Holst: I Vow to Thee, My Country / Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

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SOMM Recordings
Release Date
December 2, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Gustav Holst
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Chapel Choir Of The Royal Hospital Chelsea
    • PERFORMER
      Joshua Ryan, Richard Horne
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 02, 2022
    • UPC
      748871227927
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 279
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Nunc dimittis

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    2. Gird on Thy Sword

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    3. Psalm 86, "To my humble supplication"

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    4. Psalm 148, "Lord, Who hast made us for thine own"

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    5. 4 Hymns for Songs of Praise: No. 2. In This World, the Isle of Dreams

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    6. Not Unto Us, O Lord

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    7. Our Blest Redeemer

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    8. Short Festival Te Deum (arr. I. Farrington for choir and organ)

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    9. 3 Hymns for The English Hymnal: No. 2. From Glory to Glory Advancing

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    10. Man Born to Toil

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Richard Horne, Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    11. Eternal Father

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Richard Horne, Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    12. By Weary Stages the Old World Ages

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    13. Christ Hath a Garden

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    14. Ave Maria, Op. 9b

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    15. I Vow to Thee, My Country

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    16. 3 Festival Choruses, Op. 36a: No. 3. A Festival Chime (arr. I. Farrington for choir, tubular bells and organ)

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Richard Horne, Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    17. All People That on Earth Do Dwell

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    18. 3 Festival Choruses, Op. 36a: No. 1. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (arr. I. Farrington for choir and organ)

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    19. 3 Festival Choruses, Op. 36a: No. 2. Turn Back, O Man (arr. I. Farrington for choir and organ)

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann


SOMM RECORDINGS announces the release of I Vow to Thee, My Country, believed to be the first recording to feature all of Gustav Holst’s sacred choral music, by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea directed by William Vann, with organist Joshua Ryan and Richard Horne on tubular and bass bells. A prolific composer best known for his orchestral spectacular The Planets, Holst was an expressive and sincere composer and arranger of religious music despite his professed agnosticism. Included are his only setting of the Anglican Service for Evening Prayer, Nunc Dimittis, and his substantial Two Psalms and Four Festival Choruses, whose inspirations range from the Bible, Byzantine liturgy, 16th-century sources (not least Bach), and Welsh hymns. The 12 other featured songs see Holst setting an impressive array of centuries-spanning texts, and include the striking eight-part setting of Ave Maria for unaccompanied female voices, the ecstatic Not Unto Us, O Lord, premiered by the Royal Hospital Chelsea and William Vann in 2020, and the disc’s anthemic title song, its melody borrowed from The Planets’ ‘Jupiter’. I Vow to Thee, My Country is sponsored by The Holst Society, who also commissioned four new arrangements making their debut on album by Iain Farrington, and includes extensive, authoritative notes by Andrew Neill.