London Voices, William Saunders & Ben Parry – Jonathan Rutherford: The Wilderness and the Solitary Place (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

London Voices, William Saunders & Ben Parry – Jonathan Rutherford: The Wilderness and the Solitary Place (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:18 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Wilderness and the Solitary Place is an album of world-premiere recordings in which Ben Parry conducts London Voices and organist William Saunders in choral music by British composer Jonathan Rutherford. Following the release of I Slept and Dreamed that Life Was Beauty, these exceptional musicians reunite to perform Rutherford’s sensitive settings of sacred and secular texts. Three Advent carols inspired by Isaiah include one translated into verse by Jennifer Thorn and another derived from the medieval Coventry Mystery Play. From Rutherford’s opera, The Star-Child, based on two Oscar Wilde stories, we hear his Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis and Pilgrim’s Song – in turn based on Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Rejoice! Rejoice! is a Christmas anthem inspired by Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester, and In the Bleak Midwinter is a new setting of Christina Rossetti’s timeless poetry. The recording culminates in Rutherford’s meditative and profoundly beautiful Good Friday Music (Seven Last Words).

Tracklist:
1. London Voices – 3 Advent Carols “Isaiah”: No. 1, Rejoice, You Barren Land (03:20)
2. London Voices – 3 Advent Carols “Isaiah”: No. 2, The Sofferent Thatte Seeth Evere Seycrette (05:50)
3. London Voices – 3 Advent Carols “Isaiah”: No. 3, The Wilderness and the Solitary Place (06:09)
4. London Voices – The Star-Child: Magnificat – Nunc dimittis (05:19)
5. London Voices – The Star-Child: Pilgrim’s Song (02:31)
6. London Voices – Rejoice! Rejoice! (01:31)
7. London Voices – In the Bleak Midwinter (04:32)
8. London Voices – Blessed Is the Man Who Finds Wisdom (05:11)
9. London Voices – For Behold, I Create New Heavens and a New Earth (08:52)
10. London Voices – Good Friday Music: I. The First Word (02:03)
11. London Voices – Good Friday Music: II. The Second Word (02:14)
12. London Voices – Good Friday Music: III. The Third Word (01:45)
13. London Voices – Good Friday Music: IV. The Fourth Word (02:21)
14. London Voices – Good Friday Music: V. The Fifth Word (02:46)
15. London Voices – Good Friday Music: VI. The Sixth Word (01:06)
16. London Voices – Good Friday Music: VII. The Seventh Word (02:40)

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