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View/Download Liner Notes ON EAGLES’ WINGS t Let the People Praise You [4.46] SACRED CHORAL WORKS BY ALEXANDER L’ESTRANGE y An Irish Blessing [3.56] Total timings: [72.03] 1 Magnificat (New College Service) [6.53] 2 Nunc Dimittis (New College Service) [3.49] TENEBRAE Soloist: Nicholas Madden tenor NIGEL SHORT DIRECTOR 3 Lighten our Darkness (Prayers for Peace) [1.39] JAMES SHERLOCK ORGAN / PIANO 4 Let All the World in Every Corner Sing [5.53] www.signumrecords.com 5 The Lord’s Prayer (Prayers for Peace) [1.46] 6 Tune Me, O Lord [6.42] Soloists: Grace Davidson soprano, Emilia Morton soprano Nancy Cole alto, Jeremy Budd tenor “ … One gorgeous piece after another, in pristine, dew-fresh performances by the ever-wonderful 7 On Eagles’ Wings [4.50] Soloists: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange soprano, Katie Trethewey soprano choir Tenebrae. Alexander L’Estrange is a many-sided composer of prodigious gifts, and this is an album I will return to again and again; I recommend it warmly to all lovers of choral music.” 8 Oculi Omnium [2.51] John Rutter 9 My Song is Love Unknown [8.48] Soloists: Katie Trethewey soprano, Martha McLorinan alto Ben Alden tenor, Stephen Kennedy bass “It’s unusual and deeply gratifying to find a voice like Alexander L’Estrange’s. Both approachable and 0 God Be in My Head (Prayers for Peace) [1.59] therefore potentially highly popular and, at the same time, beautifully crafted and full of integrity. q Panis Angelicus [5.20] It’s the music of someone steeped in a great tradition since childhood and of someone who is Soloist: Amy Wood soprano determined to bring new life and creative vigour to what he so loves and understands. w Lute-book Lullaby [4.39] Variety is the spice of life and Alexander has spiced up our lives!” Soloist: Grace Davidson Simon Halsey e Epiphany Carol [5.03] Soloist: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange r Hodie! [3.18] - 3 - COMPOSER’S NOTE indebted to the various choral directors, 3 Lighten our Darkness 5 The Lord’s Prayer educational establishments and cathedral choirs Composed for the christening of my son Toby William Forbes Composed for the christening of my son Harry Watson Forbes I was lucky enough to start my musical career who have commissioned these works over the L’Estrange, 28 January 2007. L’Estrange, 30 November 2008. as a chorister in the choir of New College, past fifteen years. Tenebrae’s world class Oxford, where, under the direction of Dr Edward performances on this album, under the expert I used to love hearing this prayer at Evensong This short, mainly homophonic setting has a little Higginbottom, my love for English choral music guidance of Nigel Short, just blow me away. every night when I was a chorister in Oxford. piquancy and spice in its harmonic language, was fostered. At the same time I discovered Indeed, it must have been heard and enjoyed perhaps influenced by another favourite composer by countless generations at Evensong ever of mine when I was a chorister – Kenneth Leighton. a passion for improvising jazz on the piano Alexander L’Estrange, April 2016 and infamously once got into a fair amount of since the days of Cranmer’s first Book of 6 trouble for humming an added 9th in the final Common Prayer in 1549. What a privilege for me Tune Me, O Lord 1 2 to be able to set it to music, and to sing it at Commissioned by John Bowley for Repton School to commemorate chord of A Spotless Rose by Herbert Howells. - New College Service the 150th anniversary of the school chapel, June 2009. Whilst not being particularly proud of this Commissioned by Dr Edward Higginbottom for the choir of New our first son’s christening. boyhood moment I have used this very same College, Oxford, to mark his retirement as Organist and Choir Master, May 2014. 4 The inspiration for this piece came in the form chord in my New College Service, commissioned Let All the World in Every Corner Sing Commissioned by Iain Donald for Hampton School on the of opposing triads being “tuned into one by Dr Higginbottom some thirty years on, and I owe so much to my five years as a chorister occasion of their 450th anniversary celebration service in St harmony”. In the beginning the D & A triads in this time I think I got away with it! (1981-6) in the choir of New College, Oxford, Paul’s Cathedral, 2007. the upper voices over the G triad in the lower under the direction of Dr Edward Higginbottom, voices create dissonances which are finally On Eagles’ Wings is the culmination of over that I was delighted with this commission, to I love George Herbert’s poems, particularly resolved in A major. This A major section, based thirty years’ immersion in two of my greatest mark the great man’s retirement from the those also known as hymns or choral settings on the Latin Musica Dei donum words with a musical loves – cathedral music and jazz. The post. The melodic material is derived from (e.g. Howells’ King of Glory, King of Peace) and new melody, becomes the central part of an jazz element within the context of this church Dr Higginbottom’s dates as organist; 1976 in have always wanted to set Let all the world A-B-A form. repertoire is more about harmony and voicings the key of E major becomes E F# D# C#, followed (originally entitled Antiphon). The premiere in than it is about rhythm, although in the title by E B (Edward’s initials E.H.) followed by F# St Paul’s Cathedral featured the brass and track, the syncopated groove is all-important. D# E A for 2014. horns of the Hampton School big band, plus a percussion section to boot but it works This disc could not have been made without the equally well with organ accompaniment. immense generosity of my mother and stepfather, Alison and Michael Smedley, to whom I am extremely grateful for everything. I am also - 4 - - 5 - 7 On Eagles’ Wings 8 Oculi Omnium of the piece. Ideally the quartet of soloists, w Lute-book Lullaby Commissioned by Alex Mason for the St Davids Cathedral Commissioned by Leslie East for the Associated Board of the who “comment” on the text in a Latin Commissioned by Nigel Short for Tenebrae in 2001 and recorded Festival in 2008 and first performed on 28 May 2008. Dedicated Royal Schools of Music in 2009 and first performed as a grace for translation/commentary by my friend Francis in its a cappella version on the CD Mother and Child (SIGCD501, to Andrew Speedy. their annual luncheon. released June 2003). Dedicated to my nephew Thomas Michael Garcia, should be placed at a distance William L’Estrange. from the main choir, as Tenebrae have done My inspiration for this, the title track of the I am grateful to Leslie East, who for many years for this recording, as if to create a kind of album, lay in the many references in the ran the ABRSM office choir and would often This piece will always be close to my heart as it ethereal Greek Chorus. Bible to eagles: strength being renewed like commission a composer to write a grace for was my first published anthem. The melody is the eagle’s, parents hovering under their young their annual knees-up at the Park Lane Hilton. derived from the octatonic scale (alternating 0 God Be in My Head as they learn to fly, and the idea of “soaring “Oculi Omnium” was the grace that was said at semitones and tones), which serves to evoke a Commissioned by Tom and Katie Bullard for their wedding day, 7 bitter-sweet sense of foreboding. The contrast like eagles”. The anthem first introduces dinner every day at Merton College Oxford, where April 2006. fragments of the main theme, sometimes in I was an undergraduate. of this with a warmer, diatonic “Lulla, lullaby” quasi-recitative style, perhaps evoking an The simple melodic formula here rises by a refrain helps to highlight the poignancy of eaglet’s early attempts to fly. When the melody 9 My Song is Love Unknown scale-degree every line, leading to a darker, richer a mother singing a lullaby to a baby whose eventually appears in its entirety it is both Commissioned by Nigel Short for Tenebrae in 2002 and dedicated final statement and a Howells-inspired cadence future would involve suffering. to Francis Garcia and Becky Hookway for their wedding, 27 powerful and uplifting; with a range of an with a double suspension in the upper voices. December 2007. First performed in its a cappella version at St e Epiphany Carol octave and a half, it reaches a climax with Luke’s, Chelsea, London, on 12 September 2002. With thanks to Specially composed for the St Paul’s Cathedral Carol Competition the words “I will soar on eagles’ wings”. The the John Ireland Trust for their permission to make reference to q Panis Angelicus in 2013 and first performed in the chapel of King’s College the composer’s Love Unknown melody. counter-melody beginning “He has lifted me up” Commissioned by Spode Music Week to mark their 60th anniversary Cambridge in 2015. and the overall harmonic structure derive from in 2013. I have admired John Ireland’s hymn Love a jazz/big band composition from my student When it was suggested to me that I enter a piece unknown ever since I sang it as a boy, but it The melody and harmony of this upper-voices days; indeed, there were two versions of the for the St Paul’s Cathedral Carol Competition was in response to a beautiful interpretation by anthem have a warm, rich quality which owes world premiere at St Davids Cathedral in my wife, Joanna, composed this lovely poem the jazz saxophonist Ben Castle (son of the late something of a debt to an earlier song of mine, 2008 – one with choir and organ and another and its simple strophic structure and topical Sir Roy) that I chose this text.
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