Leighton - Orchestral Works Vol.2
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10495
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 27th October 2008
Contents
Artists
Sarah Fox (soprano)BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales
Conductor
Richard HickoxWorks
Symphony no.2, op.69 'Sinfonia mistica in Memoriam F.L.'Te Deum Laudamus
Artists
Sarah Fox (soprano)BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales
Conductor
Richard HickoxAbout
Volume 2 presents two large-scale orchestral works: Symphony No.2 ‘Sinfonia Mistica’, which receives its first recording, coupled with Te Deum Laudamus in its orchestrated version.
One of the most successful British composers of the latter half of the twentieth century, Kenneth Leighton’s lifelong musical relationship with the human voice, exemplified in the two works of this recording, began as a chorister in the choir of Wakefield Cathedral as a young boy. It was to impact greatly on his writing. Over the course of his life he wrote almost continually for the voice, absorbing vocal lines in all settings. It provided an excellent vehicle for some of his most lyrical and expressive writing.
Leighton wrote three numbered symphonies. Symphony No.2 was composed in 1974 as a direct response to the death of his mother, and Leighton referred to the work as a ‘meditation on the subject of death.’ Composed over six movements and approaching an hour in length, Sinfonia Mistica contains some of Leighton’s most personal and reactionary music, being at various times angry and emotional, yet serene and thoughtful. While he describes the symphony as a ‘requiem’, the conventional texts for this service are not employed, instead he used texts by John Donne, George Herbert and Henry King, poets who have been a constant source of inspiration to British composers.
The original setting of Te Deum was written for choir and organ, but two years after its completion, Leighton received a request from the Oxford Bach Choir for an orchestral version of the work, which was completed in 1966. Scored for chorus and full orchestra it is an imaginative setting of what is a liturgical text of praise, and written in honour of St Cecilia. This climatic work contains some of Leighton’s most enduring and significant music.
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