English Visionaries: Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0159
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd September 2016
Contents
Works
Sing me the men, op.43 no.2The Evening Watch, op.43 no.1
The House of the Mind
A Vision of Aeroplanes
Lord, thou hast been our refuge
Mass in G minor
Prayer to the Father of Heaven
Artists
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber ChoirNicholas Morris (organ)
Conductor
Paul SpicerWorks
Sing me the men, op.43 no.2The Evening Watch, op.43 no.1
The House of the Mind
A Vision of Aeroplanes
Lord, thou hast been our refuge
Mass in G minor
Prayer to the Father of Heaven
Artists
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber ChoirNicholas Morris (organ)
Conductor
Paul SpicerAbout
Above all, the repertoire chosen by Paul Spicer for this disc dispels the thought that the music of Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, and Herbert Howells is ‘English’ in a derogatory sense, recalling more Elisabeth Lutyen’s ‘cowpat school’ label than that of ‘visionary’. As is amply demonstrated here, all three were composers of enormous transcendent vision, forging a uniquely English musical revolution.
One need only hear the soaring lines of Howells’s The House of the Mind to recall the rarefied ecstasy of his better-known Hymnus Paradisi. The inexorable build of Vaughan Williams’s Lord, Thou Hast Been our Refuge scales similar heights, as does the otherworldly harmonic and contrapuntal landscape of Holst’s The Evening Watch and Sing Me the Men. Vaughan Williams’s status as a revolutionary is strongly evident in his Mass in G minor, a sublimation of late renaissance music into something powerfully new. He dedicated this inspired work to his friend Gustav Holst in 1921. His post-war (1956), technically virtuosic A Vision of Aeroplanes provides an enormous challenge to the performers, and a marked contrast to the warmth of Prayer to the Father of Heaven with which they open the disc.
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