Choir of Kings College London, Strand Ensemble - Holst: The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 & 5 Partsongs, Op. 12, H. 61 (2020)
Choir of Kings College London, Strand Ensemble - Holst: The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 & 5 Partsongs, Op. 12, H. 61 (2020)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 00:58:05 | 238 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Delphian
FLAC tracks +booklet | 00:58:05 | 238 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Delphian
In 1910, after seven years of work, Gustav Holst completed his choral-orchestral masterpiece, The Cloud Messenger. But following a disappointing premiere in 1913 the piece fell into obscurity and has received only a handful of performances. This crowning glory from the composer’s Sanskrit period deserves to be much better known. Telling the powerful fifth-century story of an exiled yaksha who spies a passing cloud and sends upon it a message of love to his distant wife in the Himalayas, it is rich in its harmonic language and ingenious in its motivic construction, and points the way to Holst’s next major work, The Planets. This colorful chamber version by conductor Joseph Fort lends the more tender passages a new intimacy and clarity, while retaining much of the force of the original and laying the ground for a new life in performance. A set of five-part songs, completed the year The Cloud Messenger was begun, shows the newly married Holst similarly absorbed by love’s trials and rewards.
Track List:
01. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 1, Prelude
02. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 2, O Thou, Who Com’st from Heaven’s King
03. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 3, In the City of the Great God
04. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 4, Bringer of Rain
05. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 5, Rushing Northward
06. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 6, See How All Greet Thee
07. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 7, Behold the Villages
08. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 8, As the Rain Descends
09. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 9, Tarry Not, O Cloud, Tarry Not
10. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 10, Tarry Not, O Cloud
11. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 11, And Hark!
12. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 12, Thou Hast Reached the Snowy Peaks
13. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 13, And See! The Great God Himself
14. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 14, Moderato maestoso - Vivace
15. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 15, When the Dancers Are Weary
16. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 16, Wait Near Her Flower-Covered Window
17. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 17, The Message [I, the Bringer of the Rain]
18. The Cloud Messenger, Op. 30, H. 111 (Arr. J. Fort for Choir & Chamber Ensemble) No. 18, Beloved!
19. 5 Partsongs, Op. 12, H. 61 No. 1, Dream Tryst
20. 5 Partsongs, Op. 12, H. 61 No. 2, Ye Little Birds
21. 5 Partsongs, Op. 12, H. 61 No. 3, Her Eyes the Glow-Worm Lend Thee
22. 5 Partsongs, Op. 12, H. 61 No. 4, Now Is the Month of Maying
23. 5 Partsongs, Op. 12, H. 61 No. 5, Come to Me
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