Howells: Requiem; Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
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- Release Date: 11/30/1999
- Sales Rank: 154,170
- Label: NAXOS
- UPC: 636943465929
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Howells: Requiem; Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
| 1 | Magnificat and Nunc Dimit / Herbert Howells |
| 2 | Magnificat and Nunc Dimit / Herbert Howells |
| 3 | Like As the Hart Desireth / Herbert Howells |
| 4 | Paean for organ / Herbert Howells |
| 5 | Requiem, for soprano, 2 t / Herbert Howells |
| 6 | Requiem, for soprano, 2 t / Herbert Howells |
| 7 | Requiem, for soprano, 2 t / Herbert Howells |
| 8 | Requiem, for soprano, 2 t / Herbert Howells |
| 9 | Requiem, for soprano, 2 t / Herbert Howells |
| 10 | Requiem, for soprano, 2 t / Herbert Howells |
| 11 | Long, Long Ago, for choru / Herbert Howells |
| 12 | The Office of the Holy Co / Herbert Howells |
| 13 | The Office of the Holy Co / Herbert Howells |
| 14 | The Office of the Holy Co / Herbert Howells |
| 15 | The Office of the Holy Co / Herbert Howells |
| 16 | The Office of the Holy Co / Herbert Howells |
| 17 | The Office of the Holy Co / Herbert Howells |
| 18 | Rhapsodies (3) for organ, / Herbert Howells |
| 19 | Take Him, Earth, for Cher / Herbert Howells |
Editorial Reviews
Although his music is far less familiar than that of his friends Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells was responsible for some of the most deeply moving sacred music composed in this century. The first volume of a new and much-needed budget series of Howells's choral music has been issued by Naxos, offering even the most wary buyer a virtually risk-free entrée into the composer's lovely, often noble world. The principal work on the album is the moving and gravely beautiful Requiem (long thought to have been written in response to the death of his nine-year-old son in 1936, but was in fact completed in 1933). Much of the musical material from the Requiem would be used again in Howells's masterpiece, the "Hymnus Paradisi" -- superbly performed by the BBC Symphony and Chorus under Richard Hickox on Chandos -- the piece that actually was dedicated to Howells's son. Both the Requiem and the shorter works on the program are sung to rapt perfection by the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, and the recorded sound has an appealing resonance and bloom. Jim Svejda, Barnes & Noble
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