In Remembrance: Choral Music by Ireland, Holst, Parry, Elgar, Faure, Venables
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0187
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 28th September 2018
Contents
Works
They are at restRequiem, op.48 (arr. Iain Farrington)
For the fallen
O Valiant Hearts
I vow to thee, my country
Ode to death, op.38 (arr. Iain Farrington)
Greater love hath no man
Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings
JerusalemThere is an old belief
Justorum animae
Requiem aeternam
Artists
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaChelsea Pensioners’ Choir
Katy Hill (soprano)
Leah Jackson (soprano)
Gareth John (baritone)
James Orford (organ)
Hugh Rowlands (organ)
Conductor
William VannWorks
They are at restRequiem, op.48 (arr. Iain Farrington)
For the fallen
O Valiant Hearts
I vow to thee, my country
Ode to death, op.38 (arr. Iain Farrington)
Greater love hath no man
Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings
JerusalemThere is an old belief
Justorum animae
Requiem aeternam
Artists
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaChelsea Pensioners’ Choir
Katy Hill (soprano)
Leah Jackson (soprano)
Gareth John (baritone)
James Orford (organ)
Hugh Rowlands (organ)
Conductor
William VannAbout
A moving compendium of music spanning 130 years, it features the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the Choir of Chelsea Pensioners, Staff and Volunteers, sopranos Katy Hill and Leah Jackson, baritone Gareth John and organists James Orford and Hugh Rowlands under the direction of William Vann.
Founded in 1682 by King Charles II, the Royal Hospital is home to the world-famous Chelsea Pensioners – retired veterans of the British army – whose contributions on three tracks adds its own special poignancy to In Remembrance.
Moving choral works commemorating courage and offering comfort by Hubert Parry (his anthemic Jerusalem), Gustav Holst (the stirring I Vow to Thee, My Country) and Edward Elgar (his serene partsong They are at rest) are heard alongside equally affecting pieces by their contemporaries and successors, Charles Villiers Stanford, John Ireland, Douglas Guest and Charles Harris.
Fauré’s Requiem, arranged for choir and organ by Iain Farrington, and Ian Venable’s newly-composed Requiem aeternam (in its first recording) both offer succour and solace in their conviction that death is not the end but, as Fauré thought of it: “a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience”.
Carols from Chelsea, the Chapel Royal Choir, James Orford and William Vann’s first release on SOMM in 2016, was praised for its “luminous, adroitly crafted” singing by Choir & Organ magazine.
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