The Glory and the Dream: Choral Music by Richard Rodney Bennett
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0184
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 29th June 2018
Contents
Works
A Contemplation Upon FlowersI wonder as I wander
Lullaby Baby
Madrigal 'And can the physician'
Madrigals (2)
One Equal Music
Remember, O thou man
The Glory and the Dream
The Sorrows of Mary
This Day
Time
Artists
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber ChoirNicholas Morris (organ)
Conductor
Paul SpicerWorks
A Contemplation Upon FlowersI wonder as I wander
Lullaby Baby
Madrigal 'And can the physician'
Madrigals (2)
One Equal Music
Remember, O thou man
The Glory and the Dream
The Sorrows of Mary
This Day
Time
Artists
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber ChoirNicholas Morris (organ)
Conductor
Paul SpicerAbout
Performed by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, directed by Paul Spicer and with dexterous support from organist Nicholas Morris, The Glory and the Dream features 12 varied and vivacious choral pieces composed over more than 50 years. The disc’s striking title work sets Wordsworth’s ode Intimations of Immortality to music that conjures childhood rapture and adult fears with the utmost finesse and feeling and features a fearsomely complex and challenging organ accompaniment.
Dating from 1961, the earliest pieces here are Two Madrigals in which Bennett treats the rich ornamentations of the 17th century to a wholly modern perspective. The most recent work, One Equal Music – a sinewy, austere anthem with a serene ending – was completed in February 2012, just 10 months before the composer’s death at the age of 76.
Bennett’s fascination with the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras is also to be found in the elegiac partsong A Contemplation Upon Flowers, the vocal fanfare This Day and Time, a sombre meditation on the finality of life and lasting effulgence of Christ’s eternal being, and the simple but affective carol I wonder as I wander. Other seasonal pieces include the early, plainchant-infused The Sorrows of Mary, the gentle ‘hush song’ Lullaby Baby and late, substantial Remember, O thou man, a fervent and heartfelt prayer ending in quiet contemplation.
Previous Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir recordings on SOMM have included admired recordings of choral music by Herbert Howells, Samuel Barber and John Joubert, together with partsongs by Ireland, Delius and Stanford.
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