Rupert Gough: Royal Holloway Choir
Release Date: 01 November 2009
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571177991
Description
Rihards Dubra, born in Riga in 1964, spent his early years under a Soviet regime for which any public performances of sacred music constituted religious propaganda and were not permissible. During his studies with Adolfs Skulte at the Latvian State Conservatory, Dubra began to test the boundaries of political acceptance in the last remaining years of Soviet rule. He has now emerged from the largely secular tradition of choral music-making in Latvia as a distinctive voice, that of a composer devoting himself exclusively to the composition of sacred music. The purity of this endeavour is one that Dubra has admired in the work of so-called âholy minimalistsâ such as Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. Dubra prefers to describe his own music as âa style of meditationââone instilled with the essence of the Middle Ages âthrough the view of a man who lives in the twentieth centuryâ.
This recording represents a selection of pieces, from early experimentation to fully formed styleâa style that fuses minimalism and neo-romantic melodies with the inflections and philosophy of Gregorian, Medieval and Renaissance music. The Choir of Royal Holloway is directed by Rupert Gough in this their debut recording for Hyperion.
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
Rupert Gough: Royal Holloway Choir
Rupert Gough: Royal Holloway Choir
Rupert Gough: Royal Holloway Choir
Rupert Gough: Royal Holloway Choir
Rupert Gough: Royal Holloway Choir
