Vidi Speciosam: Sacred Choral Music
The Bevan Family Consort, Graham Ross
Classics (and the odd surprise) with Victoria’s Missa Vidi speciosam as the centrepiece are delivered with care, musicality and bags of personality. No pinprick sopranos here but soft-focus...
Vidi Speciosam: Sacred Choral Music
The Bevan Family Consort, Graham Ross
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Classics (and the odd surprise) with Victoria’s Missa Vidi speciosam as the centrepiece are delivered with care, musicality and bags of personality. No pinprick sopranos here but soft-focus...
About
Soprano Mary Bevan writes: “In 1975, the original Bevan Family Choir released their debut album on vinyl, featuring an eclectic programme of sacred choral works, Welsh folk songs, and piano music.
“The Choir consisted of 11 of the 14 Bevan siblings and was conducted by their father, Roger. Later on the Choir was taken over by the second eldest son, David, who was to go on to become Assistant Director of Music at Westminster Cathedral.
“The musical tradition continued to flourish within the family until, in 2013, some of the second generation of cousins decided to create their own version of the family choir, naming themselves the Bevan Family Consort so as to distinguish them from their parents’ generation.
“The Consort has since ranged in size from 15-22 of the 53 first cousins.
“To honour David and the influence he had over us all as musicians, this disc consists of music that was introduced to us by him during his years at the Holy Redeemer Church and that have since become beloved by us as a choir.”
Contents and tracklist
- Dominic Bevan
- The Bevan Family Consort
- Graham Ross
- David Bevan
- The Bevan Family Consort
- Graham Ross
- Edward Bevan
- The Bevan Family Consort
- Graham Ross
- Dominic Bevan
- The Bevan Family Consort
- Graham Ross
- Mary Bevan, Harry Bevan
- The Bevan Family Consort
- Graham Ross
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Awards and reviews
July 2023
Classics (and the odd surprise) with Victoria’s Missa Vidi speciosam as the centrepiece are delivered with care, musicality and bags of personality. No pinprick sopranos here but soft-focus haze and blossomy, full-throated warmth: the Raymond Leppard of choral tones.
21st May 2023
All receive performances of exquisite subtlety and clarity, and the Consort captures perfectly Stanford’s Beati quorum via, whose closing passage is one of the most beautiful in the English choral canon.
All receive performances of exquisite subtlety and clarity, and the Consort captures perfectly Stanford’s Beati quorum via, whose closing passage is one of the most beautiful in the English choral canon.
