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Holst - The Cloud Messenger (chamber version) | Delphian DCD34241

Holst - The Cloud Messenger (chamber version)

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Label: Delphian

Cat No: DCD34241

Barcode: 0801918342417

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 24th April 2020

Contents

Artists

The Choir of King’s College London
The Strand Ensemble

Conductor

Joseph Fort

Works

Holst, Gustav

Part-Songs (5), op.12
The Cloud Messenger, op.30 (chamber version, arr. Joseph Fort)

Artists

The Choir of King’s College London
The Strand Ensemble

Conductor

Joseph Fort

About

In 1910, after seven years of work, Gustav Holst completed his choral-orchestral masterpiece, The Cloud Messenger. But following a disappointing premiere in 1913 the piece fell into obscurity, and has received only a handful of performances.

This crowning glory from the composer’s Sanskrit period deserves to be much better known. Telling the powerful fifth-century story of an exiled yaksha who spies a passing cloud and sends upon it a message of love to his distant wife in the Himalayas, it is rich in its harmonic language and ingenious in its motivic construction, and points the way to Holst’s next major work, The Planets.

This colourful chamber version by conductor Joseph Fort lends the more tender passages a new intimacy and clarity, while retaining much of the force of the original and laying the ground for a new life in performance. A set of five part-songs, completed the year The Cloud Messenger was begun, shows the newly married Holst similarly absorbed by love’s trials and rewards.

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