Ralph Vaughan Williams: Earth's Wide Bounds

[The Te Deum in G] is delivered with lusty relish by the Royal Hospital choir, particularly in the ringing antiphonal exchanges. O Clap Your Hands has similar ebullience, and the motet Valiant-for-Truth... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 4th Mar 2022
Catalogue No: ALBCD051
Label: Albion Records
Series: Vaughan Williams 150
Length: 77 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Te Deum in G

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Joshua Ryan (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: For all the saints (Sine nomine)

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Joshua Ryan (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: O Clap Your Hands (Psalm 47)

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Joshua Ryan (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: He who would valiant be

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Joshua Ryan (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: Communion Service in G minor

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Joshua Ryan (organ), Rowan Williams, Leah Jackson, Charlie Morris, Simon Wall, Adrian Horsewood, Eloise Irving, Ciara Hendrick, Joseph Doody, James Arthurt, Helen Ashby, Clara Kanter, Jonny Beatty, Nicholas Ashby, Katy Hill, Emma Ashby, Tom Castle, Nathan Harrison, Jenni Harper, Rosemary Clifford, Jonathan Hanley, Angus McPhee
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

I. Responses to Commandments

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II. Kyrie

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III. Creed

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IV. Sanctus

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V. Benedictus

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VI. Agnus Dei

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VII. Gloria in Excelsis

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Vaughan Williams: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

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Joshua Ryan (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: O Taste and See

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Joshua Ryan (organ), Leah Jackson (soprano)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

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Joshua Ryan (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: Prayer to the Father of Heaven

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Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: O God of earth and altar

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Joshua Ryan (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: Let all the world in every corner sing

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Joshua Ryan (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney)

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Joshua Ryan (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth

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Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Vaughan Williams: By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame

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Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

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This album is a choral compendium of works by Ralph Vaughan Williams comprising premiere recordings of both the Communion Service in G minor and the Nocturne: By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame, plus the Te Deum in G and hymns and anthems including Valiant for Truth.

The centrepiece here is the first complete recording of the Communion Service in G minor the 1923 English translation and revision of the Latin Mass in G minor which had been published just a year earlier. In keeping with the 1662 Anglican communion service then in use, the Gloria comes at the end; the service begins with sung responses to the ten commandments, read by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Five movements require a quartet as well as a double chorus. William Vann has confidence in every member of his Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, so each of those movements has a different quartet, thus giving individual voice to 20 of the choristers.

It is surprising that 'By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame', an early Walt Whitman setting, has lain neglected in manuscript for so long. This lovely setting for unaccompanied chorus started life as a Ballade for quintet in 1904 and was revised as a Nocturne, still for quintet, in 1906. The choral version must have come soon afterwards, thus representing the next stage in the experiment.

'Valiant-for-Truth' is a popular work, but few of the standard reference books on RVW have very much to say about it. Even Michael Kennedy does little more than tell us that it was written in November 1940. That date when the war news was bleak is the key to the selection of the text. It has nothing to do with the (then unfinished) opera 'Pilgrim's Progress' it's drawn from altogether the wrong part of the novel but Mr Valiant-for-Truth had fought three 'rogues', emerging scarred but victorious; he passed through the River to his reward, 'and the trumpets all sounded for him on the other side.'"

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May 2022

[The Te Deum in G] is delivered with lusty relish by the Royal Hospital choir, particularly in the ringing antiphonal exchanges. O Clap Your Hands has similar ebullience, and the motet Valiant-for-Truth is another interpretive highlight...Warmly recommended to Vaughan Williams completists.

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