The Reeds By Severn Side: Choral Music By Edward Elgar

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

All told, this is another feather in the cap for the increasingly impressive Vann-Royal Hospital Chelsea partnership. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars(Recording) More…

Release Date: 15th Apr 2022
Catalogue No: SOMMCD278
Label: Somm
Length: 79 minutes

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Elgar: Gloria

Work length5:06

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Joshua Ryan, Eloise Irving, Rosemary Clifford, Edward Hughes, Angus McPhee
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: Credo on Themes from Symphonies Nos. 5, 7 and 9 by Beethoven

Work length11:09

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Joshua Ryan, Jenni Harper, Clara Kanter, Edward Hughes, Nathan Harrison
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: Hymn Tune in F major No. 1 (Drakes Broughton)

Work length1:53

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Joshua Ryan
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: O Salutaris Hostia

Work length3:20

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Joshua Ryan
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: Motets (3), Op. 2

Work length9:14

$3.00

$3.90

$5.25

Joshua Ryan, Katy Hill
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

No. 1, Jesu, Word of God Incarnate

Track length2:51

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

No. 2, Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory

Track length2:44

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

No. 3, Jesu, Meek and Lowly

Track length3:39

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Elgar: Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf

Work length2:23

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

No. 18, As Torrents in Summer

Track length2:23

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Excerpt, Elgar: Four Part-songs Op. 53

Work length4:53

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

No. 1, There Is Sweet Music

Track length4:53

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Elgar: Psalm 68

Work length4:22

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Joshua Ryan
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: Angelus

Work length3:29

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: They are at rest

Work length3:27

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: O hearken Thou, Op. 64

Work length2:44

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Joshua Ryan
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: Give unto the Lord (Psalm XXIX), Op. 74

Work length8:29

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Joshua Ryan
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: Fear Not, O Land

Work length3:46

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Joshua Ryan
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: I Sing the Birth

Work length4:09

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Eleanor Minney, Jonathan Hanley, Thomas Stoddart
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: Good Morrow

Work length4:32

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

Elgar: Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode

Work length6:41

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Joshua Ryan
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
William Vann

About
Reviews
Explore

About

"SOMM Recordings announces the release of The Reeds by Severn Side, a ravishing collection of choral works by Edward Elgar, sung by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, led by director William Vann, accompanied by organist Joshua Ryan. Of the 18 featured works, six are first recordings. They traverse Elgar’s remarkable ascension from lowly lawyer’s clerk to self-taught composer to Master of the King’s Musick. And chart the impeccable fusing of his Roman Catholic heritage with the Anglican church tradition to which he contributed several masterpieces. They also reveal what Vaughan Williams described as the 'mystery and [the] miracle' of Elgar’s flowering into the music laureate of Edwardian England, as Andrew Neill, former Chairman of the Elgar Society, observes in his authoritative booklet notes. Alongside juvenilia such as the 16-year-old Elgar’s Credo on Themes from Symphonies 5, 7 and 9 by Beethoven (in James Olsen’s completion) and Drake’s Broughton, to which the 73-year-old composer would return in his Nursery Suite, are diverse works that reveal growing confidence, including early settings of the Mass and first recordings (in English) of the Op.2 trilogy: Jesu, word of God Incarnate; Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory; Jesu, Meek and Lowly. The masterpiece bitonal setting of Tennyson, There is Sweet Music, one of Elgar’s self-described 'choral songs', is a highlight, alongside twin peaks of his anthem writing: O Hearken Thou (heard as the Latin motet, Intende voci orationis meae) and substantial Give Unto the Lord. William Vann and the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea’s previous SOMM releases include In Remembrance (SOMMCD 0187), described by Gramophone as 'almost unbearably moving', and as 'an album that will have enduring value into the future' by MusicWeb International. Carols from Chelsea (SOMMCD 0161) was a Best Classical Christmas Release, praised for its 'model singing', in The Guardian."

Reviews

July 2022

All told, this is another feather in the cap for the increasingly impressive Vann-Royal Hospital Chelsea partnership.

Jan/Feb 2023

The singing on this new recording...is consistently excellent, with the women’s voices sounding particularly impressive. The recording is also very fine, and balances—whether with or without organ—are generally very good...an exceptional disc, and an important contribution to our still-expanding understanding of this fine English composer.

The Reeds By Severn Side

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue