Andrew Nethsingha, The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge - Magnificat 2 (2021)
Andrew Nethsingha, The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge - Magnificat 2: Howells, Swayne, Watson, Walton, Berkeley, Sumsion, Jackson, Pärt, Anderson (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 74:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD667 | Recorded: 2019
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 74:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Signum Classics | # SIGCD667 | Recorded: 2019
The second release in our Magnificat series features nine settings of the Evening Canticles, sung daily at Evensong. The recording features Howells Collegium Regale and Julian Anderson's St John's Service, as well as settings by Berkeley, Jackson, Pärt, Sumsion, Swayne, Walton & Watson.
The nine settings of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis featured on Magnificat 2 fall into two groups - four by celebrated Organist-Composers, written between 1932 and 1952, and four by non-church musicians from 1974-1989. The recording culminates with a contemporary setting by Julian Anderson, composed for the 150th anniversary of St John’s Chapel, a neat follow-on from the previous album’s final track of canticles by Michael Tippett, commissioned for the College’s 450th anniversary.
The aim of the recording is to compare the varied ways in which composers have created musical form out of these timeless texts, and Andrew Nethsingha has selected these choices due to a variety of links between them. These include notable clergymen-commissioners of the mid-twentieth century; Christ Church, Oxford as the place Walton was chorister, Watson was Organist and for which Swayne composed Magnificat I; and French influences for both the works by Berkeley and Anderson.
This album follows the first volume of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis settings, titled simply Magnificat, released in 2019. This first volume was given five stars by Choir & Organ, and The Observer called it ‘inventive and brilliant’. The two volumes are designed to compliment one another, with the first in the series starting earlier (Stanford, 1880s) and the second bringing the listener up to the present day. Volume One was ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Gramophone.
Performer:
The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
Glen Dempsey, organ
James Anderson-Besant, organ (12-13)
Andrew Nethsingha, director
Track List:
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
01-02 Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
Giles Swayne (b. 1946)
03. Magnificat I
Sydney Watson (1903-1991)
04-05. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in E
William Walton (1902-1983)
06-07. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
08-09. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)
10-11. Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G
Francis Jackson (b. 1917)
12-13. Evening Service in G
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
14. Magnificat
Julian Anderson (b. 1967)
15-16 Evening Canticles
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