Sword in the Soul: Grier, Elgar, Bednall, Park | Orchid Classics ORC100223

Sword in the Soul: Grier, Elgar, Bednall, Park

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Label: Orchid Classics

Cat No: ORC100223

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 21st April 2023

Contents

Artists

Simon Callow (narrator)
Samantha Bond (narrator)
Adrian Peacock (narrator)
London Choral Sinfonia

Conductor

Michael Waldron

Works

Bainton, Edgar

And I saw a new Heaven (orch. Owain Park)

Bednall, David

Nunc dimittis

Elgar, Edward

Enigma Variations, op.36
» Variation no.9 'Nimrod' (arr. John Cameron as 'Lux aeterna')
With Proud Thanksgiving
» We will remember them

Grier, Francis

Sword in the Soul

Park, Owain

Hail, gladdening Light

Artists

Simon Callow (narrator)
Samantha Bond (narrator)
Adrian Peacock (narrator)
London Choral Sinfonia

Conductor

Michael Waldron

About

In an album that includes world-premiere recordings, Michael Waldron and the London Choral Sinfonia perform Francis Grier’s modern-day Passion, Sword in the Soul, to texts by Rowan Williams narrated by Simon Callow, Samantha Bond and Adrian Peacock.

Alongside Grier’s Sword in the Soul, we hear Lux aeterna, the profoundly moving choral setting of Elgar’s famous ‘Nimrod’ from his Enigma Variations, as well as a rarely-heard piece by Elgar recorded only once before: the intensely poignant We Will Remember Them, a beautiful and simple a cappella arrangement of a famous text.

The album also features music by contemporary composer David Bednall, and LCS’s Composer in Residence Owain Park.

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