Vaughan Williams : Sacred Choral Music - The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown

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Ashok Gupta (organ)

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown

Ralph Vaughan Williams's sublime Mass in G minor reveals the composer's absorbing interest in using the modal harmonic language and contrapuntal textures of the English late Renaissance to achieve a huge emotional and dynamic range.

Undoubtedly the most technically demanding work on this disc is A Vision of Aeroplanes, a virtuosic motet for mixed chorus and organ.

Several neglected works also feature here, including The Voice out of the Whirlwind, an anthem for mixed chorus and orchestra or organ, and Valiant-for-truth, one of several works based on Bunyan's Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.

Tracklisting:

The Voice out of the Whirlwind; (Motet for Chorus and Orchestra)

Valiant for Truth

Mass in G minor

Three Choral Hymns

Nothing is here for tears

A vision of aeroplanes

James McVinnie (organ)

The Souls of the Righteous

A Choral Flourish (Exultate justi)

Re-order code: CD183788