St. John Henry Newman: A Meditation

$10.49
Label
Coro
Release Date
June 3, 2022
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      The Sixteen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 03, 2022
    • UPC
      828021619120
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      COR16191
    • LABEL
      Coro
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical

The five new choral works on this album – by James MacMillan, Will Todd, Anna Semple, Eoghan Desmond and Lisa Robertson – all grew from a meditation by St John Henry Newman. Newman was a theologian of towering stature and broad influence and his meditation resonates with great clarity in our present age of the re-evaluation of what we can and cannot do without, and of the profound human need for a sense of meaning and purpose. Canonized in October 2019, Newman's writings represent a rich and thought-provoking legacy and, alongside the new works presented, are immortalized in three well-known hymns and Sir Edward Elgar’s exquisite elegy 'They are at rest'. Also included are two of Elgar’s psalm settings – Great is the Lord and Give unto the Lord. These are monumental works for choir and organ, full of grandeur and drama, but also inherently simple. The album ends with a ’Bonus’ track by Bob Chilcott - also a Genesis Foundation commission - based on Psalm 139.