034571178530

Howells: The Winchester Service & Other Late Works

Andrew Lumsden: Winchester Cathedral Choir

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67853

Release Date:  01 June 2011

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571178530

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

  • Description

    Hyperion’s previous recordings with Winchester Cathedral Choir are among the jewels in its choral collection. Now the label begins a new relationship with this ancient foundation and its latest director of music, Andrew Lumsden. Their new disc features a composer who was at the centre of the English twentieth-century choral tradition.
    Herbert Howells’ is a unique and distinctive voice in church music and it is his lyrical anthem Like as the hart and his compositions of the 1940s and 50s for which he is most known and celebrated. However, his late works are equal in beauty and intensity and it is these that are featured on this superb recording. They are often over-looked as a result of their difficulty but Winchester Cathedral Choir reveal them as unjustly neglected gems.
    The Winchester Service, written in 1969, has its roots in plainchant and demonstrates the composer’s chromatic sophistication and the incredible depth of his harmonic palette. The choir display a clear affinity with the composer. They perform with sensitivity and precision and their glorious sound is quintessentially English.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Jubilate Deo St Peter ad Vincula
      • 2. Thee will I love
      • 3. The Winchester Service
      • 4. Rhapsody No 4 solo organ
      • 5. Come, my soul
      • 6. Te Deum St Mary Redcliffe
      • 7. Coventry Antiphon
      • 8. A Flourish for a Bidding solo organ
      • 9. Antiphon
      • 10. The fear of the Lord
      • 11. Exultate Deo