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Chris Williams - Songs of the Coromandel Coast, etc | Omnibus Classics CC5001

Chris Williams - Songs of the Coromandel Coast, etc

Label: Omnibus Classics

Cat No: CC5001

Barcode: 5023581500122

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 1st December 2008

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Contents

Artists

James Gilchrist (tenor)
English Brass
English Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus
Choir of Eltham College

Conductor

Graham Wili

Works

Williams, Chris

Malabar
Songs of the Coromandel Coast
Tsunami Requiem

Artists

James Gilchrist (tenor)
English Brass
English Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus
Choir of Eltham College

Conductor

Graham Wili

About

This CD is a live recording of the hugely successful concert performed at London’s Royal Festival Hall in May 2008, featuring the world premiere of a choral work about the Asian tsunami of 2004, by British composer Chris Williams. This powerful and moving new piece, Songs of the Coromandel Coast, greeted by a standing ovation, is a sequel to Williams’ Tsunami Requiem, also featured here, along with his new brass quintet Malabar.

Tsunami Requiem retells the events on Boxing Day 2004, intertwined with text from the requiem mass. Songs of the Coromandel Coast shows life three years on, using four contrasting sea shanties making this work powerful, moving and accessible. Malabar provides a refreshing interlude from these two choral masterpieces.

These are three highly original, accessible new works. James Gilchrist is on glorious form, ‘now unsurpassed among lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security’, according to the Independent.

The internationally renowned Choir of Eltham College sing with clarity and power, and the English Philharmonia and their Chorus are in stunning form under their principal conductor Graham Wili.

There is sparkling support from English Brass, who accompany the Tsunami Requiem and perform Malabar with supreme mastery.

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