Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (Composer)
Born: 27th February 1848, Bournemouth, England
Died: 7th October 1918, Rustington, England
Nationality: English
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.
Parry was born in 1848 in Richmond Hill in Bournemouth.
Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", his 1902 setting for the coronation anthem "I was glad", the choral and orchestral ode Blest Pair of Sirens, and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind". His orchestral works include five symphonies and a set of Symphonic Variations.
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Recording of the Week,
Charles Hubert Parry's Judith from William Vann and the London Mozart Players
Parry’s 1888 oratorio on the Apocryphal tale of an avenging Jewish widow emerges as a worthy successor to Mendelssohn’s Elijah in this gripping world premiere recording with Sarah Fox, Kathryn Rudge and Toby Spence.
Recording of the Week,
I was glad: Sacred Music by Stanford & Parry
Robert King and his Consort present lavish orchestrations (on period instruments) of Parry’s Te Deum, I was glad, Blest Pair of Sirens and Jerusalem, and four of Stanford’s canticle settings, with Carolyn Sampson and David Wilson-Johnson as soloists.
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Popular Works: Parry
- A Welsh lullaby (5)
- An English Suite (11)
- And yet I love her till I die (6)
- Armida's Garden (5)
- Blest Pair of Sirens (21)
- Bright Star (5)
- Chorale on an Old English Tune (6)
- Chorale Prelude on Croft's 136th (5)
- Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Repton) (48)
- Dirge in woods (4)
- Elegy (5)
- Elegy for Brahms (6)
- English Lyrics, Set 4 (6)
- English Lyrics, Set 5 (5)
- Fantasia and Fugue in G major, Op. 188 (9)
- Good Night (4)
- Hear my words, ye people (16)
- I was glad (92)
- If thou would'st ease thine heart (4)
- Jerusalem (114)
- Lady Radnor's Suite (11)
- Long since in Egypt's plentous (4)
- Lord, let me know mine end (No. 6 from Songs of Farewell) (6)
- Love is a bable (12)
- My Heart is like a Singing Bird (5)
- My soul, there is a country (No. 1 from Songs of Farewell) (26)
- Never weather-beaten sail (No. 3 from Songs of Farewell) (6)
- O Mistress Mine (9)
- O never say that I was false of heart (4)
- O praise ye the Lord (19)
- On a time the amorous Silvy (5)
- Proud Maisie (5)
- Psalm 84: O how amiable are thy dwellings (6)
- Songs of Farewell (12)
- Symphonic Variations (1897) (8)
- There is an old belief (No. 4 from Songs of Farewell) (10)
- Toccata and Fugue 'The Wanderer' (7)
- Under the greenwood tree (4)
- Welcome, Yule! (7)
- When comes my Gwen (5)
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