Howells: Requiem & other works

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In a work intended to console, it's important that the actual sound the choir makes is warmly consoling. It certainly is in this new Trinity College recording of Howells's 1932 Requiem...It's... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Mar 2012
Catalogue No: CDA67914
Label: Hyperion
Length: 64 minutes

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Howells: A Hymn for St Cecilia

Work length3:07

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Simon Bland (organ)
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton

Excerpt, Howells: Anthems (4) to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Op. 9

Work length4:59

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Hannah Partridge (soprano)
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton

IV. Salve regina

Track length4:59

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Howells: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Gloucester, 1946)

Work length10:58

$2.20

$3.00

Jeremy Cole (organ)
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton

I. Magnificat

Track length6:25

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II. Nunc dimittis

Track length4:33

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Howells: Take him, earth, for cherishing

Work length9:00

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Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton

Howells: Magnificat (St Paul's Service)

Work length12:13

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$3.00

Simon Bland (organ)
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton

I. Magnificat

Track length6:40

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II. Nunc dimittis

Track length5:33

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Howells: Requiem

Work length20:15

$6.60

$9.00

Hannah Partridge (soprano), Amy Lyddon-Towl (alto), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Laurence Williams (bass)
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton

I. Salvator mundi

Track length2:38

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II. Psalm 23

Track length2:42

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III. Requiem aeternam I

Track length3:45

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IV. Psalm 121

Track length3:04

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V. Requiem aeternam II

Track length3:37

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VI. I heard a voice from heaven

Track length4:29

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Howells: All my hope on God is founded

Work length3:28

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Jeremy Cole (organ)
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton

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Favourites, Gerald Finzi and Herbert Howells

David picks out some top recordings of two great twentieth-century English composers, Gerald Finzi and Herbert Howells.

Herbert Howells was acutely sensitive to the transience of life, having witnessed the loss of friends and contemporaries in the First World War and encountered deep personal tragedy when his son Michael died of polio at the age of just nine. And so a mood of elegiac yearning inhabits much of his choral music: the austere, lovely a cappella Requiem, and the elegant Take him, earth, for cherishing, commissioned to commemorate the death of President John F Kennedy, here lovingly performed by the young voices of Trinity College Choir, Cambridge, in Hyperion’s Record of the Month for April 2012.

And yet Howells could write magnificently thrilling music too, as demonstrated by the fresh brilliance of A Hymn for St Cecilia, the spine-tingling grandeur of the St Paul’s Service, or the life-affirming hymn ‘All my hope on God is founded’, here further sweetened with a descant by John Rutter.

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June 2012

In a work intended to console, it's important that the actual sound the choir makes is warmly consoling. It certainly is in this new Trinity College recording of Howells's 1932 Requiem...It's fascinating to note, too, the difference undergraduate voices make in this music...The purity of vibrato-free voices is again a major plus-point at the opening of the Gloucester Service...A superb one-stop introduction to Howells's choral music.

16th June 2012

a glorious celebration of Howells' sacred output...Gorgeously sung throughout, this is repertoire perfectly suited to Trinity Choir's pure, chorister-like sound. Their graceful, dignified reading of the Requiem, framed within the wonderful acoustic of Ely Cathedral's Lady Chapel, is one to cherish.

June 2012

Hyperion's disc...is all more impressive for dispelling the clouds of dissonance that have given Howell the bad name of a meandering mystic and letting us hear what a fine ear he had...Had good it is to hear the St Paul Service not swallowed up by the dome that cathedral but still buttressed by a mighty Willis beast, belonging in this case to Lincoln...This is a perfect disc of its kind.

June 2012

Trinity's recording allow[s] the music to be served but not overwhelmed by the choir's first-rate technical ability...The Gloucester service is relaxed and smoothly flowing, though I do wonder whether it's all just a little too coolly handled

October 2014

Layton's young, mixed choir at Trinity College Cambridge have the perfect voices for this music - fresh, yet with reserves of richness and depth that pay dividends.

29th March 2012

Layton's performances have exactly the poise and careful moulding that this rather fragile, deeply felt music needs.

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