Stephen Layton: Trinity College Choir Cambridge
Release Date: 01 April 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571179148
Description
Herbert Howells was acutely sensitive to the transience of life, having witnessed the loss of friends and contemporaries in the First World War and encountered deep personal tragedy when his son Michael died of polio at the age of just nine. And so a mood of elegiac yearning inhabits much of his choral music: the austere, lovely a cappella Requiem, and the elegant Take him, earth, for cherishing, commissioned to commemorate the death of President John F Kennedy, here lovingly performed by the young voices of Trinity College Choir, Cambridge, in Hyperion’s Record of the Month for April 2012.
And yet Howells could write magnificently thrilling music too, as demonstrated by the fresh brilliance of A Hymn for St Cecilia, the spine-tingling grandeur of the St Paul’s Service, or the life-affirming hymn ‘All my hope on God is founded’, here further sweetened with a descant by John Rutter.
Tracklisting
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
Simon Callaghan, Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Cinquecento
Andrey Gugnin
El Leon de Oro / Peter Phillips
Piers Lane
Stephen Layton: Trinity College Choir Cambridge
Stephen Layton: Trinity College Choir Cambridge
Stephen Layton: Trinity College Choir Cambridge
Stephen Layton: Trinity College Choir Cambridge
Stephen Layton: Trinity College Choir Cambridge
Stephen Layton: Trinity College Choir Cambridge
Stephen Layton: Trinity College Choir Cambridge
Stephen Layton: Trinity College Choir Cambridge
