James Cook - From Wonderland to Heaven (Music for voices, organ & harp) | Divine Art DDV24123

James Cook - From Wonderland to Heaven (Music for voices, organ & harp)

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Label: Divine Art

Cat No: DDV24123

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th January 2008

Contents

Works

Cook
From a Carrollean Symphony

Cook
Dyad

Cook
Quaternion

Cook
From Seven Motets of Sacred Love

Cook
From Iambic Anthems (no. 3)

Cook
From Body of Divinity

Cook
From Psalmodia Sacra (set 3)

Cook
From Dipsalma

Artists

Rufus Frowde (organ)
Elizabeth Scorah (harp)
Kathryn Copeland (soprano)
Voces Oxonienses

Conductor

Rufus Frowde

Works

Cook
From a Carrollean Symphony

Cook
Dyad

Cook
Quaternion

Cook
From Seven Motets of Sacred Love

Cook
From Iambic Anthems (no. 3)

Cook
From Body of Divinity

Cook
From Psalmodia Sacra (set 3)

Cook
From Dipsalma

Artists

Rufus Frowde (organ)
Elizabeth Scorah (harp)
Kathryn Copeland (soprano)
Voces Oxonienses

Conductor

Rufus Frowde

About

The compositions on this disc bring together fantasy and theology in music for voices, organ and harp, recorded in three separate sacred places over the space of eight years (1998-2006). However the diversity of the material, (vocal and instrumental, sacred and secular) is brought together by the unity of presenting one composer and one organist/choir director in all the performances throughout.

James Cook studied composition at Oxford University at post-graduate level and has worked briefly at Eton College. Although mainly a composer of sacred choral music, he has recently begun to write more instrumental music, mostly for organ and in June 2006 he completed his ninth organ symphony.

Rufus Frowde has collaborated with James Cook for many years, directing ‘Voces Oxonienses’ as well as playing for various CDs on the Divine Art label. Rufus has participated in conducting workshops with the BBC Singers and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and holds various conducting appointments.

Elizabeth Scorah has been playing the harp since the age of six. At the age of ten she was awarded the Venus Harp Prize to attend tuition in Illinois, USA and a scholarship by the Clarsach Society to attend coaching in Edinburgh. A year later she was awarded a scholarship to The Purcell school of music for seven years.

American soprano Kathryn Copeland recently completed her Postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Kathryn earned her undergraduate degree at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey where, as a member of the renowned Westminster Choir under the direction of Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, she performed in operas at the Spoleto Festival, USA and in major choral/orchestral works with the New York and Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestras and conductors Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit and Michael Tilson Thomas. Kathryn, who performs regularly with the BBC Singers and the Sweelinck Ensemble, is also a member of the Brompton Oratory Choir.

Total Playing Time 77:13

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