Howells. Choral Music. Wells Cathedral Choir/arche

Wells Cathedral Choir, Malcolm Archer, Rupert Gough (organ)

Howells: Sequence for St. Michael, Hymn for St. Cecilia, St. George’s Windsor Service, New College Service, Three Carol-Anthems, Collegium Regale - Choral Music

Recorded as Malcolm Archer's farewell to Wells Cathedral prior to his prestigious appointment to St. Paul's in London, this generously filled album presents some of Howells's best choral works, some well known, others less so. His settings of the Canticles set the benchmark for twentieth-century liturgical composition and led to the composer being besieged by commission requests from cathedrals and collegiate chapels. This program includes the Morning Canticles written for St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle and the Evening Canticles, which constitute the 'New College Service.' Several of the other pieces included here are less famous, but all display their composer's inimitable mastery of form and choral technique.

Price: $13.98