Parry: The Soul's Ransom / The Lotos-Eaters / Blest pair of Sirens / Invocation to Music

Chandos has been a major player in the long overdue rehabilitation of Parry's music. Here his most important large scale choral works are available as a 2-CD set for the first time at the price of one full price disc.

The only available set of these large scale choral works combined with two of Parry's most shorter popular works.

It features outstanding soloists supported by both the LPO under Bamert and the LSO under Hickox.

It comes complete with a booklet containing comprehensive notes and full texts

Parry's two finest and most popular anthems, Blest Pair of Sirens and I was glad, make an attractive coupling to his famous choral works. The 45-minute work The Soul's Ransom, with its sequence of solos and choruses, forms a broadly symphonic four-movement structure and The Lotos eaters; a setting for soprano, chorus and orchestra is performed by Della Jones, a characterful soloist. This is a full and atmospheric recording to match the incandescent performances.

On its original release these works received 3 stars in the Penguin Guide, and consequently make a welcome return to the Chandos catalogue.

Reviews:
''The choral singing and the playing of the LPO under Matthias Bamert is magnificent, ably championing these deserved revivals.''
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