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Release Date: 03 July 2026
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7080930000052
Composer/Series: Earthly Solace - Eton Choirbook Reconstructions II
Description
I'm delighted to be bringing this second part of our Eton Choirbook recording project into the world, to follow the first instalment, Heavenly Light. The second album moves away from the work of Wylkynson and consists of pieces by seven other composers, five in reconstructions by Russell Blacker, and two - Banester's O Maria et Elizabeth and Browne's Stabat Iuxta Christi Crucem - which are preserved complete in the manuscript. It is these two pieces which frame the album and inspired its title, Earthly Solace - in contrast to the purely celestial focus of the rest of the texts, they both have a very direct relation to events happening in the English royal family at the time of their composition, and bookend specifically the life of Arthur, ill-fated elder brother of the future Henry VIII. - Daniel Gilchrist
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Choir Of New College Oxford
The Choir of Jesus College; Benjamin Sheen
Selene; Daniel Gilchrist; Will Prior
Selene; Daniel Gilchrist
Veneta Neynska
Sheen
The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, Adam Field, Sarah MacDonald
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, Sachin Gunga, David Price
Choirs Of Kings College Cambridge & Christ Church, Oxford
True Concord Voices and Orchestra; Susanna Phillips; Tucson Girls Chorus; Eric Holtan; Marcella Mol
Laura Catrani
Gaechinger Cantorey; Hans-Christoph Rademann
Gaechinger Cantorey; Hans-Christoph Rademann
Conspirare; Thomas Burrit; Craig Hella Johnson
