David Willcocks - Howells & Vaughan Williams: Choral Music (2014)

Issued following several requests Sir David Willcocks’s complete 1966 LP of Howells’ choral music, originally issued on Argo, makes its first appearance on CD. Howells contributes his own notes (reprinted from the original LP) in which he outlines the relationship between each of the settings and the building for which it was intended. It includes two of the Collegium Regale settings (morning and evening services) separated by David Willcocks performing the Psalm-Prelude No. 1 for solo organ. The CD is completed with the first integral issue of the 7” Argo LP of partsongs by Vaughan Williams – The Turtle Dove as well as six Shakespeare settings, also memorably performed by the King’s College Choir under Willcocks in 1959.

Tracks:

HERBERT HOWELLS
Collegium Regale (Te Deum and Jubilate)
Psalm-Prelude No. 1
Collegium Regale (Magnificat and Nunc dimittis)
Take him, earth, for cherishing
Two Carol-Anthems
St. Paul’s Service

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Three Shakespeare Songs
The Turtle Dove
Two Elizabethan Songs
Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Personnel:

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir David Willcocks