New Album Releases: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - EARTH'S WIDE BOUNDS (Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, William Vann & Joshua Ryan)

Artist:
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann
Joshua Ryan

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
77:55

Record Label:
Albion Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, Apple Music

Release Date
March 4, 2022

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Product Description: The centerpiece here is the first complete recording of the Communion Service in G minor – the 1923 English translation and revision of the Latin Mass in G minor which had been published just a year earlier. In keeping with the 1662 Anglican communion service then in use, the Gloria comes at the end; the service begins with sung responses to the ten commandments, read for us here by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Five movements require a quartet as well as a double chorus. William Vann has confidence in every member of his Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, so each of those movements has a different quartet, thus giving individual voice to 20 of the choristers. It is surprising that 'By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame', an early Walt Whitman setting, has lain neglected in manuscript for so long. This lovely setting for unaccompanied chorus started life as a Ballade for quintet in 1904 and was revised as a Nocturne, still for quintet, in 1906. The choral version must have come soon afterwards, thus representing the next stage in the experiment. 'Valiant-for-Truth' is a popular work, but few of the standard reference books on RVW have very much to say about it. Even Michael Kennedy does little more than tell us that it was written in November 1940. That date – when the war news was bleak – is the key to the selection of the text. It has nothing to do with the (then unfinished) opera 'Pilgrim’s Progress' – it’s drawn from altogether the wrong part of the novel – but Mr Valiant-for-Truth had fought three ‘rogues’, emerging scarred but victorious; he passed through the River to his reward, ‘and the trumpets all sounded for him on the other side.’

TRACK LIST:

1 . Te Deum in G Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (6:46)

2 . For All the Saints Who from Their Labours Rest Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (4:23)

3 . O Clap Your Hands Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (3:06)

4 . Monk's Gate: He Who Would Valiant Be Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (2:00)

Communion Service in G Minor

5 . Responses to Commandments Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (5:49)

6 . Kyrie Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (4:08)

7 . Creed Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (7:05)

8 . Sanctus Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (2:35)

9 . Benedictus Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (2:17)

10 . Agnus Dei Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (3:39)

11 . Gloria in Excelsis Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (4:01)

12 . Kingsfold: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (2:14)

13 . O Taste and See Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (1:24)

14 . Picardy: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence New English Hymnal Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (3:02)

15 . Prayer to the Father of Heaven Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (5:24)

16 . King's Lynn: O God of Earth and Altar Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (2:11)

17 . Antiphon: Let All the World in Every Corner Sing Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (3:07)

18 . Down Ampney: Come Down, O Love Divine Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (3:16)

19 . Valiant-for-Truth Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (5:49)

Nocturnes

20 . By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea / Joshua Ryan / William Vann / Rowan Williams (5:39)

Earths Wide Bounds Ralph Vaughan Williams Chapel Choir Of Royal Hospital Chelsea

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