King: Music for Gloucester Cathedral / Hope, Jones, Partington, Gloucester Cathedral Choir

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SOMM Recordings
Release Date
April 1, 2022
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SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the first recordings of church music by Ian King composed for, and performed by, Gloucester Cathedral Choir. Led by the Cathedral’s Director of Music, Adrian Partington, with Nia Llewelyn Jones, conductor of the Girls’ Choristers, and Assistant Director of Music Jonathan Hope as organist, the choir presents first recordings of 11 works composed between 2012 and 2020 by Ian King. All were first performed in the imposing surroundings of Gloucester Cathedral, where this recording was made in June 2021.Ian King died shortly before the sessions took place but had worked closely with Adrian Partington in planning this recording and was delighted that these choral works were to be committed to disc by the choir for which they were written. The program includes the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis commissioned for the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival in 2016, a setting of the St. John Passion, specifically designed for liturgical use, and a wonderfully atmospheric realization of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, The Christmas Truce. Adrian Partington commented: “I believe that in time Ian King will be recognized as a significant composer of Anglican Church Music. It has been a privilege for me to conduct all these wonderful works; I am delighted that the Gloucester Cathedral Choir has made their premiere recordings. These, and the rest of Ian’s choral output, deserve to be widely known and performed. I hope our recording will bring them to the attention of other conductors and choirs.”


Product Description:

  • Release Date: April 01, 2022


  • UPC: 748871064928


  • Catalog Number: SOMMCD 0649


  • Label: SOMM Recordings


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Ian King


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir


  • Performer: Adrian Partington, Nia Llewelyn Jones, Jonathan Hope



Works:

  1. The Gloucester Service

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  2. We beseech Thee, Almighty God

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  3. O clap your hands

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  4. O God, who by the leading of a star

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  5. Jubilate

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  6. The Gloucester Girls' Service

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  7. Almighty and everliving God

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  8. The Christmas Truce

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  9. God, who as at this time

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  10. The St. John Passion

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington


  11. Almighty God, give us grace

    Composer: Ian King

    Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

    Performer: Jonathan Hope

    Conductor: Nia Llewelyn Jones, Adrian Partington