Hampton Court Palace Chapel Choir sings English music

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Orlando Gibbons, Traditional, Thomas Morley, Peter George Aston, William Walton, (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Ernest Walker, Charles Villiers Stanford, E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Henry Balfour Gardiner, Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, Thomas Tallis

Label: Alpha

Magazine Review Date: 5/1986

Media Format: Vinyl

Media Runtime: 0

Catalogue Number: ACA545

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Jubilate Deo	Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir
Blessed are the servants	E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir
I sing of a maiden	Traditional, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir Traditional, Composer
We've been awhile a-wandering	Traditional, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir Traditional, Composer
This joyful Eastertide	Traditional, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir Traditional, Composer
What cheer?	William Walton, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir William Walton, Composer
From the rising of the sun	Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, Composer Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir
Nolo mortem peccatoris	Thomas Morley, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir Thomas Morley, Composer
O clap your hands	Orlando Gibbons, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir Orlando Gibbons, Composer
If ye love me	Thomas Tallis, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir Thomas Tallis, Composer
(9) Sacred Pieces, Movement: Cherubim's song, C	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer
For I went with the multitude	Peter George Aston, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir Peter George Aston, Composer
(6) Songs of Farewell, Movement: No. 1, My soul, there is a country (Wds. Vaughan)	(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir
Lord, thou hast been our refuge	Ernest Walker, Composer Ernest Walker, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir
Evening Hymn, 'Te lucis ante terminum'	Henry Balfour Gardiner, Composer Gordon Reynolds, Conductor Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal Choir Henry Balfour Gardiner, Composer

Author:

A record produced by an enthusiast is always welcome; and Gordon Reynolds has devised a particularly varied programme which makes good listening throughout its 14 items. Texts are provided, together with a translation of Tchaikovsky's Cherubim Song which is sung in Russian (and also of any archaic English in a piece such as W. J. Philips's I sing of a maiden that is makeles and of any Latin lines). The notes, also by Gordon Reynolds, are succinct and to the point. I will only add, for anyone who may wonder, that the organist, John Reynolds is no relation.
This is the first recording ever made in the Chapel of Hampton Court Palace or by its choir; and though I do not know the building, I am told than one would expect the singing to have a more resonant acoustic than it has. If this is so, the reason is that the choir have been too closely 'miked'. This also exposes the singers rather unfairly, since a slight fault from any one, of them shows, for the sound is not well blended by the close recording.
All the same, the programme, based on the great festivals of the Church's year, enclosed by a joyful morning canticle by Stanford and Balfour Gardiner's Evening Hymn, is so well chosen and wide-rangingthat every lover of English Church music should find it rewarding.'