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In our first collaboration with overseas artists, EM Records is delighted to present the Nicolai Chamber Choir, a choral group associated with Stockholm Cathedral. ‘A Garland of English Choral Works’ ranges from early delights by Thomas Morley and Pearsall, through Herbert Howells’s intense and moving Requiem, to Balfour Gardiner’s beautiful ‘Evening Hymn’. Of particular note are the choruses from ‘Olivet to Calvary’ by John Henry Maunder – a work that too long has lain overlooked and neglected, yet is now experiencing a resurgence of interest, especially in Scandinavian countries; and two part-songs by William Lloyd Webber, of which these are the World Première recordings.
Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950) | |||
1. | ‘EVENING HYMN’ (1970) |
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Herbert Howells (1892–1983) REQUIEM (1932) |
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2. | ‘Salvator Mundi’ |
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3. | Psalm 23 |
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4. | ‘Requiem aeternam’ I |
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5. | Psalm 121 |
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6. | ‘Requiem aeternam’ II |
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7. | ‘I heard a Voice from Heaven’ |
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) |
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8. | ‘COME AWAY DEATH’ (1899) |
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E.J. Moeran (1894–1950) TWO SONGS FROM ‘SONGS OF SPRINGTIME’ (1931) |
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9. | ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ |
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10. | ‘Sigh no more, ladies’ |
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Joseph Horovitz (b.1926) |
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11. | ‘IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS’ (1973) |
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Thomas Morley (c.1557–1602) | |||
12. | ‘IT WAS A LOVER AND HIS LASS’ |
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William Lloyd Webber (1914–1982) | |||
13. | ‘MARGERY’ (World Première recording) |
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14. | ‘THE MOON’ (World Première recording) |
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Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795–1856) | |||
15. | ‘LAY A GARLAND’ (1840) |
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Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) | |||
16. | ‘SHALL WE GO DANCE?’, op.67 no.3 |
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Peter Warlock (1894–1930) | |||
17. | ‘ALL THE FLOWERS OF THE SPRING’ (1924) |
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Gustav Holst (1874–1934) | |||
18. | ‘THE EVENING WATCH’, op.43 no.1 (1924) |
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Percy Fletcher (1879–1932) | |||
19. | ‘O MAN, REMEMBER’ from ‘THE PASSION OF CHRIST’ (1922) |
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John Henry Maunder (1858–1920) TWO CHORUSES FROM ‘OLIVET TO CALVARY’ (1904) |
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20. | ‘The Saviour King goes forth to die!’ |
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21. | ‘Droop, Sacred Head’ |
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EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW