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FRANCIS GRIER :
lit by holy fire: a celebration of Vespers
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli)
Sunday 15 June, 2014
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, England
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, cond. Stephen Cleobury
Cathedral Music, 2011 (CM1096)
Texts: Poems by Elizabeth Cook, Antiphons from Cloverdale's translation of the Psalms
“The music is set for unaccompanied choir. The scoring and musical atmosphere follows the emotional sequence of the poems, leading essentially from darkness to light, from music often of brooding intensity and simplicity towards more complex and more animated forms and tonal pictures. The full resources of the choir are utilised, from unison and homophony to fully contrapuntal configurations. Solo voices from all the different sections of the choir sing in contrast to the tutti; the dynamic range is extreme; and the tessitura in all parts ranges from the lowest to the highest vocal ranges. The musical style overall is intended to show some indebtedness to Rachmaninov’s soaring setting.”
– Francis Grier & Elizabeth Cook
FRANCIS GRIER :
lit by holy fire: a celebration of Vespers
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli)
Sunday 15 June, 2014
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, England
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, cond. Stephen Cleobury
Cathedral Music, 2011 (CM1096)
Texts: Poems by Elizabeth Cook, Antiphons from Cloverdale's translation of the Psalms
“The music is set for unaccompanied choir. The scoring and musical atmosphere follows the emotional sequence of the poems, leading essentially from darkness to light, from music often of brooding intensity and simplicity towards more complex and more animated forms and tonal pictures. The full resources of the choir are utilised, from unison and homophony to fully contrapuntal configurations. Solo voices from all the different sections of the choir sing in contrast to the tutti; the dynamic range is extreme; and the tessitura in all parts ranges from the lowest to the highest vocal ranges. The musical style overall is intended to show some indebtedness to Rachmaninov’s soaring setting.”
– Francis Grier & Elizabeth Cook