Rutter/Mozart/Schubert/Brahms/Elgar/Mckie/… : This Is The Day : Music on royal occasions

John Rutter (1945-)
This is the day which the Lord hath made, Hymne pour chœur

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K 339

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Psaum 23, D 706op. 132

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
German Réquiem Mass, op. 45

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me, pour chœur (prologue to The Apostles)

Sir William McKie
We wait for Thy loving kindness

Paul Mealor (1975-)
Ubi Caritas, pour chœur

Maurice Duruflé (1902 – 1986)
4 Motets on thèmes grégorians, op. 10

William H. Harris (1883-1973)
Holy Is the True Light, pour chœur

John Tavener (1944-)
Mélodie for Athene

Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-)
These Three, pour chœur

William Walton (1902-1983)
Set me as a seal upon thine heart

Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
God Be in My Head

Traditional, Irish
I Would Be True

William Walton (1902-1983)
Henry V

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
chorale 6 Danses from Gloriana, pour chœur (or ténor, chœur & clavecin), op. 53

Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)
Samson

Elin Thomas (soprano)
Andrew Lucas (orgue)
Simon Wall (ténor)
Alison Hill (soprano)
Ben Alden (ténor)
Grace Davidson (soprano)
Simon Cox (trompette)

Cambridge Singers

John Rutter


Format: 1 CD
Release date: 24/4/2012
Barcode: 0040888013624 Categories: ,

15,90

   in Choir & Organ (Sep, 2012)
With an eye on the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, this album collects some of the choral music heard on royal occasions during the lifetime of the current British monarch, including two pieces that featured in the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. The disc takes its title from John Rutter’s eponymous anthem commissioned for the service. With its characteristically tonal, up-tempo and jazz-inflected idiom it may not appeal to all, but there’s no doubting its celebratory joy, nor the facility and gusto with which Rutter’s Cambridge Singers tackle the piece. More praise should be reserved for Welsh composer Paul Mealor’s ravishing unaccompanied motet Ubi caritas, whose more angular yet …

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