A Walk With Ivor Gurney / Tenebrae

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Tenebrae join the Aurora Orchestra with mezzo soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and narrator Simon Callow for ‘A Walk with Ivor Gurney’, an album of choral music celebrating the works of Ivor Gurney whose promising career as a composer was interrupted by World War I. Alongside four pieces of Gurney’s own music are works by his contemporaries, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Herbert Howells. The recording features a new piece by Judith Bingham commissioned by Tenebrae in 2013 for the choir with Dame Sarah Connolly. Described as “phenomenal” (The Times) and “devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine), award-winning choir Tenebrae, under the direction of Nigel Short, is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles renowned for its passion and precision. “For purity and precision of tone, and flawless intonation, Nigel Short’s chamber choir Tenebrae is pretty much unbeatable.” (The Times)



Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: SIGCD557


  • UPC: 635212055724


  • Label: Signum Classics


  • Composer: Herbert Howells, Ivor Gurney, Judith Bingham, Ralph Vaughan Williams


  • Conductor: Nigel Short


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Aurora Orchestra, Tenebrae


  • Performer: James Sherlock, Sarah Connolly



Works:


  1. Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ensemble: Aurora Orchestra

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  2. A Walk with Ivor Gurney

    Composer: Judith Bingham

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Performer: Sarah Connolly (Mezzo Soprano)

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  3. Anthems (4) for Chorus: no 3, Like as the hart desireth

    Composer: Herbert Howells

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Performer: James Sherlock (Organ)

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  4. Since I believe in God the Father Almighty

    Composer: Ivor Gurney

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  5. By a Bierside

    Composer: Ivor Gurney

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  6. In Flanders

    Composer: Ivor Gurney

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  7. Elizabethan Songs (5) for voice & piano: No. 4, Sleep

    Composer: Ivor Gurney

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  8. Oxford Elegy

    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  9. Valiant for truth

    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Performer: Sarah Connolly (Mezzo Soprano)

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  10. Lord, thou hast been our refuge

    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Performer: James Sherlock (Organ)

    Conductor: Nigel Short


  11. Lord, thou hast been our refuge

    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ensemble: Tenebrae

    Performer: James Sherlock (Organ)

    Conductor: Nigel Short