When first thine eies unveil: Choral Music by Herbert Howells

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Expertly performed by Spicer’s 24 hand-picked singers: their musicianship, excellent intonation, balance and fresh tone are a constant pleasure in this delightful disc. — Choir & Organ More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2014
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0140
Label: Somm
Length: 79 minutes

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Howells: Walking in the Snow

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: Long, Long Ago

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: Aubade for a Wedding (Levavi oculos meos)

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Jonathan Stamp
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: In youth is pleasure

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: Before me, careless, lying

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: O salutaris Hostia

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: Missa sine nomine "Mass in the Dorian Mode"

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Kyrie

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Gloria

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Credo

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Sanctus

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Benedictus

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Osanna

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Agnus Dei I

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Agnus Dei II

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

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Rosie Walker
Paul Spicer

No. Salve Regina

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Howells: My Eyes for Beauty Pine

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Jonathan Stamp
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: When first thine eies unveil

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Christopher Fitzgerald Lombard, Jonathan Stamp
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: O Mortal Man

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Jonathan Stamp
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: Haec dies

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

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

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Regina coeli

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Howells: Nunc dimittis

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Rachel Crisp
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

Howells: Antiphon

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer

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This recording brings together for the first time Howells’ complete extant Latin church music for Westminster Cathedral, composed when he was a student of Stanford at the RCM. It also features other significant rarely (if ever) heard music, including a first recording of the extraordinary Holst-like anthem When first thine eies unveil which was written at the same time as Mine eyes for beauty pine. It also includes for the first time another pairing, Walking in the Snow with Long, Long Ago written for George Guest’s Lady Margaret Singers in Cambridge. Additionally, there is another premiere, Levavi oculos, Paul Spicer’s reconstruction of a wedding anthem for Hereford Cathedral, and Howells’ lovely arrangement of the Sussex Mummers’ Carol: O Mortal Man. The disc ends with one of Howells’ last motets: the ferocious and challenging Antiphon, setting George Herbert’s famous words ‘Let all the world’.

This is the third recording in a continuing collaboration between SOMM and Paul Spicer’s Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, which continues to yield many riches. “everything in this finely executed disc is worth hearing,and the final track, the well-known (or it ought to be) My heart in thine, is as moving as ever.” (Stanford Partsongs SOMM0128) Piers Burton-Page, International Record Review

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Expertly performed by Spicer’s 24 hand-picked singers: their musicianship, excellent intonation, balance and fresh tone are a constant pleasure in this delightful disc.

December 2014

There is something distinctly numinous about the sound of Howells's choral music, especially for unaccompanied chamber choir, and in the hands of one of its specialists, Paul Spicer, it acquires an enhanced richness and insight into the phrasing of the composer's long, contrapuntal lines...A lovely CD.

1st September 2014

Hot on the heels of the Bach Choir's recent Howells Stabat Mater comes this collection from the ever-rewarding Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir...the album takes its title from a dramatic setting of the Henry Vaughan poem When first thine eies unveil, which features a fine solo from Christopher Fitzgerald Lombard.

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