Cornhill Visions: A Century of Musical Innovation
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Label: Regent Records
Cat No: REGCD550
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 14th February 2020
Contents
Works
MagnificatBe strong and of a good courage
Even such is time
O gladsome light
The eyes of all
Here rests his head
Da pacem Domine
memoria
Psalm 79 (O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance)
Jesu, the very thought of Thee
A Vision of Aeroplanes
Lord, thou hast been our refuge
Valiant for truth
Artists
The Choir of St Michael’s CornhillConductor
Jonathan RennertWorks
MagnificatBe strong and of a good courage
Even such is time
O gladsome light
The eyes of all
Here rests his head
Da pacem Domine
memoria
Psalm 79 (O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance)
Jesu, the very thought of Thee
A Vision of Aeroplanes
Lord, thou hast been our refuge
Valiant for truth
Artists
The Choir of St Michael’s CornhillConductor
Jonathan RennertAbout
The past one hundred years have seen just three Directors of Music: Harold Darke, appointed in 1916; Richard Popplewell who succeeded him in 1966; and Jonathan Rennert, appointed in 1979, and celebrating 40 years at St Michael’s in 2019.
During that period many composers have written music for the Choir of St Michael’s, and its sister group, St Michael’s Singers, including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, Sir William Harris, Sir George Dyson, William Mathias, Kenneth Leighton, Michael Berkeley, Ruth Byrchmore, and Sir Stephen Cleobury – creating an enviable legacy of ground-breaking, and often visionary, works. Today, a younger generation of composers is being nurtured, through such initiatives as the appointment of a Composer-in-Residence.
The programme is built around four seminal works of the twentieth-century English choral tradition: Vaughan Williams’s post-war hymn of thanksgiving Lord, Thou hast been our refuge; his apocalyptic and technically-demanding A Vision of Aeroplanes; and Valiant-for-Truth – a setting of mystical religious words by John Bunyan, here given an emotionally powerful quiet ending, as suggested by Vaughan Williams himself, and differing from both the published score and all other recordings. Arnold Bax’s virtuoso and quirky setting of the Magnificat forms the centrepiece of the programme.
Around these pillars are first recordings of a selection of works by Harold Darke, two recent compositions by the current young Composer in Residence, Rhiannon Randle, and new works from Gareth Treseder, Philip Moore, and Director of Music, Jonathan Rennert.
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