Ian Venables: Requiem | Howells: anthems for choir & orchestra

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Ian Venables: Requiem | Howells: anthems for choir & orchestraSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Conductor Benjamin Nicholas draws parallels between the familiar English choral sound of Howells and that of contemporary composer Ian Venables. Venables Requiem has already been warmly received by critics in a 2020 recording with just organ accompaniment. Now, Nicholas and his Merton College choir present it in an orchestrated version made specially for this recording. The Howells items here are also premiere

thrilling and brilliantly executed performance

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likeably quirky and stylistically quick-change

this terrifyingly compact fifty-minute work reveals Chisholms ability to create music of extraordinary sensuality in which the senses are hideously deceived

Osbert Parsley

But the ultimate defining elements are Čičić’s gut-stringed instrument

'This album by the gloriously expressive

'the recording of Vivaldi's Concerto in D

Purcell's Westminster Abbey (Christ is made the sure foundation') benefits from the rousing addition of timpani and brass

who narrates Sally Beamish’s evocative The Seafarer Trio with a mingled intimacy and plangency

The Epiphoni Consort follow up on their acclaimed debut

as it was originally heard in 1880

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