Matthias Bamert, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Hubert Parry: Invocation to Music (1992)
Matthias Bamert, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Hubert Parry: Invocation to Music (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 55:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9025 | Recorded: 1991
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 269 Mb | Total time: 55:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9025 | Recorded: 1991
Chandos's brave and important Parry series, conducted with sterling musicianship and remarkable insights by Matthias Bamert, adds another choral disc to the four out of the five symphonies so far issued. Recently The Soul's Ransom and The Lotos Eaters were released (1/92) and now comes the large-scale, nearly hour-long cantata Invocation to Music, a ten-movement setting of a poem by Parry's friend Robert Bridges and composed ''in honour of Henry Purcell'' for the bicentenary, in 1895, of his death. The first performance was at the Leeds Festival that year. How many have there been since then?
In his notes with the disc, Bernard Benoliel makes high claims for this work as a major influence on Elgar (Gerontius) and Vaughan Williams (A Sea Symphony). Certainly one can detect pre-echoes of both and the work is remarkable for its fluency, sensitive treatment of the words and the melodic grandeur familiar from Blest Pair of Sirens. Its finest episodes are the central ''Dirge'' (sung by Brian Rayner Cook a little insecurely) which is a memorial to Parry's brother-in-law, who died at 45 while this work was being written, and the subsequent chorus ''Man, born of desire'' (which Holst also set in his Choral Fantasia). Elsewhere there are some uneven and four-square passages which prevent one's subscribing to a view of this work that would equate it with the successors Benoliel names. But at its finest, it reaches heights of eloquence that cannot have been lost on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls.
The performance, like the recording, is excellent, with clear diction from the London Philharmonic Choir. Arthur Davies sings the tenor solo ''Thee, fair poetry'' with lyrical grace, while in the two big soprano solos, the mantle of Elizabeth Harwood seems to have fallen on Anne Dawson, so sweet and rich is her tone and so sensitive her enunciation of the text.–Gramophone
Performer:
Anne Dawson, soprano
Arthur Davies, tenor
Brian Rayner Cook, baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor
Tracklist:
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
Invocation to Music
An Ode (in Honour of Henry Purcell) by Robert Bridges
01. Introduction - Chorus: 'Myriad voicèd Queen!' - Soprano Solo & Chorus: 'Turn, O return!'
02. Tenor Solo: 'Thee, fair Poetry oft hath sought'
03. Chorus; 'The Monstrous Sea'
04. Soprano & Tenor Duet: 'Love to Love calleth'
05. Dirge - Bass Solo: 'To me, to me, fair-hearted Goddess, come!'
06. Chorus: 'Man, born of desire' - Soprano Solo & Chorus: 'Rejoice ye dead, where'er your spirits dwell'
07. Soprano, Tenor & Bass Trio: 'O enter with me the gates of delight'
08. Chorus: 'Thou, O Queen of sinless grace'
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