English Anthems
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Composer or Director: (John) Nicholas Maw, Edward (Woodall) Naylor, Herbert Howells, Jonathan Dean Harvey, Judith Weir, Kenneth Leighton, Lennox (Randall Francis) Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Edgar (Leslie) Bainton, William (Henry) Harris, John (Nicholson) Ireland, William Walton, Charles Wood
Label: British Composers
Magazine Review Date: 6/1993
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 72
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 754418-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Hail, gladdening light |
Charles Wood, Composer
Charles Wood, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
And I saw a new heaven |
Edgar (Leslie) Bainton, Composer
Christopher Hughes, Organ Edgar (Leslie) Bainton, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Greater love hath no man |
John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer
Christopher Hughes, Organ John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Faire is the Heaven |
William (Henry) Harris, Composer
King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor William (Henry) Harris, Composer |
Vox dicentis: Clama |
Edward (Woodall) Naylor, Composer
Edward (Woodall) Naylor, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Like as the hart |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Christopher Hughes, Organ Herbert Howells, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Set me as a seal upon thine heart |
William Walton, Composer
King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor William Walton, Composer |
(The) Lord is my Shepherd |
Lennox (Randall Francis) Berkeley, Composer
Christopher Hughes, Organ King's College Choir, Cambridge Lennox (Randall Francis) Berkeley, Composer Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
(A) Hymn of St Columba, 'Regis regum rectissimi' |
Benjamin Britten, Composer
Benjamin Britten, Composer Christopher Hughes, Organ King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Let all the world in every corner sing |
Kenneth Leighton, Composer
Christopher Hughes, Organ Kenneth Leighton, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
I love the Lord |
Jonathan Dean Harvey, Composer
Jonathan Dean Harvey, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
One foot in Eden still, I stand |
(John) Nicholas Maw, Composer
(John) Nicholas Maw, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Ascending into Heaven (Me receptet Sion illa) |
Judith Weir, Composer
Judith Weir, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Author:
The record catalogues are nowadays comparatively rich in alternative versions. Without trying very hard, I found four other recordings of Edgar Bainton's And I saw a new heaven on the shelves, including one by St Paul's, London (Hyperion), and another by St Paul's, Dundee (Abbey Alpha). The London Cathedral is expansive and rapt, the Scottish one quicker and more urgent, King's somewhere in between. Quite often in this recital the King's style, without being quite so refined as it used to be, seems to be less spirited and individual than it might. Some of the best work is done in the most modern of the compositions: I love the Lord with its contrast of easy common-chord harmony and grinding dissonance, Ascending into heaven with its sophisticated primitivism, and perhaps finest of all the anthem which Nicholas Maw wrote for the College's 550th anniversary in 1991, sensitively and economically setting the thoughtful words of Edwin Muir. With this as its concluding item, the record offers a representative anthology of the English anthem post-Stanford, with performances fully worthy of the strikingly worthy material.'
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