When first thine eies unveil: Choral Music by Herbert Howells
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0140
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st September 2014
Contents
Works
AntiphonBefore me careless lying
Haec dies
In youth is pleasure
Levavi oculos eos
Long, Long Ago
Mass in the Dorian Mode
My eyes for beauty pine
Nunc Dimittis
O Mortal Man
O Salutaris Hostia
Regina caeli
Salve Regina
Walking in the Snow
When first thine eies unveil
Artists
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber ChoirConductor
Paul SpicerWorks
AntiphonBefore me careless lying
Haec dies
In youth is pleasure
Levavi oculos eos
Long, Long Ago
Mass in the Dorian Mode
My eyes for beauty pine
Nunc Dimittis
O Mortal Man
O Salutaris Hostia
Regina caeli
Salve Regina
Walking in the Snow
When first thine eies unveil
Artists
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber ChoirConductor
Paul SpicerAbout
This recording brings together for the first time Howells’ complete extant Latin church music for Westminster Cathedral, composed when he was a student of Stanford at the RCM. It also features other significant rarely (if ever) heard music, including a first recording of the extraordinary Holst-like anthem When first thine eies unveil which was written at the same time as Mine eyes for beauty pine.
It also includes for the first time another pairing, Walking in the Snow with Long, Long Ago written for George Guest’s Lady Margaret Singers in Cambridge. Additionally, there is another premiere, Levavi oculos, Paul Spicer’s reconstruction of a wedding anthem for Hereford Cathedral, and Howells’ lovely arrangement of the Sussex Mummers’ Carol: O Mortal Man.
The disc ends with one of Howells’ last motets: the ferocious and challenging Antiphon, setting George Herbert’s famous words ‘Let all the world’.
This is the third recording in a continuing collaboration between SOMM and Paul Spicer’s Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, which continues to yield many riches.
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