Leighton - Every Living Creature: Choral Music
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0667
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 19th May 2023
Contents
Works
A Hymn to the TrinityAn Evening Hymn
Carols (3)
Laudes Animantium, op.61
London Town
Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace
Nativitie
Artists
Rebecca Lea (soprano)Nina Bennet (soprano)
Ciara Hendrick (mezzo-soprano)
Nick Pritchard (tenor)
Finchley Children’s Music Group
Londinium
Conductor
Andrew GriffithsWorks
A Hymn to the TrinityAn Evening Hymn
Carols (3)
Laudes Animantium, op.61
London Town
Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace
Nativitie
Artists
Rebecca Lea (soprano)Nina Bennet (soprano)
Ciara Hendrick (mezzo-soprano)
Nick Pritchard (tenor)
Finchley Children’s Music Group
Londinium
Conductor
Andrew GriffithsAbout
The album unearths a number of significant works by this important British composer, including the extraordinary, eight-movement Laudes Animantium, a 25-minute work for double choir, soloists and children’s chorus, as well as a superb setting of John Donne’s Nativitie and the charming Three Carols (1948).
Also featured are the partsong London Town and three more sacred works: Lord, When the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace, An Evening Hymn and A Hymn to the Trinity. Five of the pieces are heard on disc for the first time; the remaining four have been recorded only once before.
Londinium is joined by soloists Rebecca Lea and Nina Bennet (sopranos), Ciara Hendrick (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor) and, in the finale of Laudes Animantium, the choir of Finchley Children’s Music Group.
In his insightful booklet notes, Griffiths writes: “It is rare to find a choral singer who does not enjoy performing Leighton’s works. His music is rooted in rigorous part-writing and counterpoint, and alive with invigorating rhythm, motivic interplay and piquant dissonance, underlaid with a deeply lyrical instinct and an exquisite sensitivity to the meaning and colour of text”.
Londinium and Andrew Griffiths’s debut SOMM release was The Gluepot Connection, a compendium portrait of British musical life in the middle of the last century (SOMMCD180), a MusicWeb International Recording of the Year, hailed as “a brilliant concept” and “flawlessly performed”. It received a five-star review from Choir & Organ, and four stars from BBC Music Magazine and The Daily Telegraph, with Gramophone hailing its “impressive accomplishment” and declaring it “well worth seeking out”.
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