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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Holst: Songs, Terzetto, Canons & Medieval Lyrics
Holst: | 4 Songs, for voice and violin, Op. 35 Sir Peter Pears (tenor) & Norbert Brainin (violin) This have I done for my true love, H128, Op. 34 No. 1 The Purcell Singers, Imogen Holst Jesu, thou the Virgin-born The Purcell Singers, Imogen Holst Carols (2), H91 Edward Selwyn (oboe) & Cecil Aronowitz (viola) The Purcell Singers, Imogen Holst Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola Richard Adeney (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe) & Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Six Canons Viola Tunnard (piano) The Purcell Singers, Imogen Holst Six Choruses for male voices, H186 The Purcell Singers & English Chamber Orchestra, Imogen Holst |
First release on CD (except The Evening-Watch). An inspired arrangement between Decca and Imogen Holst, led to a series of pioneering recordings of her father Gustav Holst’s music, which appeared on Argo and are now comprehensively released on CD as part of the Eloquence series. In a beautifully-programmed sequence of choral music, with the little chamber music gem, the Terzetto, Imogen Holst directs performances that are sincere and refreshing. Sir Peter Pears makes an appearance too, singing the unusually but evocatively-scored Four Songs for voice and violin; his violinist is Norbert Brainin, leader of the Amadeus Quartet, no less. Imogen Holst’s original notes for the LPs – ‘acutely perceptive, objective and candid’ noted Gramophone’s reviewer Lionel Salter – are here reprinted as are the full texts. Much of the music was practically unknown at the time of this recording (beautifully captured by legendary Decca engineer Kenneth Wilkinson in London’s Kingsway Hall) and well overdue for publication. Recording producers: David Harvey (Four Songs for Voice and Violin, This have I done for my true love, Jesu, Thou the Virgin-born, Two Carols, Six Canons, The Evening-Watch, Six Choruses); Erik Smith (Terzetto) Recording engineers: Kenneth Wilkinson (Six Medieval Lyrics, Four Songs for Voice and Violin, This have I done for my true love, Jesu, Thou the Virgin-born, Two Carols, Six Canons, The Evening-Watch); Michael Mailes (Terzetto) Recording location: Kingsway Hall, London, UK, December 1965 (This have I done for my true love, Jesu, Thou the Virgin-born, Four Songs for Voice and Violin, Two Carols, Six Canons, Six Choruses, The Evening-Watch), January 1966 (Terzetto) “entrancing” Gramophone Magazine (Two Carols) “Peter Pears sings [the Four Songs for Voice and Violin] with predictable intelligence and beauty” Gramophone Magazine “Throughout the record the Purcell Singers are in splendid form. Miss Holst is a most sensitive conductor, and the choir seems able to reflect every nuance of her intention.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Christmas at St John’sA sequence of music leading from the darkness of Advent to the blazing light of Christmas, Epiphany and beyond
“The John’s choir, fielding what sounds like a vintage crop of trebles, sings throughout with its trademark mixture of refinement and gutsy energy” The Telegraph | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Carols from OxfordVictorian and English
Barnby: | The Virgin Stills the Crying (A Cradle-Song of the Blessed Virgin) | Britten: | A New Year Carol | Byrd: | Lullaby, my sweet little baby This Day Christ was Born | Dykes: | Sleep, Holy Babe | Goss, J: | See amid the winter's snow | Hadley, P: | I sing of a maiden | Holst: | Lullay my liking, H129, Op. 34 No. 2 Of one that is so fair and bright, H130, Op. 34 No. 3 This have I done for my true love, H128, Op. 34 No. 1 | Hopkins, J H: | We three Kings of Orient are | Smart: | Why, Most Highest? (Jesus In The Manger) | Sullivan, A: | All This Night Bright Angels Sing (Carol for Christmas Day) | trad.: | Come All You Worthy Gentlemen Nova, nova, ave fit ex eva Gooday, Sir Christèmas Ave Maria, Hail Blessed Flower Nowell, out of your sleep arise Coventry Carol Remember, O thou man As Jacob With Travel Was Weary One Day (Jacob's Ladder) The First Nowell The Moon Shines Bright I saw three ships What Child is this? (Greensleeves) Good Christian men rejoice Good King Wenceslas A Babe is Born, All of a Maid Wassail Song (Here We Come A-Wassailing) |
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| |  | The Brightness of this dayChoral works by Gerald Finzi and Gustav Holst
Finzi: | God is gone up, Op. 27 No. 2 My lovely one, Op. 27 No. 1 Let us now praise famous men, Op. 35 Welcome Sweet and Sacred Feast, Op. 27 No. 3 Magnificat, Op. 36 The brightness of this day All this night Op. 33 Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, Op. 26 | Holst: | Sing me the men The Evening-watch, H159 This have I done for my true love, H128, Op. 34 No. 1 Nunc dimittis, H127 |
Simon Bell (organ) Winchester Cathedral Girls’ Choir and Lay Clerks, Andrew Lumsden (director) A substantial programme of sacred choral music by Gerald Finzi and Gustav Holst, sung by the Winchester Cathedral Girls’ Choir and the Lay Clerks in the third recording on Regent from Winchester Cathedral. Included here are most of the sacred choral works by both composers suitable for liturgical use, and features not only well-known works such as God is gone up and Lo, the full, final sacrifice by Finzi, and the exquisite unaccompanied eight-part Nunc dimittis by Holst, but also a number of rarely-heard or recorded works by both composers. Recorded in the glorious acoustics of Winchester Cathedral by one of the world’s finest cathedral girls’ choirs. “The girls are given solo duties in several of the these works. They rise to the occasion and are not inferior in musicality to the adult Lay Clerks. This CD should be welcomed by anyone who wants to go more deeply into Holst's and Finzi's oeuvre.” International Record Review, May 2013 | 
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| |  | To MusicAn anthology of 20th century English choral music
The Chamber Choir of Birmingham Conservatoire, directed by Paul Spicer | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | This have I done for my true lovePartsongs by Gustav Holst
Holst: | Ave Maria, H49, Op. 9b Of one that is so fair and bright, H130, Op. 34 No. 3 Carols (2), H91 Jesu, thou the Virgin-born Lullay my liking, H129, Op. 34 No. 2 Bring us in good ale Diverus and Lazarus This have I done for my true love, H128, Op. 34 No. 1 Songs (5) from The Princess, Op. 20a, H80 Home they brought her warrior dead O spiritual pilgrim, H188 Mae ‘nghariad i'n Fenws Eastern Pictures (2), H112 Light leaves whisper, H20 In youth is pleasure, H76 Choral Folksongs (6), Op. 36b, H136 |
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| |  | A Voice from HeavenA cappella choral music by British composers
York Chapter House Choir, Jane Strumheit | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Holst & Vaughan Williams - Choral Music
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| |  | Holst: | The Cloud Messenger, H111 The Hymn of Jesus, H140 Ave Maria, H49, Op. 9b The Evening-watch, H159 Seven Part-songs, H162 A Choral Fantasia, H177 A Dirge for Two Veterans, H121 Ode to Death, H144 This have I done for my true love, H128, Op. 34 No. 1 Four Part-songs |
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Susanna Spicer (alto), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Patricia Rozario (soprano) London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Finzi Singers, Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Finzi Singers, Richard Hickox, Paul Spicer “The Cloud Messenger is a 43-minute work of considerableimaginative power. Before its previoussingle-issue release it had been virtually forgottensince its disastrous premiere under Holst'sbaton in 1913. It shows the composer alreadyworking on an epic scale-–-something that castslight on the subsequent eruption of The Planets.It's marvellous to have the work on disc, though,as you might expect, it's uneven. Those whoadmire the ascetic rigour of his later music mayshare Imogen Holst's reservations, and find thescore disappointingly 'backward'. There arecertainly echoes of Vaughan Williams's A SeaSymphony and several older models. On theother hand, the glittering approach to the sacredcity on Mount Kailasa and the stylised orientalismof the climactic dance are new to Britishmusic; another world, that of 'Venus', is foreshadowedin the closing pages.One of the few incontrovertible masterpiecesin Holst's output, the familiar Hymn of Jesus hasseldom received a better performance on disc.The choral singing itself is splendidly crisp, butthe lively acoustic can blunt the impact ofHolst's acerbic harmonies.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $21.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Make We Joy - Christmas Music by Holst and Walton
“'Musts' for Yuletide music in the air …” San Francisco Chronicle | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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