Britten: Choral Works [Incls 'Hymn to St. Cecilia]

 
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Choral Works [Incls 'Hymn to St. Cecilia]
RIAS Kammerchor, Justin Doyle

[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 25 January 2019

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Britten, a capella. Having dazzled the critics (Choc de Classica, the German Record Critics' Award) some 16 years earlier with its label debut featuring best-loved twentieth-century English a capella works, the members of RIAS Kammerchor revisit one of their favourite composers, Benjamin Britten - this time, under the direction of the choir's new chief conductor, Justin Doyle. A perfect occasion to discover his new reading of the composer's enchanting setting of poems written in honour of the patron saint of musicians by W.H. Auden (he would later rename them "Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day [for Benjamin Britten]"), alongside other choral settings comprising this glorious album entirely devoted to Britain's greatest twentieth-century composer.

"a fine new all-Britten disc from the RIAS Kammerchor under Justin Doyle: idiomatic readings in a quite resonant acoustic...if Britten had composed nothing more than the perfect, touching Hymn to the Virgin he wrote when 16, he would be remembered." The Guardian

"Under the British director Justin Doyle, the impeccably drilled (and accented) Berlin RIAS chamber choir bring to these supremely idiomatic pieces a gratifying array of rich colours" The Sunday Times

Tracks:

1-6 Choral dances from Gloriana
7 Hymn to St. Cecilia
8 A Hymn to the Virgin
9-13 Five Flower Songs
14-20 A.M.D.G. (Ad majorem Dei gloriam)