HOWELLS Requiem
Requiem, canticles and the JFK memorial anthem from both sides of the Atlantic
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Composer or Director: Herbert Howells
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Hyperion
Magazine Review Date: 06/2012
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 64
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CDA67914
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(A) Hymn for St Cecilia |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Herbert Howells, Composer Simon Bland, Organ Stephen Layton, Conductor Trinity College Choir, Cambridge |
Salve Regina |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Herbert Howells, Composer Stephen Layton, Conductor Trinity College Choir, Cambridge |
Gloucester Service |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Herbert Howells, Composer Jeremy Cole, Organ Stephen Layton, Conductor Trinity College Choir, Cambridge |
Take him, earth, for cherishing |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Herbert Howells, Composer Stephen Layton, Conductor Trinity College Choir, Cambridge |
St. Pauls |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Herbert Howells, Composer Simon Bland, Organ Stephen Layton, Conductor Trinity College Choir, Cambridge |
Requiem |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Herbert Howells, Composer Stephen Layton, Conductor Trinity College Choir, Cambridge |
All my hope on God is founded |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Herbert Howells, Composer Jeremy Cole, Organ Stephen Layton, Conductor Trinity College Choir, Cambridge |
Composer or Director: Herbert Howells
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Gloriae Dei Cantores
Magazine Review Date: 06/2012
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 68
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: GDCD053
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Behold, O God Our Defender |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Elizabeth C. Patterson, Conductor Gloriae Dei Cantores Herbert Howells, Composer |
(A) Sequence for St Michael |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Elizabeth C. Patterson, Conductor Gloriae Dei Cantores Herbert Howells, Composer |
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Elizabeth C. Patterson, Conductor Gloriae Dei Cantores Herbert Howells, Composer |
Take him, earth, for cherishing |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Elizabeth C. Patterson, Conductor Gloriae Dei Cantores Herbert Howells, Composer |
Requiem |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Elizabeth C. Patterson, Conductor Gloriae Dei Cantores Herbert Howells, Composer |
Te Deum, 'Washington Cathedral' |
Herbert Howells, Composer
Elizabeth C. Patterson, Conductor Gloriae Dei Cantores Herbert Howells, Composer |
Author: Peter Quantrill
Hyperion’s disc, then, is all the more impressive for dispelling the clouds of dissonance that have given Howells the bad name of a meandering mystic and letting us hear what a fine ear he had, not just for the juicy suspension or overpowering cadence but for deft two-part harmony, as one finds throughout the understated Gloucester Canticles. The choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, is ideally pure and full in tone. The grand hymns and canticles are extrovert and focused, the intimate supplications such as Take him, earth sung with great poise. Comparisons can flatter to deceive but, by the side of the Trinity choir’s Requiem, the Choir of St John’s sounds too quick, the Vasari Singers too distant, the Cambridge Singers a little plain; even my previous favourite, the Corydon Singers, don’t alight on chords with quite the full and alert appreciation of what makes Howells Howells, that impassioned, modally inflected application to the personal and the numinous which reminds me more of Bruckner than Stanford. How good it is to hear the St Paul’s Service not swallowed up by the dome of that cathedral but still buttressed by a mighty Willis beast, belonging in this case to Lincoln. In a recital of many highlights, I have returned again and again to the St Paul’s Nunc dimittis: spaciously paced and surely directed towards a ritardando of almighty breadth more associated with the ambivalent Catholic Mahler than the equally ambivalent Protestant Howells. This is a perfect disc of its kind.
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