Edmund Rubbra: Choral Works
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
This is a disc which anybody remotely interested in Rubbra will want to purchase.
Edmund Rubbra: Choral Works
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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This is a disc which anybody remotely interested in Rubbra will want to purchase.
About
The distinctive style of Edmund Rubbra’s music is unmistakable – his love of counterpoint, his sense of tonality, and his clever working of melody make him stand out from many of his contemporaries. His writing, whilst harmonically challenging and vocally taxing, is also intensely personal and highly charged with emotion - at times mystical, at others seriously dramatic.
Though he is best-known for his orchestral works, choral music was a constant throughout his career, and a genre of particular importance to a composer of strong spiritual conviction.
In this beautiful new recording The Sixteen explores some of his little-known choral music including the extraordinary Tenebrae Nocturns and the Missa Cantuariensis with its fabulous double-choir writing.
This album also features the first recording of the Responses from the Missa Cantuariensis.
Contents and tracklist
- Kirsty Hopkins, Kim Porter, Mark Dobell
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers
- Daniel Collins, Robert Quinney, Julie Cooper
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers
- Kirsty Hopkins, Kim Porter, Mark Dobell, Ben Davies
- The Sixteen
- Harry Christophers
Awards and reviews
December 2016
This is a disc which anybody remotely interested in Rubbra will want to purchase.
11th September 2016
Christophers and the Sixteen make a convincing case for a reappraisal of his choral music...Each piece is sung with the purity and sincerity we have come to expect from one of the UK’s most treasured and respected vocal ensembles.
Classical Ear October 2016
well-nigh flawless renderings from The Sixteen under Harry Christophers…high-class advocacy of some enormously rewarding repertoire
