A Voice from Heaven: British Choral Masterpieces

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Impossible not to add to the praise that has greeted this beautifully performed collection...The settings are mournful but consolatory. — Sunday Times, 23rd October 2016 More…

Release Date: 7th Oct 2016
Catalogue No: VIVAT113
Label: Vivat
Length: 68 minutes

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Harris, W: Bring us, O Lord God

Work length4:28

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Bring us, O Lord God

Track length4:28

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MacMillan: Bring us, O Lord

Work length5:04

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Bring us, O Lord God

Track length5:04

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Harris, W: Faire is the Heaven

Work length5:16

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Howells: Take him, earth, for cherishing

Work length8:30

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Tavener: Take Him Earth For Cherishing

Work length4:06

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King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Stanford: I heard a voice from heaven (Jag horde en rose fran Himlen)

Work length4:36

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Julie Cooper (soprano)
Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

I heard a voice from Heaven

Track length4:36

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anon.: Hymnus Paradisi (Anonymous lyricist)

Work length4:43

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Julie Cooper (soprano), Tom Robson (tenor), Andrew Rupp (baritone)
Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Hymnus Paradisi: V. I heard a voice from heaven

Track length4:43

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Leighton: Drop, Drop Slow Tears

Work length3:07

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Excerpt, Parry: Songs of Farewell

Work length9:46

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Songs of Farewell: Lord, let Me Know Mine End

Track length9:46

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Stanford: Justorum animae, Op. 38 No. 1

Work length3:08

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Berkeley, L: Justorum animae, Op. 60 No. 2

Work length3:36

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Herbert Murrill: The Souls of the Righteous

Work length2:11

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King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Hewitt Jones, Thomas: Drop, drop, slow tears

Work length3:21

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

Tavener: Song for Athene

Work length6:29

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Choir of The King's Consort
Robert King
Recorded: 25-27 April 2016
Recording Venue: St. Jude's Church, London, United Kingdom

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A beautifully themed collection of fourteen of the finest unaccompanied British choral masterpieces of the last 125 years performed by award-winning Choir of The King’s Consort.

The fascinating mix of familiar and unfamiliar includes five ‘paired’ settings: William Harris’s classic 1959 ‘Bring us, O Lord God’ partnered by James MacMillan’s 2010 setting of the same words; Herbert Howells’ devastatingly poignant ‘Take him, earth, for cherishing’ (in memory of the slain President Kennedy) juxtaposed with John Tavener’s 2008 response to the same text; ‘Justorum animae’ (‘The souls of the righteous’) in versions by Lennox Berkeley, Charles Villiers Stanford and Herbert Murrill; heartfelt settings of ‘Drop, drop, slow tears’ by Kenneth Leighton and Thomas Hewitt Jones; and Stanford’s beautifully crafted ‘I heard a voice from Heaven’ coupled with Herbert Howell’s exquisite, mystical setting of the same words.

The collection is completed with three impressive single works: Parry’s valedictory ‘Lord, let me know mine end’, William Harris’s masterwork ‘Faire is the Heaven’, and a stunningly powerful recording of John Tavener’s ‘Song for Athene’, which sprang to global fame when performed at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Recorded in the well-nigh perfect acoustic of St Jude’s Church, London, by the award-winning production team of David Hinitt and Adrian Peacock.

Extensive presentation includes 64 page booklet with authoritative liner note in three languages by conductor Robert King, together with full sung texts and session photographs.

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23rd October 2016

Impossible not to add to the praise that has greeted this beautifully performed collection...The settings are mournful but consolatory.

25th September 2016

this album of unaccompanied British choral works shows the 28-strong Choir of the King Consort, especially known for baroque performance, in a rich, lushly romantic light.

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