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This release is likely to get a good deal of publicity due to its status as the final release of Stephen Cleobury as director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. However, as president of the Herbert Howells Society, he may not be through with performing the music of this composer just yet. Cleobury deserves kudos for this rather challenging double album; he might easily have compiled a set of favorites of some kind, and enjoyed general acclaim. Instead, he has chosen to go out with a piece of work that makes a deeper connection with tradition. Even though he did not succeed Howells as an organist at Cambridge, he certainly lived and breathed his music, and is as fine an interpreter of it as anyone alive. So, this music is a little Howells survey as well as a Cleobury valedictory, and it succeeds notably on both counts. In addition to choral music, and a set of organ pieces brilliantly realized by Cleobury, there's the lyrical Cello Concerto, performed by Guy Johnston on cello, with the Britten Sinfonia under Christopher Seaman. It's a fine, somehow intimate reading. For Cleobury in his element, sample around on CD 1: the English Mass of 1956, which represented an intentional simplification of Howells' dense, ornate style, is ideally suited to Cleobury and his boys-and-men choristers, but perhaps the highlight of the whole is the limpid Magnificat, a gloriously lyrical, unique response to that text. A fine bookend to Cleobury's Cambridge career.
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Stephen Cleobury, Conductor, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choir, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - King's Voices, Choir, MainArtist - Henry Websdale, Organ, MainArtist
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
An English Mass (Herbert Howells)
Stephen Cleobury, Conductor, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choir, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Henry Websdale, Organ, MainArtist
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Herbert Howells, Composer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choir, MainArtist - Ben Parry, Conductor, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, Conductor, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choir, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, Conductor, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choir, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Henry Websdale, Organ, MainArtist
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, Conductor, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choir, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Henry Websdale, Organ, MainArtist
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, Conductor, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choir, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Henry Websdale, Organ, MainArtist
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, Conductor, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choir, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Donal McCann, Organ, MainArtist
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, Conductor, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Choir, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - King's Voices, Choir, MainArtist - Donal McCann, Organ, MainArtist
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
DISC 2
Cello Concerto (Herbert Howells)
Guy Johnston, Cello, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Christopher Seaman, Conductor, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Guy Johnston, Cello, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Christopher Seaman, Conductor, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Guy Johnston, Cello, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer - Christopher Seaman, Conductor, MainArtist - Britten Sinfonia, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, Organ, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, Organ, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury, Organ, MainArtist - Herbert Howells, Composer
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
Album review
This release is likely to get a good deal of publicity due to its status as the final release of Stephen Cleobury as director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. However, as president of the Herbert Howells Society, he may not be through with performing the music of this composer just yet. Cleobury deserves kudos for this rather challenging double album; he might easily have compiled a set of favorites of some kind, and enjoyed general acclaim. Instead, he has chosen to go out with a piece of work that makes a deeper connection with tradition. Even though he did not succeed Howells as an organist at Cambridge, he certainly lived and breathed his music, and is as fine an interpreter of it as anyone alive. So, this music is a little Howells survey as well as a Cleobury valedictory, and it succeeds notably on both counts. In addition to choral music, and a set of organ pieces brilliantly realized by Cleobury, there's the lyrical Cello Concerto, performed by Guy Johnston on cello, with the Britten Sinfonia under Christopher Seaman. It's a fine, somehow intimate reading. For Cleobury in his element, sample around on CD 1: the English Mass of 1956, which represented an intentional simplification of Howells' dense, ornate style, is ideally suited to Cleobury and his boys-and-men choristers, but perhaps the highlight of the whole is the limpid Magnificat, a gloriously lyrical, unique response to that text. A fine bookend to Cleobury's Cambridge career.
© TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:43:29
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Choir of King's College, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury Guy Johnston
- Composer: Herbert Howells
- Label: Kings College Cambridge
- Genre: Classical Sacred Vocal Music Masses, Passions, Requiems
2019 King's College, Cambridge 2019 King's College, Cambridge
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