St Johns Cambridge / George Guest- Benjamin Britten: Choral Music
"Benjamin Britten had a rare genius for setting words to music, becoming one of the most successful choral composers of the 20th Century... Voices and organ make a mystical union, spotlighting their sonorous incompatibilities... Rejoice: "Once again the composer extracts a first-rate performance" "Gloriana Dances: choral singing of such quality... balance of the recording... exceptionally life-like and satisfactory, and the sound as good as I have heard... no carol is more perfect in it's simplicity than his Hymn to the Virgin... I also enjoy Britten's church music from New College, Oxford, directed by David Lumsden. This includes the Hymn to St Cecilia." (Gramophone)
Tracklist:
- St. Johns Cambridge: Festival Te Deum (ST. John's)
- A Hymn to the Virgin (ST. John's)
- Missa Brevis (Worcester) ; Kyrie
- Gloria
- Sanctus ; Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
- Hymn to St Cecilia (New College)
- Rejoice in the Lamb (Purcell Singers)
- Choral Dances from 'Gloriana' (L.S.O Choir) ; Time
- Concord
- Time ; Concord
- Country Girls
- Rustics ; Fishermen
- Final Dance of Homage
- Jubilate Deo (Trinity College)
- Carry Her Over the Water (Trinity College)
- Deus in Adjutorium Meum (Trinity College)
- Venite Exultemus Domino (Trinity College)
- Jubilate Deo (1934) (Trinity College)
UPC > 5055354414336
Format > New CD
Label > Alto
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"Benjamin Britten had a rare genius for setting words to music, becoming one of the most successful choral composers of the 20th Century... Voices and organ make a mystical union, spotlighting their sonorous incompatibilities... Rejoice: "Once again the composer extracts a first-rate performance" "Gloriana Dances: choral singing of such quality... balance of the recording... exceptionally life-like and satisfactory, and the sound as good as I have heard... no carol is more perfect in it's simplicity than his Hymn to the Virgin... I also enjoy Britten's church music from New College, Oxford, directed by David Lumsden. This includes the Hymn to St Cecilia." (Gramophone)
Tracklist:
- St. Johns Cambridge: Festival Te Deum (ST. John's)
- A Hymn to the Virgin (ST. John's)
- Missa Brevis (Worcester) ; Kyrie
- Gloria
- Sanctus ; Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
- Hymn to St Cecilia (New College)
- Rejoice in the Lamb (Purcell Singers)
- Choral Dances from 'Gloriana' (L.S.O Choir) ; Time
- Concord
- Time ; Concord
- Country Girls
- Rustics ; Fishermen
- Final Dance of Homage
- Jubilate Deo (Trinity College)
- Carry Her Over the Water (Trinity College)
- Deus in Adjutorium Meum (Trinity College)
- Venite Exultemus Domino (Trinity College)
- Jubilate Deo (1934) (Trinity College)
UPC > 5055354414336
Format > New CD
Label > Alto
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.