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Stephen Hough has built a legion of fans from his varied activities as a polymath. He is known internationally as a pianist, with a catalog of more than 60 recordings and having performed around the world. However, Hough is also an award-winning poet, a painter, a columnist, an educator, and a composer, and it is in that last role that he is featured here. Among his many followers is conductor Michael Waldron, who enthusiastically took up this project with Orchid Classics' Matthew Trusler. Waldron and his London Choral Sinfonia (with organist James Orford) offer a diverse program of music for the choral world, with a cappella works, arrangements on familiar tunes, a mass (which lends the album its title), a Sonatina for Organ, and other works accompanied by organ. For many, this will be an important introduction to Hough's compositions, and there are many highlights; among them is the wonderful sound from St. John the Evangelist, Islington, London. The London Choral Sinfonia fills the space, and the text is clear throughout, which is crucial in the Londinium Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, where Hough inventively uses Latin and English texts simultaneously. The story around the creation and naming of his Missa Mirabilis ("Miraculous") involves writing three mass movements in three days, followed by a major car accident, and finally writing the Agnus Dei movement while in hospital. The harmonic and rhythmic devices and textual phrasing of this Ordinary Mass stand out as distinct; consider the Credo movement and the organ's role alongside the relationship between the divided men's and women's choirs. The concluding arrangement of Danny Boy is going to leave listeners (and this reviewer) humming the tune. Hough is able to add his harmonic stamp without losing its melodic identity.
© Keith Finke /TiVo
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Traditional, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Traditional, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Traditional, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Traditional, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Traditional, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Traditional, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Stephen Hough, Composer - George Ratcliffe Woodward, Lyricist - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Stephen Hough, Composer - Rowan Williams, Lyricist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Stephen Hough, Composer - Charles Wesley, Lyricist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Stephen Hough, Composer - Joseph Mohr, Lyricist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Stephen Hough, Composer - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist - Minnie Louise Haskins, Lyricist
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Traditional, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Traditional, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Traditional, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist - ADORO TE DEVOTE, Lyricist
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Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist
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Stephen Hough, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist
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Fred Weatherly, Lyricist - Stephen Hough, Arranger - Anonymous, Composer - James Orford, MainArtist - London Choral Sinfonia, MainArtist - Michael Waldron, MainArtist
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Albumbeschreibung
Stephen Hough has built a legion of fans from his varied activities as a polymath. He is known internationally as a pianist, with a catalog of more than 60 recordings and having performed around the world. However, Hough is also an award-winning poet, a painter, a columnist, an educator, and a composer, and it is in that last role that he is featured here. Among his many followers is conductor Michael Waldron, who enthusiastically took up this project with Orchid Classics' Matthew Trusler. Waldron and his London Choral Sinfonia (with organist James Orford) offer a diverse program of music for the choral world, with a cappella works, arrangements on familiar tunes, a mass (which lends the album its title), a Sonatina for Organ, and other works accompanied by organ. For many, this will be an important introduction to Hough's compositions, and there are many highlights; among them is the wonderful sound from St. John the Evangelist, Islington, London. The London Choral Sinfonia fills the space, and the text is clear throughout, which is crucial in the Londinium Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, where Hough inventively uses Latin and English texts simultaneously. The story around the creation and naming of his Missa Mirabilis ("Miraculous") involves writing three mass movements in three days, followed by a major car accident, and finally writing the Agnus Dei movement while in hospital. The harmonic and rhythmic devices and textual phrasing of this Ordinary Mass stand out as distinct; consider the Credo movement and the organ's role alongside the relationship between the divided men's and women's choirs. The concluding arrangement of Danny Boy is going to leave listeners (and this reviewer) humming the tune. Hough is able to add his harmonic stamp without losing its melodic identity.
© Keith Finke /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:15:06
- 2 Digital booklets
- Main artists: London Choral Sinfonia Michael Waldron
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Orchid Classics
- Genre: Klassiek
2023 Orchid Music Ltd 2023 Orchid Music Ltd
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