A Meditation
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JAMES MacMILLAN / WILL TODD / ANNA SEMPLE / EOGHAN DESMOND / LISA ROBERTSON / EDWARD ELGAR
A Meditation
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
[ Coro / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 3 June 2022
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The five new choral works on this album - by James MacMillan, Will Todd, Anna Semple, Eoghan Desmond and Lisa Robertson - all grew from a meditation by St John Henry Newman. Newman was a theologian of towering stature and broad influence. Canonised in October 2019, Newman's writings represent a rich and thought-provoking legacy and, alongside the new works presented, are immortalised in three well-known hymns and Sir Edward Elgar's exquisite elegy 'They are at rest'. Also included are two of Elgar's psalm settings - 'Great is the Lord' and 'Give unto the Lord'. These are monumental works for choir and organ, full of grandeur and drama, but also inherently simple. The album ends with a Bonus track by Bob Chilcott - also a Genesis Foundation commission - based on Psalm 139.
Tracks:
Will Todd, St John Henry Newman, Ben Dunwell: I Shall be an Angel of Peace
William Henry Harris, St John Henry Newman: Lead, Kindly Light
Anna Semple, St John Henry Newman, Robert Willis: A Meditation
Richard Runciman Terry, St John Henry Newman: Praise to the Holiest in the Height
Elgar: Great is the Lord, Op. 67
Lisa Robertson, St John Henry Newman, Robert Willis: ...a link in a chain...
Edward Elgar, St John Henry Newman: They are at Rest (Elegy)
William Boyce, St John Henry Newman: Firmly I Believe and Truly
Elgar: Give unto the Lord (Psalm XXIX), Op. 74
Eoghan Desmond, St John Henry Newman, Robert Willis: Nothing in Vain
James MacMillan, St John Henry Newman, Robert Willis: Nothing in Vain
Chilcott: O Lord, Thou Hast Searched me, and Known me
