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Bairstow - Choral Music | Hyperion CDA67497

Bairstow - Choral Music

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67497

Barcode: 0034571174976

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 2nd July 2007

Contents

Works

Sir Edward Bairstow
Jesu, the very thought of thee (for unaccompanied choir); Blessed city, heavenly Salem (for choir & organ); Evening Service in D (for choir & organ); Lord, thou hast been our refuge (for choir & organ); If the Lord had not helped me (for choir & organ); Let all mortal flesh keep silence (unaccompanied choir); Evening Service in G (for choir & organ); Five Poems of the Spirit for solo baritone (choir & orchestra); Save us, O Lord (for choir & organ)

Artists

The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Paul Provost (organ)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Britten Sinfonia

Conductor

David Hill

Works

Sir Edward Bairstow
Jesu, the very thought of thee (for unaccompanied choir); Blessed city, heavenly Salem (for choir & organ); Evening Service in D (for choir & organ); Lord, thou hast been our refuge (for choir & organ); If the Lord had not helped me (for choir & organ); Let all mortal flesh keep silence (unaccompanied choir); Evening Service in G (for choir & organ); Five Poems of the Spirit for solo baritone (choir & orchestra); Save us, O Lord (for choir & organ)

Artists

The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Paul Provost (organ)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Britten Sinfonia

Conductor

David Hill

About

Another great disc from the dazzling Choir of St John’s College Cambridge under their Director of Music David Hill, collaborating with great musicians including Roderick Williams, Paul Provost and the Britten Sinfonia.
The music of Edward Bairstow (1874–1946) is an essential part of the British cathedral music tradition. He set his texts ‘with a beauty which makes one never able to think of the words without recalling the music’, as the Dean of York wrote on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Certainly the more well-known works on this disc eminently fulfill this criterion.
St John’s’ inspired recordings of these classic numbers in the matchless acoustic of the chapel make this a disc to treasure on these grounds alone.
However it also includes some glorious rarities from different points in Bairstow’s career, which demonstrate his mastery of different styles and developing harmonic language. The Five Poems of the Spirit are a particular highlight: beautiful and unusual settings of metaphysical poetry

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