Vaughan Williams - Mass in G minor, Te Deum, etc.
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Label: Signum
Cat No: SIGCD541
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 18th May 2018
Contents
Works
Lord, thou hast been our refugeMass in G minor
Mystical Songs (5)
O taste and see
O vos omnes
Prayer to the Father of Heaven
Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes (3) for organ
Artists
The Choir of St John’s College, CambridgeConductor
Andrew NethsinghaWorks
Lord, thou hast been our refugeMass in G minor
Mystical Songs (5)
O taste and see
O vos omnes
Prayer to the Father of Heaven
Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes (3) for organ
Artists
The Choir of St John’s College, CambridgeConductor
Andrew NethsinghaAbout
Vaughan Williams turned his attention to liturgical music following his service as a wagon orderly during the Great War. Ursula Vaughan Williams, his second wife and biographer, wrote that such work ‘gave Ralph vivid awareness of how men died’. It is perhaps unsurprising that in many of the texts to which he turned after the 1918 Armistice, the fragility and weakness of humanity becomes a recurrent theme. Despite being described as a ‘confirmed atheist’ by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, his heightened exploration of Christian texts, symbols, and images after the War might rather be understood both as an attempt to grapple anew with what might lie, as he put it, ‘beyond sense and knowledge’, and to search for consolation in religious and other inherited traditions amid a world irrevocably changed.
The fifth release in their series with Signum, the Choir of St John’s have received glowing praise for their previous releases, culminating in the choral prize at the 2017 BBC Music Magazine Awards for their debut release of works by Jonathan Harvey (Deo, SIGCD456).
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