New from The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Voices of Thunder - Works for Choir & Organ
Album Description
Voices of Thunder features a range of spectacular choral pieces that showcase Magdalen College Chapel’s new Eule organ.
Following on from Peace I leave with you, this new album combines the sublime voices of The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, with the new and exciting sonorities of the Eule organ. The recording includes music from Joseph Haydn to Judith Weir, as well as Arvo Pärt’s atmospheric Beatitudes, Libby Larsen’s playful I will sing and raise a psalm, and Hubert Parry’s thunderous Blest Pair of Sirens.
The Eule organ was built by Herman Eule Orgelbau of Bautzen in Germany and is the first Eule organ of its kind to have been built in the UK for almost 100 years.
Artists
The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Romain Bornes, Edward Byrne & Alexander Pott organ
Mark Williams
Track Listing
James MACMILLAN (b.1959)
1. A New Song
Johnathan DOVE (b.1959)
2. Seek him that maketh the seven stars
Dobrinka TABAKOVA (b.1980)
3. Praise
Henry BALFOUR GARDINER (1877-1950)
4. Evening Hymn
Franz Joseph HAYDN (11732-1809)
5. Insanae et vanae curae
Malcolm BOYLE (c1902-76)
6. Thou, O God, art praised
Libby LARSEN (b.1950)
7. I will sing and raise a psalm
Charles Villiers STANFORD (1852-1924)
8. For lo, I raise up
Marcel DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
9. Laudate Dominum
Arvo PÄRT (b.1935)
10. The Beatitudes
Judith WEIR (b.1954)
11. Like to the falling of a star
Charles Hubert Hastings PARRY (1848-1918)
12. Blest Pair of Sirens
Total running time: 77.27
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