English Choral Music: Walton
Director of Music:
Christopher RobinsonOrgan Scholar:
Christopher WhittonRelease date:
January 2002Record label:
NaxosCatalogue number:
8.555793Awards:
Editor's Choice
Gramophone
March 2002
Track list
- Coronation Te Deum
- A Litany: Drop, drop slow tears
- Magnificat
- Nunc dimittis
- Where does the uttered music go?
- Jubilate Deo
- Organ Solo: Henry V: Touch her soft lifts and part
- Organ Solo: Henry V: Passacaglia "Death of Falstaff"
- The Twelve
- Set me as a seal upon thine heart
- Antiphon
- Kyrie: Missa Brevis
- Sanctus and Benedictus: Missa Brevis
- Agnus Dei: Missa Brevis
- Gloria: Missa Brevis
Reviews
The presence of boys' voices consistently brings extra freshness to the St John's Choir's performances, giving them the sort of bite one can imagine the composer having in mind, with Waltonian syncopations wonderfully idiomatic in their crisp articulation
Editor's Choice. Edward Greenfield, Gramophone (March 2002)
All are dispatched with the style and professionalism that guarantee the status of St John's as one of the leading choirs in the country
Barry Millington, BBC Music Magazine (April 2002)
The choir is one of the finest in England, and with their keenly pointed tone and astounding precision, a better choir could hardly be imagined for this repertory. Walton's sometime abrasive harmonies and intricate rhythms make this extraordinarily difficult music, but all of the works are sung here with amazing polish and assurance...The recorded sound is remarkably clear...This is a must for anyone who cares about Walton or about 20th Century English cathedral music
American Record Guide (August 2002)
This disc of Walton’s church music and smaller choral pieces is another Naxos’s superb series of English choral music from St John’s College, Cambridge
Penguin Guide (January 2009)
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The commitment, projection and natural energy of this choir have never failed to inspire me
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