The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Mark Williams – Peace I Leave With You – Music for the Evening Hour (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:25 minutes | 2,32 GB | Genre: Classical
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In their first recording for CORO The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, with director Mark Williams, explore the repertoire that has provided the bedrock of the college’s musical life for the last 500 years, all of which was written for the end of the day. Much music associated with evening time is naturally calm and soothing, and would satisfy those seeking transcendental beauty in the form of unchallenging ‘sound baths’, but this collection also seeks to challenge, contrasting contemporary settings with music from the 16th century. We hope, through this range of works, to capture something of that liminal space between day and night that is characterised by Evensong, and to lead the listener into that ‘peace that passes all understanding’. The album showcases works by composers from John Sheppard to Joanna Marsh, and features much-loved pieces such as Hubert Parry’s Lord, let me know mine end and John Tavener’s The Lord’s Prayer as well as new additions to the Evensong repertory such as Grayston Ives’ In pace and Piers Connor Kennedy’s O nata lux.
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:25 minutes | 2,32 GB | Genre: Classique, Musique vocale sacrée, Chœurs sacrés
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Choir of Merton College, Oxford & Benjamin Nicholas – Ian Venables: Requiem, Herbert Howells: Anthems for Choir & Orchestra (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:28 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Conductor Benjamin Nicholas draws parallels between the familiar English choral sound of Howells and that of contemporary composer Ian Venables. Venables’ Requiem has already been warmly received by critics in a 2020 recording with just organ accompaniment. Now, Nicholas and his Merton College choir present it in an orchestrated version made specially for this recording. The Howells items here are also premiere recordings: new instrumental accompaniments to two of his Four Anthems, in arrangements by Howells scholars Howard Eckdahl and Jonathan Clinch, illuminate and intensify his rich choral writing like back-lighting on a stained-glass window, and they are complemented by the first recording of Howells’ original orchestration of The House of the Mind – a chance to hear one of his major underperformed works, introspective yet dramatic.
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