Stanford: Choral Music / Hill, Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
September 9, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      STANFORD, CHARLES VILLIERS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Cragg, Hopper, Murray, Soar, Hill
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 09, 2016
    • UPC
      747313351275
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573512
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Prelude

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: David Hill

    2. Stabat Mater dolorosa (Solo Quartet, Chorus)

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Cragg, Catherine Hopper, Robert Murray, David Soar

      Conductor: David Hill

    3. Intermezzo

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: David Hill

    4. Eja Mater (Solo Quartet, Chorus)

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Cragg, Catherine Hopper, Robert Murray, David Soar

      Conductor: David Hill

    5. Finale: Virgo virginum praeclara (Solo Quartet, Chorus)

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Elizabeth Cragg, Catherine Hopper, Robert Murray, David Soar

      Conductor: David Hill

    6. Song to the Soul, Op. 97b

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: David Hill

    7. The Resurrection, Op. 5

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: The Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Robert Murray

      Conductor: David Hill


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.