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An online listing stating only "Deo. Harvey. Nethsingha." might not give the potential listener much to go on. What you have here is a collection of settings of standard sacred texts by composer Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012), with the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge (men and boys, as young as ten), conducted by Andrew Nethsingha. The performance is unimpeachable; both Harvey and Nethsingha had ties to this ensemble, which is strikingly clean in what is really quite difficult choral material. It may come as a surprise to learn that Harvey, with an essentially conservative British choral language, was invited by none other than Pierre Boulez to join the IRCAM community in France, but after hearing these pieces and reading Nethsingha's informative notes, you'll get an idea of why this happened. Harvey's basic harmonic language and melodic shapes are conventional, but the way he develops them is not. His structures include numerological and other symbolic devices, and pieces often deepen into angular, difficult writing as they proceed. The result is a set of pieces that's accessible, yet offers much to study; that's rigorous, yet responds to texts in a personal way. Some pieces are a cappella, others have an organ. The choral work, from the 1970s and 1980s, is uniformly strong, but perhaps sample the riveting Toccata for organ and tape (track four) for a taste of Harvey's ability to bridge traditional and contemporary idioms, and for the ringing tones of the St. John's organ, always a pleasure. Recommended.
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Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - Edward Picton-Turbervill, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - Edward Picton-Turbervill, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Edward Picton-Turbervill, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - Edward Picton-Turbervill, MainArtist - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Edward Picton-Turbervill, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
Jonathan Harvey, Composer - Andrew Nethsingha, Conductor - The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, MainArtist
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
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An online listing stating only "Deo. Harvey. Nethsingha." might not give the potential listener much to go on. What you have here is a collection of settings of standard sacred texts by composer Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012), with the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge (men and boys, as young as ten), conducted by Andrew Nethsingha. The performance is unimpeachable; both Harvey and Nethsingha had ties to this ensemble, which is strikingly clean in what is really quite difficult choral material. It may come as a surprise to learn that Harvey, with an essentially conservative British choral language, was invited by none other than Pierre Boulez to join the IRCAM community in France, but after hearing these pieces and reading Nethsingha's informative notes, you'll get an idea of why this happened. Harvey's basic harmonic language and melodic shapes are conventional, but the way he develops them is not. His structures include numerological and other symbolic devices, and pieces often deepen into angular, difficult writing as they proceed. The result is a set of pieces that's accessible, yet offers much to study; that's rigorous, yet responds to texts in a personal way. Some pieces are a cappella, others have an organ. The choral work, from the 1970s and 1980s, is uniformly strong, but perhaps sample the riveting Toccata for organ and tape (track four) for a taste of Harvey's ability to bridge traditional and contemporary idioms, and for the ringing tones of the St. John's organ, always a pleasure. Recommended.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 01:00:15
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge Andrew Nethsingha Edward Picton-Turbervill
- Composer: Jonathan Harvey
- Label: Signum Records
- Genre: Klassiek
(C) 2016 Signum Records (P) 2016 Signum Records
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