Guy Johnston, Stephen Cleobury, Christopher Seaman, Britten Sinfonia - Howells: Cello Concerto; An English Mass (2019)
Guy Johnston, Stephen Cleobury, Christopher Seaman, Britten Sinfonia, King's College Choir of Cambridge - Howells: Cello Concerto; An English Mass (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 399 Mb | Total time: 103:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: King’s College, Cambridge | # KGS0032 | Recorded: 2018, 2019
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 399 Mb | Total time: 103:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: King’s College, Cambridge | # KGS0032 | Recorded: 2018, 2019
This release is likely to get a good deal of publicity due to its status as the final release of Stephen Cleobury as director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. However, as president of the Herbert Howells Society, he may not be through with performing the music of this composer just yet. Cleobury deserves kudos for this rather challenging double album; he might easily have compiled a set of favorites of some kind, and enjoyed general acclaim. Instead, he has chosen to go out with a piece of work that makes a deeper connection with tradition. Even though he did not succeed Howells as an organist at Cambridge, he certainly lived and breathed his music, and is as fine an interpreter of it as anyone alive. So, this music is a little Howells survey as well as a Cleobury valedictory, and it succeeds notably on both counts. In addition to choral music, and a set of organ pieces brilliantly realized by Cleobury, there's the lyrical Cello Concerto, performed by Guy Johnston on cello, with the Britten Sinfonia under Christopher Seaman. It's a fine, somehow intimate reading. For Cleobury in his element, sample around on CD 1: the English Mass of 1956, which represented an intentional simplification of Howells' dense, ornate style, is ideally suited to Cleobury and his boys-and-men choristers, but perhaps the highlight of the whole is the limpid Magnificat, a gloriously lyrical, unique response to that text. A fine bookend to Cleobury's Cambridge career.–James Manheim
Performer:
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (CD1)
King’s Voices (CD1: 1, 9)
Guy Johnston, cello (CD2: 1-3)
Britten Sinfonia (CD1, CD2: 1-3)
Stephen Cleobury, conductor (CD1) & organ (CD2: 4-6)
Christopher Seaman, conductor (CD2: 1-3)
Track List:
Te Deum & Jubilate (Collegium Regale)
01. Te Deum
An English Mass
02. I. Kyrie
03. II. Credo
04. III. Sursum corda
05. IV. Sanctus
06. V. Benedictus
07. VI. Agnus Dei
08. VII. Gloria
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Regale)
09. Magnificat
CD2:
Cello Concerto
01. I. Fantasia: Tranquillo - Assai andante
02. II. Threnody: Lento calmato - Assai teneramente
03. III. Finale: Allegro vigoroso
04. Paean
05. Master Tallis's Testament
06. Rhapsody No. 3 for Organ
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Guy Johnston, Stephen Cleobury, Christopher Seaman, Britten Sinfonia - Howells: Cello Concerto; An English Mass (2019)
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