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A breviary is a book of prayers for the canonical hours. This one expands the term to cover the Christmas season, with new carols, not all of them religious, that reflect on scenes and themes of the most wonderful time of the year. All are quite recent, and they're very well chosen by director Andrew Earis, with pieces that are compositionally and/or theologically innovative and are mostly by less-familiar composers. Consider Yshani Perinpanayagam's When God Made Eve, with a text of her own that connects with the presence of the Creation story in Advent services and places Eve in a matriarchal lineage leading to Mary. It fits well with the major premiere that closes out the album, Bob Chilcott's Mary, Mother, termed a "carol suite" by annotator Sarah Maxted. Or hear the Reena Esmail work from which the album takes its title, ingeniously weaving Western melody with Indian ragas across its three movements. As distinguished as the music are the performances by the small St. Martin's Voices group, unaccompanied or with organ or harp. The group marries precision to a strong and expressive sense of the text, and they're backed up well by Resonus Classics (this is the choir's first album for the label), recording in the St.-Jude-on-the-Hill church in London's Hampstead Garden suburb. This album reached classical best-seller charts in the late autumn of 2023, and one leaves it with the feeling that the grand tradition of English choral music has gone on renewing itself beautifully.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Banks Music Publications, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Olivia Sparkhall, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Cecilia McDowall, Composer - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - Reena Esmail, Composer - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Rebecca Gayle Howell, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - Reena Esmail, Composer - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Rebecca Gayle Howell, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - Reena Esmail, Composer - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Rebecca Gayle Howell, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Banks Music Publications, MusicPublisher - Sarah MacDonald, Composer - Ronald Stuart Thomas, Composer - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Banks Music Publications, MusicPublisher - Sarah MacDonald, Composer - Ronald Stuart Thomas, Composer - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Banks Music Publications, MusicPublisher - Sarah MacDonald, Composer - Ronald Stuart Thomas, Composer - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Sarah MacDonlad, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Rowan Williams, Composer - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Nils Greenhow, Composer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Thomas Hewitt Jones, Composer - Stainer & Bell Ltd, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Polina Sosnina, MainArtist
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Wendy Cope, Composer - Lucy Walker, Composer, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Elinor Wylie, Composer - Lucy Walker, Composer, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Sara Teasdale, Composer - Lucy Walker, Composer, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Yshani Perinpanayagam, Composer, MusicPublisher
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Roderick Williams, Composer - Edition Peters, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Bob Chilcott, Composer - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Polina Sesnina, MainArtist - Elizabeth Bass, MainArtist - Georgia Way, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Bob Chilcott, Composer - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Polina Sosnina, MainArtist - Elizabeth Bass, MainArtist - Georgia Way, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Bob Chilcott, Composer - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Elizabeth Bass, MainArtist - Georgia Way, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Bob Chilcott, Composer - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Polina Sosnina, MainArtist - Elizabeth Bass, MainArtist - Georgia Way, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Bob Chilcott, Composer - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor - Elizabeth Bass, MainArtist - Georgia Way, Composer, MainArtist
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Bob Chilcott, Composer - Oxford University Press, MusicPublisher - St Martin's Voices, Ensemble, MainArtist - Andrew Earis, Conductor, MainArtist - Georgia Way, Composer
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
Album review
A breviary is a book of prayers for the canonical hours. This one expands the term to cover the Christmas season, with new carols, not all of them religious, that reflect on scenes and themes of the most wonderful time of the year. All are quite recent, and they're very well chosen by director Andrew Earis, with pieces that are compositionally and/or theologically innovative and are mostly by less-familiar composers. Consider Yshani Perinpanayagam's When God Made Eve, with a text of her own that connects with the presence of the Creation story in Advent services and places Eve in a matriarchal lineage leading to Mary. It fits well with the major premiere that closes out the album, Bob Chilcott's Mary, Mother, termed a "carol suite" by annotator Sarah Maxted. Or hear the Reena Esmail work from which the album takes its title, ingeniously weaving Western melody with Indian ragas across its three movements. As distinguished as the music are the performances by the small St. Martin's Voices group, unaccompanied or with organ or harp. The group marries precision to a strong and expressive sense of the text, and they're backed up well by Resonus Classics (this is the choir's first album for the label), recording in the St.-Jude-on-the-Hill church in London's Hampstead Garden suburb. This album reached classical best-seller charts in the late autumn of 2023, and one leaves it with the feeling that the grand tradition of English choral music has gone on renewing itself beautifully.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 21 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:58
- Main artists: St Martin's Voices Andrew Earis
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Resonus Classics
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2023 Resonus Limited (P) 2023 Resonus Limited
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