In Remembrance

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
October 26, 2018
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Chapel Choir Of The Royal Hospital Chelsea
    • PERFORMER
      Vann
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 26, 2018
    • UPC
      748871018723
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0187
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Greater love hath no man

      Composer: John Ireland

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Leah Jackson, Gareth Brynmor John, Hugh Rowlands

      Conductor: William Vann

    2. Jerusalem

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chelsea Pensioners

      Performer: Hugh Rowlands

      Conductor: William Vann

    3. For the Fallen

      Composer: Douglas Guest

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    4. They are at rest

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    5. O Valiant Hearts

      Composer: Charles K. Harris

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chelsea Pensioners

      Performer: Hugh Rowlands

      Conductor: William Vann

    6. Songs of Farewell: No. 4. There is an old belief

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    7. I vow to thee, my country

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Chelsea Pensioners

      Performer: Hugh Rowlands

      Conductor: William Vann

    8. 3 Latin Motets, Op. 38: No. 1. Justorum animae

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    9. Ode to Death, Op. 38

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: James Orford

      Conductor: William Vann

    10. Introit et Kyrie

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: James Orford

      Conductor: William Vann

    11. Offertoire

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, James Orford

      Conductor: William Vann

    12. Sanctus

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Hugh Rowlands

      Conductor: William Vann

    13. Pie Jesu

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Katy Hill, James Orford

      Conductor: William Vann

    14. Agnus dei

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: James Orford

      Conductor: William Vann

    15. Libera me

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, James Orford

      Conductor: William Vann

    16. In paradisum

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Hugh Rowlands

      Conductor: William Vann

    17. Requiem aeternam

      Composer: Ian Venables

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Hugh Rowlands

      Conductor: William Vann


In the centenary anniversary year of the end of the First World War and on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, SOMM Recordings pays tribute to those who fought and fell in battle with In Remembrance. A moving compendium of music spanning 130 years, it features the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, the Choir of Chelsea Pensioners, Staff and Volunteers, sopranos Katy Hill and Leah Jackson, baritone Gareth John and organists James Orford and Hugh Rowlands under the direction of William Vann. Founded in 1682 by King Charles II, the Royal Hospital is home to the world-famous Chelsea Pensioners - retired veterans of the British army - whose contributions on three tracks adds it's own special poignancy to In Remembrance. Moving choral works commemorating courage and offering comfort by Hubert Parry, Gustav Holst, and Edward Elgar are heard alongside equally affecting pieces by their contemporaries and successors, Charles Villiers Stanford, John Ireland, Douglas Guest and Charles Harris. Fauré's Requiem, arranged for choir and organ by Iain Farrington, and Ian Venable's newly-composed Requiem aeternam (in it's first recording) both offer succor and solace in their conviction that death is not the end but, as Fauré thought of it: "a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience."