Elgar - The Reeds by Severn Side: Choral Music
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD278
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 15th April 2022
Contents
Works
AngelusCredo on Themes from Beethoven Symphonies 5, 7 and 9
Fear not, O Land
Give unto the Lord, op.74
Gloria
Good Morrow
Hear thy children, gentle Jesus (Drakes Broughton)
I Sing the Birth
Motets (3), op.2
O Salutaris hostia
O hearken Thou, op.64
Part-Songs (4), op.53
Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode
Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, op.30
Artists
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaJoshua Ryan (organ)
Conductor
William VannWorks
AngelusCredo on Themes from Beethoven Symphonies 5, 7 and 9
Fear not, O Land
Give unto the Lord, op.74
Gloria
Good Morrow
Hear thy children, gentle Jesus (Drakes Broughton)
I Sing the Birth
Motets (3), op.2
O Salutaris hostia
O hearken Thou, op.64
Part-Songs (4), op.53
Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode
Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, op.30
Artists
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaJoshua Ryan (organ)
Conductor
William VannAbout
Of the 18 featured works, six are first recordings. They traverse Elgar’s remarkable ascension from lowly lawyer’s clerk to self-taught composer to Master of the King’s Musick. And chart the impeccable fusing of his Roman Catholic heritage with the Anglican church tradition to which he contributed several masterpieces.
They also reveal what Vaughan Williams described as the “mystery and [the] miracle” of Elgar’s flowering into the music laureate of Edwardian England, as Andrew Neill, former Chairman of the Elgar Society, observes in his authoritative booklet notes.
Alongside juvenilia such as the 16-year-old Elgar’s Credo on Themes from Symphonies 5, 7 and 9 by Beethoven (in James Olsen’s completion) and Drake’s Broughton, to which the 73-year-old composer would return in his Nursery Suite, are diverse works that reveal growing confidence, including early settings of the Mass and first recordings (in English) of the Op.2 trilogy: Jesu, word of God Incarnate; Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory; Jesu, Meek and Lowly.
The masterpiece bitonal setting of Tennyson, There is Sweet Music, one of Elgar’s self-described “choral songs”, is a highlight, alongside twin peaks of his anthem writing: O Hearken Thou (heard as the Latin motet, Intende voci orationis meae) and the substantial Give Unto the Lord.
William Vann and the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea’s previous SOMM releases include In Remembrance (SOMMCD0187), described by Gramophone as “almost unbearably moving”, and as “an album that will have enduring value into the future” by MusicWeb International. Carols from Chelsea (SOMMCD0161) was a Best Classical Christmas Release, praised for its “model singing”, in The Guardian.
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