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Herbert Norman Howells (1892-1983)
Composer
Herbert Howells was an English composer, born in Lydney in Gloucestershire. He gained his musical background in the traditions of the Church of England, as both a chorister and an organist, and it is in this vein that the majority of his works were written. He studied under Herbert Brewer at Gloucester Cathedral and was deeply influenced by the writing of Vaughan Williams and the much earlier Tudor school of composition. Much of his music draws on this Renaissance heritage, reworking it in new and original ways.
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Recording of the Week,
Howells from David Hill and the Bach Choir
1st May 2020
David Hill leads the Bach Choir and BBC Concert Orchestra in a masterful new recording of Howells's monumental Missa Sabrinensis - a rarely-heard masterpiece ripe for revival.
Interview,
Guy Johnston & Jonathan Clinch on the Howells Cello Concerto
27th June 2019
David talks to cellist Guy Johnston and musicologist Jonathan Clinch about Howells's Cello Concerto - recently reconstructed by Clinch, recorded by Johnston and released on the King's College label.
Popular Works: Howells
- A Hymn for St Cecilia (18)
- A Sequence for St Michael (9)
- A Spotless Rose (101)
- All my hope on God is founded (22)
- Behold, O God our defender (9)
- Collegium Regale: Te Deum (10)
- Come Sing and Dance (7)
- Here is the Little Door (44)
- Hymnus Paradisi (8)
- Jubilate 'Collegium Regale' (5)
- King David (18)
- Lambert's Clavichord - Twelve pieces for clavichord, Op. 41 (6)
- Like as the Hart (35)
- Long, Long Ago (17)
- Magnificat (Collegium Regale, 1945) (6)
- Magnificat (St Paul's Service) (6)
- Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Regale, 1945) (9)
- Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense, 1957) (6)
- Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Gloucester, 1946) (11)
- Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (St Paul's, 1951) (11)
- Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in G (5)
- Master Tallis's Testament (from Six Pieces) (19)
- Nunc dimittis (9)
- O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem (10)
- Paean (7)
- Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 21 (5)
- Psalm 121 (6)
- Psalm-Preludes Set 1, Op. 32 Nos. 1-3 (15)
- Psalm-Preludes Set 1, Op. 32: No. 3 (7)
- Psalm-Preludes Set 2: No. 1 (5)
- Regina caeli (7)
- Requiem (19)
- Rhapsody for Organ No. 1 in D flat major, Op. 17 No. 1 (13)
- Rhapsody for Organ No. 3 in C sharp minor, Op. 17 No. 3 (21)
- Salve Regina (20)
- Sing Lullaby (33)
- Sonata for Oboe and Piano (7)
- Take him, earth, for cherishing (32)
- Te Deum (6)
- Te Deum & Jubilate 'Collegium Regale' (15)
