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Benjamin Britten - Sacred Choral Music

Name: Benjamin Britten - Sacred Choral Music
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Iain Farrington (organ), Benedict Giles (treble), Malcolm Green (bass), Simon Wall (tenor), Thomas Williams (alto), Joseph Helps (treble), Oliver Lepage-Dean (treble), Christopher de la Hoyde (alto), William Goldring (treble), Edward Minton (treble), Ben Harrison (treble)

St. John's College...

With Britten comes the thought of high voices: boys' voices that on this Naxos disc belong to the choir of St. John's College, Cambridge… the St. John's singers roundly capture the elusive tonal... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2000 More…

Catalogue No: 8554791
Label: Naxos
Series: English Choral Music
Length: 73 minutes

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Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30

Work length16:05

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Iain Farrington (organ), Benedict Giles (treble), Thomas Williams (alto), Simon Wall (tenor), Malcolm Green (bass)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues

Track length3:50

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For I will consider my Cat Jeoffrey

Track length2:12

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For the Mouse is a creature of great personal valour

Track length0:57

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For the flowers are great blessings

Track length1:56

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For I am under the same accusation with my Saviour

Track length2:26

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For H is a spirit and therefore he is God

Track length1:01

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For the instruments are by their rhimes

Track length2:31

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Hallelujah from the heart of God

Track length1:12

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Britten: Te Deum in C

Work length7:30

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Iain Farrington (organ), William Goldring (treble)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

Te Deum in C

Track length7:30

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Britten: Jubilate Deo

Work length2:40

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Iain Farrington (organ)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

Britten: Antiphon, Op. 56b

Work length5:09

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Iain Farrington (organ), Benedict Giles (treble), Joseph Helps (treble), Oliver Lepage-Dean (treble)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

Britten: A Hymn to the Virgin

Work length3:08

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William Goldring (treble), Simon Wall (tenor), Christopher de la Hoyde (alto), Reuben Thomas (bass)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

Britten: Festival Te Deum in E, Op. 32

Work length6:04

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Iain Farrington (organ), Benedict Giles (treble)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

Britten: Missa Brevis in D major, Op. 63

Work length9:13

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Iain Farrington (organ), Benedict Giles (treble), William Goldring (treble), Edward Minton (treble)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

Kyrie

Track length1:29

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Gloria

Track length2:51

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Sanctus

Track length1:13

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Benedictus

Track length1:31

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Agnus Dei

Track length2:09

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Britten: Hymn to St. Peter, Op. 56a

Work length5:32

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Iain Farrington (organ), William Goldring (treble)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

Britten: A Hymn of Saint Columba

Work length2:25

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Iain Farrington (organ)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

Britten: Prelude & Fugue on a Theme of Vittoria

Work length5:34

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Iain Farrington (organ)

Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27

Work length10:18

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Benedict Giles (treble), Ben Harrison (treble), Richard Moore (alto), Jonathan Bungard (tenor), Reuben Thomas (bass)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson

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June 2000

With Britten comes the thought of high voices: boys' voices that on this Naxos disc belong to the choir of St. John's College, Cambridge… the St. John's singers roundly capture the elusive tonal qualities of Britten's choral music, and the recording has a proper sense of space and locality.

2010

As with other recent records from St John's, there's a freshness, almost a feeling of adventure and a sense that all this choral discipline is an easy yoke. These are excellent performances, the opening item setting a standard which is to be maintained throughout. Buoyant rhythms, precise accentuations and well-pointed contrasts are features of the singing; and the playing of Ian Farrington in accompaniments that are often difficult and always demanding of maximum alertness, is outstanding. Outstanding, too, is the contribution of the trebles. In tone they preserve the traditional John's sound, without exaggerating its so-called continental element.
But what impresses most is the sense of imaginative involvement. It's there, for instance, in the Kyrie of the Missa brevis, and most of all in the 'I cannot grow' section of A Hymn to St Cecilia. To this they bring a distinctive excitement, a wideeyed, breathlessly playful feeling of childlike wonder. The programme itself is highly attractive.
The 'hymns' are fully developed compositions, and the canticles are notably independent of tradition (for instance, a quietly meditative note of praise is struck at the start of both Te Deums). The Missa brevis makes inventive use of its forces; and Rejoice in the Lamb, a masterly expression of the liberal spirit, never ceases to amaze with its evocation of the cat Jeoffry, valiant mouse and staff-struck poet. Recorded sound isn't as vivid as the performances, but this remains a very likeable disc.

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