Hubert Parry: Invocation to Music (Ode for Henry Purcell) on 2 CDs
Invocation to Music (Ode for Henry Purcell)
Anne Dawson, Della Jones, Arthur Davies, Brian Rayner Cook, London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Bamert, Richard Hickox
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CDs
CD (Compact Disc)
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
+The Soul's Ransom; The Lotos-Eaters; Blest pair of Sirens; I was glad
- Artists:
- Anne Dawson, Della Jones, Arthur Davies, Brian Rayner Cook, London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Bamert, Richard Hickox
- Label:
- Chandos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1988/91
- Item number:
- 3630273
- UPC/EAN:
- 0095115243121
- Release date:
- 24.3.2006
Chandos has been a major player in the long overdue rehabilitation of Parry's music. Here his most important large scale choral works are available as a 2-CD set for the first time at the price of one full price disc.
The only available set of these large scale choral works combined with two of Parry's most shorter popular works.
It features outstanding soloists supported by both the LPO under Bamert and the LSO under Hickox.
It comes complete with a booklet containing comprehensive notes and full texts
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Tracklisting
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details
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Contributors
Disk 1 von 2 (CD)
The Soul's Ransom (Sinfonia Sacra) (für Sopran, Baß, Chor und Orchester)
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1 Section 1: Introduction
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2 Chor: Who can number the sands of the sea
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3 Section 2: Hear ye this, O ye people
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4 Chor: We look for light, but behold darkness
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5 Solo and Chor: Why are ye so fearful, O ye of little faith?
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6 Section 3: The hand of the Lord was upon me
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7 Section 4: The people that walked in darkness
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8 Chor: See now, ye that love the light
The Lotos Eaters (für Sopran, Chor und Orchester)
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9 Chor: There is sweet music here that softer falls
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10 Chor: Why are we weigh'd upon with heaviness
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11 Solo: Lo! in the middle of the wood
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12 Chor: Hateful is the dark-blue sky
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13 Solo: How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream
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14 Chor: Dear is the memory of our wedded lives
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15 Solo: But, propt on beds of amaranth and moly
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16 Chor and Solo: The Lotos blooms below the barren peak
Disk 2 von 2 (CD)
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1 Blest Pair of Sirens
Invocation to Music (An Ode in Honour of Henry Purcell by Robert Bridges)
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2 Introduction and Chor: Myriad voiced Queen!
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3 Solo und Chor: Turn, O return!
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4 Solo: Thee, fair Poetry oft hath sought
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5 Chor: The monstrouse sea
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6 Duett: Love to Love calleth
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7 Solo: To me, to me, fair-hearted Goddess, come!
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8 Chor: Man, born of desire
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9 Solo and Chor: Rejoice, ye dead, where'er your spirits dwell
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10 Terzett: O enter with me gates of delight
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11 Chor: Thou, O Queen of sinless grace
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12 I was glad
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