Choral Songs in Honour of Queen Victoria
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Label: Toccata Classics
Cat No: TOCC0012
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 18th May 2009
Contents
Works
GoodhartLady on the silver throne (Edmund Gosse)
Somervell
With still increasing blessings (Marquis of Lorne)
Lloyd
A thousand years, by sea and land (Henry Newbolt)
Elgar
To her beneath whose stedfast star (Frederic W. H. Myers)
Stanford
Out in the windy West (Arthur C Benson)
Bridge
For all the wonder of thy regal day (Earl of Crewe)
Stainer
Flora’s Queen (JFR Stainer)
Wood
A Century’s Penultimate (Arthur C James)
Mackenzie
With wisdom, goodness, grace (Alfred Austin)
Parry
Who can dwell with greatness! (Austin Dobson)
Davies
Hark! The world is full of thy praise (Robert Bridges)
Martin
The seaboards are her mantle’s hem (John Davidson)
Parratt
The Triumph of Victoria (T. H. Warren)
Artists
Spiritus Chamber ChoirConductor
Aidan OliverWorks
GoodhartLady on the silver throne (Edmund Gosse)
Somervell
With still increasing blessings (Marquis of Lorne)
Lloyd
A thousand years, by sea and land (Henry Newbolt)
Elgar
To her beneath whose stedfast star (Frederic W. H. Myers)
Stanford
Out in the windy West (Arthur C Benson)
Bridge
For all the wonder of thy regal day (Earl of Crewe)
Stainer
Flora’s Queen (JFR Stainer)
Wood
A Century’s Penultimate (Arthur C James)
Mackenzie
With wisdom, goodness, grace (Alfred Austin)
Parry
Who can dwell with greatness! (Austin Dobson)
Davies
Hark! The world is full of thy praise (Robert Bridges)
Martin
The seaboards are her mantle’s hem (John Davidson)
Parratt
The Triumph of Victoria (T. H. Warren)
Artists
Spiritus Chamber ChoirConductor
Aidan OliverAbout
On the morning of the Queen’s birthday, 24 May 1899, an ‘aubade’ was arranged in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle and the Queen listened at the window of her breakfast room, while massed choirs performed four of the songs. This tribute by the musical establishment emulated Thomas Morley’s volume 'The Triumphes of Oriana' published in 1601 in honour of Queen Elizabeth I.
The collection is fascinating for catching the prevailing British musical ethos at the turn of the century and for heralding the renaissance in British music to come. These choral songs are remarkable for their variety and invention, containing works by the leading organists and professors of the day, as well as Elgar, Wood and Somervell, representing the next generation.
Of these thirteen partsongs, only the Elgar has been recorded before. The recording is sumptuously presented in a slipcase with a 64‐page booklet, containing an essay by British music expert Lewis Foreman, the full sung texts and French and German translations.
Spiritus Chamber Choir was founded by Aidan Oliver in 2000. The group specialises in performing in venues of particular historical or architectural interest, presenting wide‐ranging programmes of music from all periods and has appeared in venues including the Temple Church, the National Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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