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Release Date: Saturday 1 May 1999
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"Choose Hickox, for his more palpable sense of physical and spiritual elation, and for the beauty and intensity of Gritton's contribution"
(Gramophone)
Richard Hickox is one of Britain's leading conductors, recipient of the 1995 Philharmonic Society Music Award, three Gramophone Awards, the Diapason d'Or, the Deutsche Schalplattenpreis and a Grammy (for Britten's Peter Grimes). He is founder and Music Director of the City of London Sinfonia and (with Simon Standage) of Collegium Musicum 90, Associate Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Emeritus of the Northern Sinfonia.
Operatic engagements have included Los Angeles Opera, Rome Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, Opera North and English National Opera. He has guest conducted in Washington, San Francisco, Dallas, Tokyo (New Japan Philharmonic), and the radio orchestras of Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Paris (Orchestre philharmonique), the Berlin Symphony, Residentie Orchestra The Hague, and the Camerata Academica Salzburg at the Vienna Easter Festival.
Richard Hickox records exclusively for Chandos, for whom he celebrated his one hundredth recording in 1997. Future plans include works by Grainger, Rubbra, Bruch, Vaughan Williams, Haydn, Delius and Schmidt.
'Nelsonmesse' (Hob. XXII:11) 38:44
in D minor - d-Moll - ré mineur
1 I Kyrie 4:26
2 II Gloria: 'Gloria in excelsis Deo' - 3:24
3 'Qui tollis peccata mundi' - 4:29
4 'Quoniam tu solus sanctus' 2:44
5 III Credo: 'Credo in unum Deum' - 2:44
6 'Et incarnatus est' - 1:36
7 'Et resurrexit' 4:12
8 IV Sanctus 2:30
9 V Benedictus 5:59
10 VI Agnus Dei: 'Agnus Dei' - 3:00
11 'Dona nobis pacem' 2:33
12 Ave Regina (Hob. XXIIIb:3) 11:46
in E major - E-Dur - mi majeur
Missa brevis (Hob. XXII:1) 12:27
in F major - F-Dur - fa majeur
13 I Kyrie 1:15
14 II Gloria 1:37
15 III Credo 2:42
16 IV Sanctus 1:03
17 V Benedictus 3:11
18 VI Agnus Dei 2:40