Hymns To Saint Cecilia. Royal Holloway Choir/gough
) | Label: Hyperion Catalog: CDA 68047 Format: CD Felicity Lott (soprano), Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert GoughComposed by: Hymns to Saint Cecilia - Music of Bennett, Bliss, Britten, Dyson, Elgar, Gardner, Howells, Jackson, Macmillan, Rose and Vaughan Williams This collection from the Choir of Royal Holloway focuses on twentiethand twenty-first century works inspired by Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Britten's 1942 Hymn to Saint Cecilia rekindled musicians' interest in writing works in her honor. After the war, the Musicians Benevolent Fund established an annual service of celebration, and has marked the occasion with a new commission almost every year. Many of the pieces on this recording are the result of those commissions. Also included is a new work by Gabriel Jackson featuring Dame Felicity Lott. |