Finzi Singers & Paul Spicer - Britten: The Choral Edition (2013)
Artist: Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer, Julie Cooper, Andrew Lumsden, Carys Lane, Olive Simpson, Robert Burt, Jonathan Cannock
Title: Britten: The Choral Edition
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 3:20:51
Total Size: 716 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Britten: The Choral Edition
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 3:20:51
Total Size: 716 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Disc 1
1. Julie Cooper – Hymn to St. Peter, Op. 56a (06:05)
2. Finzi Singers – A Hymn of St. Columba (02:11)
3. Julie Cooper – A Hymn to the Virgin (02:49)
4. Carys Lane – I. In a Garden Shady (02:44)
5. Carys Lane – II. I Cannot Grow (02:06)
6. Carys Lane – III. O Ear Whose Creatures Cannot Wish to Fall (05:50)
7. Carys Lane – Rejoice in God, o ye Tongues (01:29)
8. Carys Lane – Let Nimrod, the mighty hunter … (01:19)
9. Carys Lane – Hallelujah from the heart of God … (01:04)
10. Carys Lane – For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry (02:20)
11. Carys Lane – For the Mouse is a creature (00:58)
12. Carys Lane – For the flowers are great blessing (02:05)
13. Carys Lane – For I am under the same accusation (02:49)
14. Carys Lane – For H is a spirit (01:07)
15. Carys Lane – For the instruments are by their rhimes … (02:29)
16. Carys Lane – Hallelujah from the heart of God … (reprise) (01:24)
17. Finzi Singers – No. 1. Time (01:28)
18. Finzi Singers – No. 2. Concord (02:19)
19. Finzi Singers – No. 3. Time and Concord (01:28)
20. Finzi Singers – No. 4. Country Girls (00:58)
21. Finzi Singers – No. 5. Rustics and Fishermen (01:00)
22. Finzi Singers – No. 6. Final Dance of Homage (02:23)
23. Finzi Singers – No. 1. Prayer I (02:19)
24. Finzi Singers – No. 2. Rosa Mystica (04:47)
25. Finzi Singers – No. 3. God's Grandeur (03:32)
26. Finzi Singers – No. 4. Prayer II (02:38)
27. Finzi Singers – No. 5. O Deus, ego amo te (01:36)
28. Finzi Singers – No. 6. The Soldier (02:11)
29. Finzi Singers – No. 7. Heaven-Haven (01:28)
Disc 2
1. Finzi Singers – Jubilate Deo (02:46)
2. Carys Lane – Te Deum in C Major (08:42)
3. Olive Simpson – Antiphon, Op. 56b (06:08)
4. Robert Burt – Kyrie (01:58)
5. Robert Burt – Gloria (02:40)
6. Robert Burt – Sanctus (01:35)
7. Robert Burt – Benedictus (01:56)
8. Robert Burt – Agnus Dei (02:13)
9. Carys Lane – A Wedding Anthem, Op. 46 (09:50)
10. Susanna Spicer – Christ's Nativity: Sweet was the Song (03:02)
11. Olive Simpson – Procession (01:29)
12. Olive Simpson – Wolcum yole! (01:22)
13. Olive Simpson – There is no rose (02:26)
14. Olive Simpson – That yonge child (01:40)
15. Olive Simpson – Balulalow (01:15)
16. Olive Simpson – As dew in Aprille (00:55)
17. Olive Simpson – This little Babe (01:25)
18. Olive Simpson – Interlude (03:51)
19. Olive Simpson – In freezing winter night (03:30)
20. Olive Simpson – Spring Carol (01:07)
21. Olive Simpson – Deo Gracias! (01:10)
22. Olive Simpson – Recession (01:37)
23. Lindsay Wagstaff – Festival Te Deum, Op. 32 (06:38)
24. Finzi Singers – Jubilate Deo (reprise) (02:35)
Disc 3
1. Finzi Singers – No. 1. To Daffodils (02:15)
2. Finzi Singers – No. 2. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months (01:52)
3. Finzi Singers – No. 3. Marsh Flowers (02:23)
4. Finzi Singers – No. 4. The Evening Primrose (02:42)
5. Finzi Singers – No. 5. Ballad of Green Broom (02:12)
6. Finzi Singers – Advance Democracy (03:00)
7. Finzi Singers – No. 1. St. Godric's Hymn (01:38)
8. Finzi Singers – No. 2. I mon waxe wod (00:47)
9. Finzi Singers – No. 3. Lenten is come (02:16)
10. Finzi Singers – No. 4. The long night (01:24)
11. Finzi Singers – No. 5. Yif ic of luve can (03:03)
12. Finzi Singers – No. 6. Carol (01:25)
13. Finzi Singers – No. 7. Ye that pasen by (02:15)
14. Finzi Singers – No. 8. A death (03:03)
15. Jonathan Cannock – Theme: A boy was Born - (02:04)
16. Jonathan Cannock – Variation 1: Lullaby, Jesu - (04:38)
17. Jonathan Cannock – Variation 2: Herod - (02:15)
18. Jonathan Cannock – Variation 3: Jesu, As Thou Art Our Saviour - (02:56)
19. Jonathan Cannock – Variation 4: The Three Kings (04:15)
20. Jonathan Cannock – Variation 5: In the Bleak Mid-winter - (05:29)
21. Jonathan Cannock – Variation 6 (Finale): Noel! (09:39)
Britten’s substantial choral output ranges from small-scale pieces for boys’ choir to massive works such as the Spring Symphony and War Requiem. This three-disc compilation brings together a large selection of early and late unaccompanied choral works, performed by The Finzi Singers under Paul Spicer.
Here, among many others, is Rejoice in the Lamb, written in 1943 for Walter Hussey, the vicar of St Matthew’s Church in Northampton, for his congregation’s Jubilee Celebrations. Hussey was interested in forging a closer association between the arts and the Church, an aim that Britten himself shared. The composer chose as his text extracts from Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno, a rambling poem of the mid-eighteenth century, composed largely in a mad house. Although there is a delightful sense of madness present here, the religious character of the work is the most striking.
A.M.D.G., seven unaccompanied settings of poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins, was among the first works written by Britten after his arrival in the US in 1939. The work’s title is an abbreviation of Ad majorem Dei gloriam (To the greater glory of God), a saying that appears throughout the writings of Ignatius de Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order of which Hopkins was a member. The premiere performance of this work was meant to take place in November 1939, but the outbreak of war caused the concert to be cancelled. The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta Chorus, several years after the composer’s death, in August 1984.
This re-release is available on the Classic Chandos label at 3 CDs for the price of 2. The Finzi Singers and Paul Spicer have recorded a wide variety of British music for Chandos, much of which has not been heard before either in performance or on disc. They have been regarded as major exponents of British twentieth-century choral music.
Here, among many others, is Rejoice in the Lamb, written in 1943 for Walter Hussey, the vicar of St Matthew’s Church in Northampton, for his congregation’s Jubilee Celebrations. Hussey was interested in forging a closer association between the arts and the Church, an aim that Britten himself shared. The composer chose as his text extracts from Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno, a rambling poem of the mid-eighteenth century, composed largely in a mad house. Although there is a delightful sense of madness present here, the religious character of the work is the most striking.
A.M.D.G., seven unaccompanied settings of poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins, was among the first works written by Britten after his arrival in the US in 1939. The work’s title is an abbreviation of Ad majorem Dei gloriam (To the greater glory of God), a saying that appears throughout the writings of Ignatius de Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order of which Hopkins was a member. The premiere performance of this work was meant to take place in November 1939, but the outbreak of war caused the concert to be cancelled. The first performance was given by the London Sinfonietta Chorus, several years after the composer’s death, in August 1984.
This re-release is available on the Classic Chandos label at 3 CDs for the price of 2. The Finzi Singers and Paul Spicer have recorded a wide variety of British music for Chandos, much of which has not been heard before either in performance or on disc. They have been regarded as major exponents of British twentieth-century choral music.
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