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GUARDIAN OF HEAVEN
Graham Keitch
   
  Cantate
Zoltán Pad (cond.)
   
  EAN 5 060263 500582

‘Guardian of Heaven’ is a selection of previously unrecorded choral works by the English composer Graham Keitch. The recordings include settings of the Mass and Evening Canticles as well as various motets and anthems based on English and Latin texts. Most have been sung recently in the hallowed acoustic spaces afforded by cathedrals and churches in the United Kingdom and further afield. Keitch’s music mirrors the vibrancy and intensity of the words with a modernity that can belong nowhere else other than in the Christian liturgy. In this way, he calls the listener to a still space that seems ever more dispersed in our everyday, busy lives.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
Graham Keitch (b.1955)
1. ‘NUNC LAUDARE DEBEMUS’ (2018)  
2. ‘O GLORIOUS PRINCE ST MICHAEL’ (2018)  
3. ‘ETERNAL REST’ (2018)  
       
EVENING CANTICLES, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER SERVICE (2017)
4. ‘Magnificat’  
5. ‘Nunc dimittis’  
       
6. ‘JUSTORUM ANIMAE’ (2014)  
7. ‘FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD’ (2016)  
8. ‘O TU SUAVISSIMA VIRGA’ (2017)  
9. ‘DEUS, CUI PROPRIUM EST’ (2017)  
10. ‘O SALUTARIS HOSTIA’ (2016)  
       
MISSA CANTORIBUS VIATORIBUS, CANTERBURY MASS (2017)
11. ‘Kyrie eleison’  
12. ‘Gloria’  
13. ‘Sanctus’ and ‘Benedictus’  
14. ‘Agnus Dei’  
       
15. ‘AVE MARIA’ (2012)  
16. ‘VISIT THIS PLACE, O LORD’ (2017)  
       
LATIN CANTICLES, CANTERBURY SERVICE (2018)
17. ‘Magnificat’  
18. ‘Nunc dimittis’  
       
19. ‘O LUX BEATISSIMA’ (2017)  
20. ‘THE CHURCH IS BUILT UPON THE EARTHLY STONE’ (2017)  

 

REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
EMR CD023 | THE STRAD