[ Naxos English Choral Music / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 8 March 2002
GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2002 - Choral
"Walton's choral sensibilities were fixed in childhood, as a boy treble at Christ Church, Oxford, where the sound is relatively dry and favours crisp, astringent writing of a kind where you expect to hear the words. You hear everything in these accounts of Walton's Chichester Service, including the mischief that stalks the score. They come with a sleek performance of the composer's wedding anthem Set me as a seal upon thine heart" Gramophone
"The pieces stretch over the widest span of Walton's career, from the setting of Phineas Fletcher in A Litany, the amazing inspiration of a 14 year-old but, anticipating the mature Walton, to Antiphon, one of his last works, a stirring setting of George Herbert's hymn. Let All the World in Every Corner Sing." Penguin Guide key Recording
Coronation Te Deum
A Litany: Drop, drop slow tears
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Where does the uttered music go?
Jubilate Deo
Henry V: Touch her soft lips and part
Cantico del Sole
Henry V: Passacaglia "Death of Falstaff"
The Twelve
Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Antiphon
Missa Brevis