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The centerpiece here is the first complete recording of the Communion Service in G minor – the 1923 English translation and revision of the Latin Mass in G minor which had been published just a year earlier. In keeping with the 1662 Anglican communion service then in use, the Gloria comes at the end; the service begins with sung responses to the ten commandments, read for us here by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Five movements require a quartet as well as a double chorus.
William Vann has confidence in every member of his Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, so each of those movements has a different quartet, thus giving individual voice to 20 of the choristers. It is surprising that By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame, an early Walt Whitman setting, has lain neglected in manuscript for so long. This lovely setting for unaccompanied chorus started life as a "Ballade for Quintet" in 1904 and was revised as a "Nocturne", still for quintet, in 1906.
The choral version must have come soon afterwards, thus representing the next stage in the experiment. Valiant-for-Truth is a popular work, but few of the standard reference books on RVW have very much to say about it. Even Michael Kennedy does little more than tell us that it was written in November 1940. That date – when the war news was bleak – is the key to the selection of the text. It has nothing to do with the (then unfinished) opera Pilgrim’s Progress – it’s drawn from altogether the wrong part of the novel – but Mr Valiant-for-Truth had fought three "rogues", emerging scarred but victorious; he passed through the River to his reward, "and the trumpets all sounded for him on the other side". © Albion Records
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Book of Common Prayer, Lyricist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - William Walsham How, Lyricist - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Bible, Lyricist - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Percy Dearmer, Lyricist - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Communion Service in G Minor (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Book of Common Prayer, Lyricist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist - Rowan Williams, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Simon Wall, MainArtist - Book of Common Prayer, Lyricist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist - Leah Jackson, MainArtist - Adrian Horsewood, MainArtist - Charlie Morris, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Book of Common Prayer, Lyricist - Eloise Irving, MainArtist - Ciara Hendrick, MainArtist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist - Joseph Doody, MainArtist - James Arthurt, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Book of Common Prayer, Lyricist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Helen Ashby, MainArtist - Book of Common Prayer, Lyricist - Clara Kanter, MainArtist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist - Nicholas Ashby, MainArtist - Jonny Beatty, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Katy Hill, MainArtist - Book of Common Prayer, Lyricist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist - Nathan Harrison, MainArtist - Tom Castle, MainArtist - Emma Ashby, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Book of Common Prayer, Lyricist - Angus McPhee, MainArtist - Jenni Harper, MainArtist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist - Jonathan Hanley, MainArtist - Rosemary Clifford, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Horatius Bonar, Lyricist - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Bible, Lyricist - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist - Leah Jackson, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Gerard Moultrie, Lyricist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - John Skelton, Lyricist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist - G K Chesterton, Lyricist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - George Herbert, Lyricist - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Joshua Ryan, MainArtist - Bianco da Siena, Lyricist - Richard Frederick Littledale, Translator - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - John Bunyan, Lyricist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Nocturne (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Walt Whitman, Lyricist - Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, MainArtist - William Vann, MainArtist
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Album review
The centerpiece here is the first complete recording of the Communion Service in G minor – the 1923 English translation and revision of the Latin Mass in G minor which had been published just a year earlier. In keeping with the 1662 Anglican communion service then in use, the Gloria comes at the end; the service begins with sung responses to the ten commandments, read for us here by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. Five movements require a quartet as well as a double chorus.
William Vann has confidence in every member of his Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, so each of those movements has a different quartet, thus giving individual voice to 20 of the choristers. It is surprising that By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame, an early Walt Whitman setting, has lain neglected in manuscript for so long. This lovely setting for unaccompanied chorus started life as a "Ballade for Quintet" in 1904 and was revised as a "Nocturne", still for quintet, in 1906.
The choral version must have come soon afterwards, thus representing the next stage in the experiment. Valiant-for-Truth is a popular work, but few of the standard reference books on RVW have very much to say about it. Even Michael Kennedy does little more than tell us that it was written in November 1940. That date – when the war news was bleak – is the key to the selection of the text. It has nothing to do with the (then unfinished) opera Pilgrim’s Progress – it’s drawn from altogether the wrong part of the novel – but Mr Valiant-for-Truth had fought three "rogues", emerging scarred but victorious; he passed through the River to his reward, "and the trumpets all sounded for him on the other side". © Albion Records
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:55
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea William Vann Joshua Ryan
- Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Label: Albion
- Genre: Classical Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) Choral Music (Choirs)
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