English Choral Favourites

EMI: 3614992

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English Choral Favourites

Label:

EMI

Catalogue No:

3614992

Discs:

1

Release date:

8th May 2006

Barcode:

0094636149929

Medium:

CD
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English Choral Favourites


Elgar:

The Shower

My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land Op. 18 No. 3

Great is the Lord (Psalm XLVIII), Op. 67

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, Op. 39 No. 1

arr Lemare

Gardiner, H B:

Evening Hymn (Te lucis ante terminum)

Holst:

Come to me

Howells:

Pieces (6): Master Tallis's Testament

Mendelssohn:

Hear my prayer

Parry:

Jerusalem

I was glad

Stanford:

The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3

Vaughan Williams:

O Clap Your Hands (Psalm 47)


Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), Matthew Best (bass) & Thomas Trotter (organ)

City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Simon Halsey (director)

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BBC Music Magazine

August 2006

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“…this latest album from the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus mostly consists of the secular side of the post-Victorian English choral tradition, interspersed with several organ solos which are rousingly played by Thomas Trotter. …the singing is still distinguished by a high degree of accuracy in tuning, attack and unanimity of dynamic. These qualities are shown to their best advantage in the quasi-symphonic drama of Elgar's Great is the Lord, undoubtedly the highlight of the programme...”

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