAND/ARTIST: Susan Chilcott, BBC Philharmonic, Britten Singers, Richard Hickox
- Title: World of the Spirit
- Year Of Release: 1996
- Label: Chandos
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 01:18:22
- Total Size: 301 Mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1 An American Overture 10:34
King Arthur: Suite For Orchestra (25:34)
2 I. Overture: Fanfare – Introduction – The Lady Of The Lake – Wedding March 3:44
3 II. Scherzo: Doom – Wild Dance – Death Music – Wild Dance 7:21
4 III. Variations: Galahad – Graal Music 6:46
5 IV. Finale: Battle 7:36
The World Of The Spirit (42:09)
6 1. Prelude 1:10
7 I Will Pour Out My Spirit On All Flesh 0:16
8 2. O Thou That Movest All 1:48
9 The Comforter, The Holy Spirit 2:11
10 3. The Sun, The Moon, The Stars 1:09
11 And, Behold, The Lord Passed By 0:34
12 4a. This Is My Commandment 1:28
13 4b. With Wide-embracing Love 2:42
14 Lord Make Me See Thy Glory 0:35
15 5. O Life, O Love, Now Undivided 4:05
16 Where The Spirit Of The Lord Is, There Is Liberty 0:11
17 6a. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love, Joy, Peace 0:38
18 6b. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love 0:34
19 One Day In November 1682 1:09
20 6c. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Faith 0:25
21 And Jesus Went Away 1:13
22 6d. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Goodness, Is Meekness 0:45
23 The Chief Rabbi Abraham Bloch 1:19
24 6e. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Long-suffering 0:39
25 When James Connolly, The Irish Rebel 1:23
26 6f. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Joy 0:50
27 St Francis Of Assisi 1:02
28 7. The Spirit Of The Lord 3:57
29 Spirit To Whom My Spirit Would Reply 1:45
30 8. O Knowing, Glorious Spirit! 2:10
31 I Went Out One Afternoon 1:16
32 9. The World Is Charged 2:26
33 God Is A Spirit 0:43
34 10. Come, O Creator Spirit, Come 3:45
Performers:
Cormac Rigby, Hannah Gordon (speakers)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Susan Chilcott (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Britten Singers
Richard Hickox
1 An American Overture 10:34
King Arthur: Suite For Orchestra (25:34)
2 I. Overture: Fanfare – Introduction – The Lady Of The Lake – Wedding March 3:44
3 II. Scherzo: Doom – Wild Dance – Death Music – Wild Dance 7:21
4 III. Variations: Galahad – Graal Music 6:46
5 IV. Finale: Battle 7:36
The World Of The Spirit (42:09)
6 1. Prelude 1:10
7 I Will Pour Out My Spirit On All Flesh 0:16
8 2. O Thou That Movest All 1:48
9 The Comforter, The Holy Spirit 2:11
10 3. The Sun, The Moon, The Stars 1:09
11 And, Behold, The Lord Passed By 0:34
12 4a. This Is My Commandment 1:28
13 4b. With Wide-embracing Love 2:42
14 Lord Make Me See Thy Glory 0:35
15 5. O Life, O Love, Now Undivided 4:05
16 Where The Spirit Of The Lord Is, There Is Liberty 0:11
17 6a. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love, Joy, Peace 0:38
18 6b. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love 0:34
19 One Day In November 1682 1:09
20 6c. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Faith 0:25
21 And Jesus Went Away 1:13
22 6d. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Goodness, Is Meekness 0:45
23 The Chief Rabbi Abraham Bloch 1:19
24 6e. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Long-suffering 0:39
25 When James Connolly, The Irish Rebel 1:23
26 6f. The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Joy 0:50
27 St Francis Of Assisi 1:02
28 7. The Spirit Of The Lord 3:57
29 Spirit To Whom My Spirit Would Reply 1:45
30 8. O Knowing, Glorious Spirit! 2:10
31 I Went Out One Afternoon 1:16
32 9. The World Is Charged 2:26
33 God Is A Spirit 0:43
34 10. Come, O Creator Spirit, Come 3:45
Performers:
Cormac Rigby, Hannah Gordon (speakers)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Susan Chilcott (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic
Britten Singers
Richard Hickox
Hickox's performance of the Coplandesque AnAmerican Overture has exemplary polish, commitment and dash. The remaining items owe their revival to the efforts of Paul Hindmarsh.
Britten wrote his incidental music for a BBC radio dramatisation of the King Arthur legend in 1937. It was the first of his 28 radio commissions and contains much high-quality invention.
Hindmarsh has fashioned the 23-year-old composer's inventive inspiration into a terrific fourmovement orchestral suite lasting some 25 minutes, which Hickox and the BBC PO devour with audible relish.
The 'radio cantata' The World of the Spirit dates from May 1938. Commissioned by the BBC as a successor to The Company of Heaven (1937), it intersperses sung and spoken texts chosen by R Ellis Roberts. Again, Britten's fertile compositional powers are much in evidence.
The work contains a whole string of memorable numbers, from the lilting barcarolle- like treatment of Emily Brontë's 'With wide-embracing love', via the joyful strut and swagger of Part-2's concluding 'The Spirit of the Lord' with its unmistakable echoes of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, to a strikingly imaginative setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins's God'sGrandeur. Framing the 42-minute edifice are two radiant settings of the Whitsuntide plainsong, Veni Creator Spiritus – an idea possibly inspired by a recent encounter with Mahler's Eighth Symphony at the Queen's Hall under Sir Henry Wood.
The recording is superbly wide in its range and offers a realistic quality.
Britten wrote his incidental music for a BBC radio dramatisation of the King Arthur legend in 1937. It was the first of his 28 radio commissions and contains much high-quality invention.
Hindmarsh has fashioned the 23-year-old composer's inventive inspiration into a terrific fourmovement orchestral suite lasting some 25 minutes, which Hickox and the BBC PO devour with audible relish.
The 'radio cantata' The World of the Spirit dates from May 1938. Commissioned by the BBC as a successor to The Company of Heaven (1937), it intersperses sung and spoken texts chosen by R Ellis Roberts. Again, Britten's fertile compositional powers are much in evidence.
The work contains a whole string of memorable numbers, from the lilting barcarolle- like treatment of Emily Brontë's 'With wide-embracing love', via the joyful strut and swagger of Part-2's concluding 'The Spirit of the Lord' with its unmistakable echoes of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, to a strikingly imaginative setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins's God'sGrandeur. Framing the 42-minute edifice are two radiant settings of the Whitsuntide plainsong, Veni Creator Spiritus – an idea possibly inspired by a recent encounter with Mahler's Eighth Symphony at the Queen's Hall under Sir Henry Wood.
The recording is superbly wide in its range and offers a realistic quality.
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