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The first recordings of choral masterpieces by Britten, performed by the dedicatees and newly reissued in a unique compilation.
At Christmas in 1958, Benjamin Britten went to hear the boys of the Westminster Cathedral Choir sing his Ceremony of Carols conducted by George Malcolm. He was so impressed by their voices that he wanted to write something for them. Malcolm suggested a short Mass for boys’ voices. The result is the Missa Brevis, composed, performed and recorded by Decca on the occasion of Malcolm’s retirement as organist and choirmaster in July 1959.
During the previous decade, Malcolm had reformed the choir following a heritage of excellence established by his predecessor, Sir Richard Terry, while expanding the repertory, commissioning modern works from composers such as Britten and moulding the choral sound in the Continental style, learnt from his own Catholic training, which places much more emphasis than the Anglican tradition on chest voice. . He created a natural and throaty Continental sound – the sound boys make in the playground, as he put it – that suited the great Catholic polyphony choir, much emulated by other English choirs in succeeding generations.
Eighteen months earlier, Malcolm had also played the organ for the composer’s own recording of Rejoice in the Lamb, which sets portions of a poem by Christopher Smart extolling the praise of God in terms as touching and quirky as the text. In 1961 he took charge of the first performance at the Royal Festival Hall of the Cantata Academica, another celebratory work written to honour the quincentenary of Basle University, and made this recording for L’Oiseau-Lyre soon afterwards. Here too is a geniality and variety of colour and a wealth of melodic invention, in no way compromised by the use of a twelve-note serial theme.
Side B of the L’Oiseau-Lyre album reinforced Britten’s remarkable skill as a writer for unaccompanied chorus, with the Hymns to the Virgin and to St Cecilia, smaller-scale works but even more perfect in their way, and then the more recent Choral Dances in Elizabethan style from his Coronation opera Gloriana; Britten shared with Stravinsky an ability to recreate the past in terms of the present without any sense of pastiche or loss of individuality. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
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Cantata Academica, Op. 62 (Benjamin Britten)
London Symphony Chorus - London Symphony Orchestra - George Malcolm, Conductor - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Traditional, Original Text Author - Bernhard Wyss, Author - Michael Bremner, Recording Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Helen Watts, Contralto - Jennifer Vyvyan, Soprano - Sir Peter Pears, Tenor - Owen Brannigan, Bass - London Symphony Chorus - London Symphony Orchestra - George Malcolm, Conductor - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Bernhard Wyss, Author - Michael Bremner, Recording Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Traditional, Author, Original Text Author - Benjamin Britten, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Pears, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - Jennifer Vyvyan, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Brannigan, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bernhard Wyss, Author
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Traditional, Author, Original Text Author - Benjamin Britten, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bernhard Wyss, Author
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Traditional, Author, Original Text Author - Benjamin Britten, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Pears, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - Jennifer Vyvyan, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Brannigan, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bernhard Wyss, Author
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Traditional, Author, Original Text Author - Benjamin Britten, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - Helen Watts, Contralto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Pears, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - Jennifer Vyvyan, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Owen Brannigan, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bernhard Wyss, Author
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Hymn to St. Cecilia, op. 27 (Benjamin Britten)
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Wystan Hugh Auden, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Wystan Hugh Auden, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Wystan Hugh Auden, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Anonymous, Author - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Choral Dances from "Gloriana" (Benjamin Britten)
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer - Michael Bremner, Producer, Recording Producer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1961 Decca Music Group Limited
Missa Brevis, Op. 63 (Benjamin Britten)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Anonymous, Author - Benjamin Britten, Composer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Anonymous, Author - Benjamin Britten, Composer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Anonymous, Author - Benjamin Britten, Composer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Choir, MainArtist - Anonymous, Author - Benjamin Britten, Composer - George Malcolm, Conductor, MainArtist
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Rejoice in the Lamb, op. 30 (Benjamin Britten)
Benjamin Britten, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - James Walker, Producer - George Malcolm, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The Purcell Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Christopher Smart, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Michael Hartnett, Treble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Benjamin Britten, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - James Walker, Producer - George Malcolm, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Smart, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - James Walker, Producer - George Malcolm, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Steele, Alto, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Smart, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - James Walker, Producer - George Malcolm, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Philip Todd, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Smart, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - James Walker, Producer - George Malcolm, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The Purcell Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Christopher Smart, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Benjamin Britten, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - James Walker, Producer - George Malcolm, Organ, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The Purcell Singers, Choir, MainArtist - Donald Francke, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Christopher Smart, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gordon Parry, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1957 Decca Music Group Limited
Chronique
The first recordings of choral masterpieces by Britten, performed by the dedicatees and newly reissued in a unique compilation.
At Christmas in 1958, Benjamin Britten went to hear the boys of the Westminster Cathedral Choir sing his Ceremony of Carols conducted by George Malcolm. He was so impressed by their voices that he wanted to write something for them. Malcolm suggested a short Mass for boys’ voices. The result is the Missa Brevis, composed, performed and recorded by Decca on the occasion of Malcolm’s retirement as organist and choirmaster in July 1959.
During the previous decade, Malcolm had reformed the choir following a heritage of excellence established by his predecessor, Sir Richard Terry, while expanding the repertory, commissioning modern works from composers such as Britten and moulding the choral sound in the Continental style, learnt from his own Catholic training, which places much more emphasis than the Anglican tradition on chest voice. . He created a natural and throaty Continental sound – the sound boys make in the playground, as he put it – that suited the great Catholic polyphony choir, much emulated by other English choirs in succeeding generations.
Eighteen months earlier, Malcolm had also played the organ for the composer’s own recording of Rejoice in the Lamb, which sets portions of a poem by Christopher Smart extolling the praise of God in terms as touching and quirky as the text. In 1961 he took charge of the first performance at the Royal Festival Hall of the Cantata Academica, another celebratory work written to honour the quincentenary of Basle University, and made this recording for L’Oiseau-Lyre soon afterwards. Here too is a geniality and variety of colour and a wealth of melodic invention, in no way compromised by the use of a twelve-note serial theme.
Side B of the L’Oiseau-Lyre album reinforced Britten’s remarkable skill as a writer for unaccompanied chorus, with the Hymns to the Virgin and to St Cecilia, smaller-scale works but even more perfect in their way, and then the more recent Choral Dances in Elizabethan style from his Coronation opera Gloriana; Britten shared with Stravinsky an ability to recreate the past in terms of the present without any sense of pastiche or loss of individuality. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
Détails de l'enregistrement original : Kingsway Hall, London, UK, 17 March 1961 (Cantata Academica), 18 May 1961 (Hymn to St. Cecilia, A Hymn to the Virgin, Choral Dances from Gloriana); Westminster Cathedral, London, UK, 22 July 1959 (Missa Brevis – Live Recording); All Souls, Langham Place, London, UK, 2 April & 6 November 1957 (Rejoice in the Lamb)
À propos
- 1 disque(s) - 26 piste(s)
- Durée totale : 01:10:24
- Artistes principaux : George Malcolm
- Compositeur : Benjamin Britten
- Label : Decca
- Origine : Angleterre
- Genre : Classique Musique vocale sacrée
- Période : Musique Moderne
- Collection : Eloquence
© 2019 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. This Compilation ℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited
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