Holst - I Vow to Thee, My Country: Choral Music
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD279
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 18th November 2022
Contents
Works
All People that on Earth do DwellAve Maria, op.9b
By Weary Stages the Old World Ages (Hill Crest)
Christ Hath a Garden (Leighton)
Eternal Father
Festival Choruses (3), op.36a H134 (arr. Iain Farrington)
From Glory to Glory Advancing (Sheen)
Gird on Thy Sword
In This World, the Isle of Dreams (Brook End)
I vow to thee, my country
Man born to toil
Not Unto Us, O Lord
Nunc dimittis, H127
Our Blest Redeemer (Essex)
Psalms (2), H117
Short Festival Te Deum, H145 (arr. Iain Farrington)
Artists
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaJoshua Ryan (organ)
Richard Horne (tubular bells, bass bells)
Conductor
William VannWorks
All People that on Earth do DwellAve Maria, op.9b
By Weary Stages the Old World Ages (Hill Crest)
Christ Hath a Garden (Leighton)
Eternal Father
Festival Choruses (3), op.36a H134 (arr. Iain Farrington)
From Glory to Glory Advancing (Sheen)
Gird on Thy Sword
In This World, the Isle of Dreams (Brook End)
I vow to thee, my country
Man born to toil
Not Unto Us, O Lord
Nunc dimittis, H127
Our Blest Redeemer (Essex)
Psalms (2), H117
Short Festival Te Deum, H145 (arr. Iain Farrington)
Artists
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital ChelseaJoshua Ryan (organ)
Richard Horne (tubular bells, bass bells)
Conductor
William VannAbout
A prolific composer best known for his orchestral spectacular The Planets, Holst was an expressive and sincere composer and arranger of religious music despite his professed agnosticism.
Included are his only setting of the Anglican Service for Evening Prayer, Nunc dimittis, and his substantial Two Psalms and Four Festival Choruses, whose inspirations range from the Bible, Byzantine liturgy, 16th-century sources (not least Bach), and Welsh hymns.
The 12 other featured songs see Holst setting an impressive array of centuries-spanning texts, and include the striking eight-part setting of Ave Maria for unaccompanied female voices, the ecstatic Not Unto Us, O Lord, premiered by the Royal Hospital Chelsea and William Vann in 2020, and the disc’s anthemic title song, its melody borrowed from The Planets’ ‘Jupiter’.
I Vow to Thee, My Country is sponsored by The Holst Society, who also commissioned four new arrangements making their debut on disc by Iain Farrington, and includes extensive, authoritative notes by Andrew Neill.
William Vann and the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea’s previous SOMM releases include Carols from Chelsea (SOMMCD0161), a Guardian Best Classical Christmas Release admired for its “model singing”; In Remembrance (SOMMCD0187) marking the centenary of the 1918 Armistice was praised by Gramophone for its “beautifully nuanced performances”; and The Reeds by Severn Side (SOMMCD0278), choral music by Elgar, which BBC Music Magazine hailed as “another feather in the cap for the Vann-Royal Hospital Chelsea partnership”.
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