David Hill, The Choir of St John’s Cambridge - Bairstow: Choral Music (2007)
BAND/ARTIST: David Hill, The Choir of St John’s Cambridge
- Title: Bairstow: Choral Music
- Year Of Release: 2007
- Label: Hyperion
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:02:44
- Total Size: 235 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. 3 Introits or Short Anthems: II. Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee
02. Blessed City, Heavenly Salem
03. Service in D: Evening Canticle 1. Magnificat
04. Service in D: Evening Canticle 2. Nunc dimittis
05. Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge
06. If the Lord Had Not Helped Me
07. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
08. Evening Service in G: I. Magnificat
09. Evening Service in G: II. Nunc dimittis
10. 5 Poems of the Spirit: I. Come, Lovely Name
11. 5 Poems of the Spirit: II. O Lord, in Me There Lieth Naught
12. 5 Poems of the Spirit: III. Praise
13. 5 Poems of the Spirit: IV. Purse and Scrip
14. 5 Poems of the Spirit: V. L'Envoy
15. Save Us, O Lord
Another great disc from the dazzling Choir of St John’s College Cambridge under their Director of Music David Hill, collaborating with great musicians including Roderick Williams, Paul Provost and the Britten Sinfonia.
The music of Edward Bairstow (1874–1946) is an essential part of the British cathedral music tradition. He set his texts ‘with a beauty which makes one never able to think of the words without recalling the music’, as the Dean of York wrote on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Certainly the more well-known works on this disc eminently fulfill this criterion. St John’s’ inspired recordings of these classic numbers in the matchless acoustic of the chapel make this a disc to treasure on these grounds alone.
However it also includes some glorious rarities from different points in Bairstow’s career, which demonstrate his mastery of different styles and developing harmonic language. The Five Poems of the Spirit are a particular highlight: beautiful and unusual settings of metaphysical poetry for solo baritone, choir and orchestra, performed with passionate commitment by the wonderful Roderick Williams.
01. 3 Introits or Short Anthems: II. Jesu, the Very Thought of Thee
02. Blessed City, Heavenly Salem
03. Service in D: Evening Canticle 1. Magnificat
04. Service in D: Evening Canticle 2. Nunc dimittis
05. Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge
06. If the Lord Had Not Helped Me
07. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
08. Evening Service in G: I. Magnificat
09. Evening Service in G: II. Nunc dimittis
10. 5 Poems of the Spirit: I. Come, Lovely Name
11. 5 Poems of the Spirit: II. O Lord, in Me There Lieth Naught
12. 5 Poems of the Spirit: III. Praise
13. 5 Poems of the Spirit: IV. Purse and Scrip
14. 5 Poems of the Spirit: V. L'Envoy
15. Save Us, O Lord
Another great disc from the dazzling Choir of St John’s College Cambridge under their Director of Music David Hill, collaborating with great musicians including Roderick Williams, Paul Provost and the Britten Sinfonia.
The music of Edward Bairstow (1874–1946) is an essential part of the British cathedral music tradition. He set his texts ‘with a beauty which makes one never able to think of the words without recalling the music’, as the Dean of York wrote on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Certainly the more well-known works on this disc eminently fulfill this criterion. St John’s’ inspired recordings of these classic numbers in the matchless acoustic of the chapel make this a disc to treasure on these grounds alone.
However it also includes some glorious rarities from different points in Bairstow’s career, which demonstrate his mastery of different styles and developing harmonic language. The Five Poems of the Spirit are a particular highlight: beautiful and unusual settings of metaphysical poetry for solo baritone, choir and orchestra, performed with passionate commitment by the wonderful Roderick Williams.
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