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Special offer. Wilby: An English Passion According to Saint Matthew
Jack Wilson, Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Elwin, Ben McAteer, Seán Boylan, David Leigh
Belfast Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens
This is a truly important release, all premiere recordings of works composed between 2014 and 2019 by a master craftsman.
Special offer. Wilby: An English Passion According to Saint Matthew
Jack Wilson, Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Elwin, Ben McAteer, Seán Boylan, David Leigh
Belfast Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens
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This is a truly important release, all premiere recordings of works composed between 2014 and 2019 by a master craftsman.
About
Composer Phillip Wilby has built his reputation on writing for brass band and music for the Christian liturgy, for which he composes extensively. The three works presented on this album were all composed between 2014 and 2019, the earliest of which is the Knaresborough Service, commissioned by the Parish Church of St John the Baptist in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. The anthem God’s Grandeur was written in 2017 and is a setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem of the same name.Wilby’s An English Passion According to Saint Matthew was written in 2018, for Matthew Owens and the choir of Wells Cathedral. One important characteristic of the work are the congregational hymns are taken from the collection of English tunes, published by Vaughan Williams in his English Hymnal of 1906. These hymns, with their timeless melodies, anchor the Passion in a very English setting.
Contents and tracklist
- Jack Wilson
- Belfast Cathedral Choir
- Matthew Owens
- Jack Wilson
- Belfast Cathedral Choir
- Matthew Owens
- Belfast Cathedral Choir
- Matthew Owens
- Mhairi Lawson, Jack Wilson, Helen Charlston, Thomas Elwin, Ben McAteer, Seán Boylan, David Leigh
- Belfast Cathedral Choir
- Matthew Owens
- Mhairi Lawson, Helen Charlston, Thomas Elwin, Ben McAteer, Seán Boylan, David Leigh, Jack Wilson
- Belfast Cathedral Choir
- Matthew Owens
Awards and reviews
May 2022
This is a truly important release, all premiere recordings of works composed between 2014 and 2019 by a master craftsman.