Naxos
Stanford: Choral Music / Hill, Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony
$19.99
Details
- Composer
- STANFORD, CHARLES VILLIERS
- Artist
- Cragg, Hopper, Murray, Soar, Hill
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Naxos
- Released
- Sep 09, 2016
- Catalog #
- 8573512
- UPC
- 747313351275
About
Choral music was central to Charles Villiers Stanford's life as a composer. Balancing solemnity with rapturous affirmation. The Resurrection was his first major choral work, written while he was studying under Carl Reinecke in Leipzig and anticipating Mahler's use of Klopstock's eponymous poem in his "Resurrection" Symphony. The dramatic, at times almost operatic and Wagnerian Stabat Mater is a cantata with two purely orchestral movements suggestive of a large-scale symphony, while Song to the Soul contains some of Stanford's most exhilarating utterances, though it was never performed in his lifetime.
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 Prelude 09:05
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Prelude
- Duration
- 09:05
- Composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Ensemble
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Hill
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2 Stabat Mater dolorosa (Solo Quartet, Chorus) 12:13
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Stabat Mater dolorosa (Solo Quartet, Chorus)
- Duration
- 12:13
- Composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Performer
- Elizabeth Cragg, Catherine Hopper, Robert Murray, David Soar
- Ensemble
- The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Hill
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3 Intermezzo 03:05
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Intermezzo
- Duration
- 03:05
- Composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Ensemble
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Hill
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4 Eja Mater (Solo Quartet, Chorus) 06:38
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Eja Mater (Solo Quartet, Chorus)
- Duration
- 06:38
- Composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Performer
- Elizabeth Cragg, Catherine Hopper, Robert Murray, David Soar
- Ensemble
- The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Hill
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5 Finale: Virgo virginum praeclara (Solo Quartet, Chorus) 13:11
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Finale: Virgo virginum praeclara (Solo Quartet, Chorus)
- Duration
- 13:11
- Composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Performer
- Elizabeth Cragg, Catherine Hopper, Robert Murray, David Soar
- Ensemble
- The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Hill
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6 Song to the Soul, Op. 97b 13:35
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Song to the Soul, Op. 97b
- Duration
- 13:35
- Composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Ensemble
- The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Hill
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7 The Resurrection, Op. 5 12:30
- Track
- 7
- Title
- The Resurrection, Op. 5
- Duration
- 12:30
- Composer
- Charles Villiers Stanford
- Performer
- Robert Murray
- Ensemble
- The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- David Hill