Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212055724
Catalog number: SIGCD 557
Releasedate: 05-10-18
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212055724
Releasedate: 05-10-18
- Shining a light on a lesser known composer Ivor Gurney, whose promising career was interrupted by World War I
- Performed by Tenebre one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles renowned for its passion and precision
- Features a new piece by Judith Bingham commissioned by Tenebrae in 2013 for the choir with Dame Sarah Connolly.
- Narration by actor Simon Callow, CBE
- Performed by Tenebre one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles renowned for its passion and precision
- Features a new piece by Judith Bingham commissioned by Tenebrae in 2013 for the choir with Dame Sarah Connolly.
- Narration by actor Simon Callow, CBE
Tenebrae join the Aurora Orchestra with mezzo soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and narrator Simon Callow for ‘A Walk with Ivor Gurney’, an album of choral music celebrating the works of Ivor Gurney. Alongside four pieces of Gurney’s own music are works by his contemporaries, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Herbert Howells.
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1Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis14:16
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1In Flanders(arr. Herbert Howells)03:15
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2Like as the Hart07:09
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2Sleep(arr. Gerald Finzi)03:32
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3Since I Believe in God the Father Almighty05:49
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3An Oxford Elegy22:51
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4A Walk With Ivor Gurney12:15
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4Valiant for Truth05:24
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5By a Bierside(arr. Herbert Howells)04:28
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5Lord thou hast been our refuge08:18