WAR & PEACE 9 Elegy George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987) [4.43] Robert Dixon organ MUSIC FOR REMEMBRANCE 0 Blahoslovy dushe moya hospoda Kirill Stetsenko (1882-1922) [2.58] College 1 Crossing the Bar Charles H. H. Parry (1848-1918) [2.40] q Justorum animae Matthew Martin (b.1976) [2.38] Combined College Choir 2 Nunc dimittis (1866-1926) [2.54] w The souls of the righteous Geraint Lewis (b.1958) [7.47] College Choir Combined Choirs 3 The Beatitudes Arvo Pärt (b.1935) [6.56] Benjamin Morris organ College Choir e Faire is the heaven William H. Harris (1883-1973) [5.24] Benjamin Morris organ College Choir 4 A Child’s Prayer James MacMillan (b.1959) [3.51] r (1916-1996) [1.17] Combined Choirs Chapel Choir Alasdair Austin treble Samuel Fitzgerald treble t Kontakion of the Dead Traditional Kiev Melody [3.51] 5 Greater love hath no man John Ireland (1879-1962) [6.02] Combined Choirs Chapel Choir y Lord, thou hast been our refuge (1872-1958) [9.21] Dominic Hill treble College Choir Michael Mofidian baritone Harriet Flower soprano Sophie Hytner alto Robert Dixon organ Edward Leach tenor Max Cockerill bass 6 There is an old belief Charles H. H. Parry [4.00] Robert Dixon organ Rebecca Crawshaw trumpet College Choir Total timings: [74.48] 7 : For the Fallen Mark Blatchly (b.1960) [5.00] Choristers Rebecca Crawshaw trumpet THE CHOIR OF JESUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Robert Dixon organ ROBERT DIXON & BENJAMIN MORRIS ORGAN 8 Geistliches Lied Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) [5.24] REBECCA CRAWSHAW TRUMPET MARK WILLIAMS DIRECTOR College Choir Benjamin Morris organ www.signumrecords.com WAR & PEACE superbly written for unaccompanied voices; the six-voice unaccompanied Nunc dimittis of ceaselessly-cycling scales which is one of Music for Remembrance in their contrapuntal mastery and harmonic in B flat is his only Latin setting. This was his trademarks, and which he developed from richness they must be ranked among the commissioned for the Choir of Westminster 1977 onwards, other works are distinguished Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry has always masterpieces of English choral music. For the by Richard Runciman Terry and by their precise and consummate handling of been paid at least lip-service as one of the fourth of these There is an old belief, Parry completed on 25 March 1916; Terry’s choir first different choral textures: his feeling for what founding fathers of the English Musical chose words by the Scottish poet, novelist and performed it there during an Easter service of the human voice may achieve in majestic Renaissance. For a long time, although his biographer John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) Compline in 1916. Richly-textured, the setting and intimate euphony is outstanding among memory was kept green through such fine which declare that a better world lies ‘beyond rises to a climax at ‘Lumen ad revelationem’; present-day choral . His setting of the works as the choral song Jerusalem and the the sphere of Time and Sin, and Fate’s control’. the ‘Gloria Patri et Filio’ begins in unison but Beatitudes for chorus and organ dates from 1990 coronation I was glad, his large output Serenity is the distinguishing characteristic of the textures open out again for the final and is one of the few works he has composed in of music was largely forgotten and unregarded. this , expressed by Parry in a sonorous triumphant ‘Amen’. English. It is a work of great restraint, in which Another exception to this neglect is his setting six-part polyphonic texture. After a unison Pärt sets the verses from Christ’s Sermon on the of Tennyson’s famous poem Crossing the Bar, reference to the plainsong of the Credo at The Estonian Arvo Pärt has become one of the Mount in his tintinnabular fashion, but within which was written in 1903 – the year in which the words ‘that creed I fain would keep’, the most celebrated of living composers on account an unusually chromatic harmonic structure Parry was created a Baronet – for Novello’s motet ends with majestic and beautifully-crafted of the beauty, simplicity and spiritual aura of provided by the ascending pedal line in the Parish Choir Book and had its first performance choral writing. his works, most of which are religious in organ, against which rocking triadic chords at the Hereford Festival. Starting with the revised inspiration. Born in Tallinn, under Soviet rule descend. The piece is a harmonic palindrome, with Ancient and Modern, it has since found Born in Armagh in Northern Ireland, Charles Wood, Pärt survived largely by working as recording the tenor and bass lines inversions of the treble its way into many books and collections who studied with Parry and Stanford, became an director for Estonian national radio and writing and alto. After the final six chords of the ‘Amen’, of inspirational music. Tennyson is thought to important teacher in his turn (his pupils included film scores. His religious leanings led to a the organ’s dramatic entry, with fiery arpeggios, have written the poem as his own elegy, and it Vaughan Williams). He wrote a large number strong interest in plainchant, medieval and eventually arrives back at the tonality of the is an extended metaphor for the transition from of works for use in Anglican church services – Renaissance music, and this in turn had a opening, closing a circle of keys. life to death. , Communion service settings, psalm profound effect on his own works, leading him settings and so on – as well as songs, cantatas, to cultivate a quasi-archaic idiom whose The Scottish James MacMillan Recent years have seen the beginning of a stage works and orchestral and chamber principal effect is one of timelessness. Eventually composed A Child’s Prayer, for two treble soli revaluation of Parry’s orchestral and choral pieces. He was also an accomplished , he left the USSR in 1980, and has since lived and chorus, in 1996. It was in fact a tribute piece works, foremost among which is his noble series and ended his career as Professor of Composition in Austria and Germany. Pärt is often thought of composed in the aftermath of the harrowing of collectively entitled Songs of Farewell. at Cambridge University. Wood made several as a minimalist, but though many of his slaughter of 16 young primary school children Composed between 1913 and 1915, they are settings of the Nunc dimittis in English, but works employ the ‘bell-like’ tintinnabuli idiom and an adult teacher gunned down at Dunblane

- 4 - - 5 - High School in Scotland. The words – a text from the famous poem alto, with tranquil organ interludes and a glowing of the Ministry of Education of the short-lived (traditional) text that he remembered from his by . His setting, composed in canonic ‘Amen’ to conclude. Ukrainian People’s Republic. Though his life was childhood – have a piercing simplicity. The Oxford in October 1980 for voices and organ, comparatively short (he died of typhus while lamenting harmonies of the opening section, was written for performance at the British Though born in Sydney, Australian George attending to the sick during a famine) he was a underpinned by deep bass notes, seem imbued Legion’s 1980 Festival of Remembrance at Thalben-Ball was brought back to by prolific composer, especially of church music. with a terrible sorrow. The high voices of the the Royal Albert Hall and is dedicated to his Cornish parents at the age of four and was Blahoslovy dushe moya hospoda (Bless the two trebles eventually soar up, like the souls Barry Rose and the Choristers of St Paul’s a star pupil at the . In Lord O my Soul) is a lyrical and effective piece of the murdered children, and the piece builds Cathedral. At the words ‘At the going down of 1923, he succeeded Walford Davies as Organist opening in unison but expanding to five-part to a climax before subsiding to a quiet ending the sun …’ the music includes a part for solo of the Temple Church Choir, a post he held harmony, with some typically Russian deep bass for the trebles on their own. trumpet playing ‘The ’. for nearly 60 years. Under his direction, the writing towards the end. choir achieved international fame. Thalben-Ball John Ireland composed Greater love hath no Johannes Brahms’s Geistliches Lied is one of composed several anthems and organ works, Matthew Martin studied at Magdalen College man in 1912 for the Choristers of St Paul’s his earliest surviving choral works, and comes of which the best known is his meditative Elegy Oxford and the and is Cathedral, London, selecting the text from various from a period in the later 1850s when Brahms, for organ, which was played, for example, at considered a rising star among British church passages of Scripture. Although described as feeling himself deficient in technique, had the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. The music composers. As a performer, he has held ‘a Motet for Passiontide and other seasons’ it embarked on a course of study in strict piece started life during World War II at the close positions at New College, Oxford, Canterbury has come to be sung most often in services counterpoint, especially canon. Canons with of a BBC live broadcast of a religious service Cathedral and , and commemorating the victims of war, and the words had more intrinsic interest, and a reason which had ended a few minutes early, leaving since 2001 has been involved with the annual composer produced a version of the work to be more expressive, than purely instrumental a gap to be filled, and Thalben-Ball as organist Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy with orchestra in 1924. Clearly influenced by ones, and so his first works for combined did so with a spontaneous improvisation. Many where he is director of the Nave Choir of men the church music of his teacher Stanford, voices grew directly out of his canonic listeners afterwards telephoned the BBC to and boys. His Justorum animae was composed Ireland’s motet manifests strong melodic writing, studies. The Geistliches Lied, for mixed chorus find out what the composition was, prompting in October 2003 and sets the Latin proper for is well defined in its structure, and passes and organ, is a beautifully lyrical setting of Thalben-Ball to write it down from memory – it the Feast of All Saints for unaccompanied very effectively across a variety of keys, moods, a text by the 17th-century German poet, Paul subsequently became his most popular work. lower voices (alto, tenors and bass). It is and tempi, with brief but memorable solo Fleming (1609-1640). Composed in Hamburg in dedicated to the memory of Dickon Peschek, passages for treble and baritone. April 1856 (but not published until eight years The Ukrainian composer Kirill Grigor’yevich a popular chorister at Wantage Parish Church later, as Brahms’s op. 30), the manuscript Stetsenko was the son of an icon painter, and who tragically took his own life when diagnosed Mark Blatchly’s elaborate and dramatic includes a subtitle – ‘Double Canon at the became an Orthodox priest towards the end of as terminally ill with cancer. September 1914: For the Fallen sets the complete Ninth’. Tenor and bass imitate soprano and his life as well as head of the music section

- 6 - - 7 - After five years as a Junior Scholar at the Royal 1925, is probably his best-loved work and sets came to mean a sermon or religious teaching TEXTS Welsh College of Music and Drama, Geraint verses from the much longer poem A Hymne accompanied by music. This moving, intimate Lewis read Music at St John’s College of Heavenlie Beautie by the great Elizabethan hymn is generally sung in England to a 1 Crossing the Bar Cambridge. He lectured on Music at Bangor poet Edmund Spenser. This is a richly-imagined translation of the text (‘Give rest, O Christ, to Charles H. H. Parry University and subsequently became Deputy and expansively-conceived setting for double thy servant’) by W. J. Birkbeck (1869-1916). Director of Music at Nimbus Records. He choir, as well as a challenge for the singers. Sunset and evening star, succeeded as Artistic Director Harris’s skilful modulations and subtle gradations Ralph Vaughan Williams composed the anthem And one clear call for me! of the North Wales International Music Festival from major to minor bespeak a real mastery of for double choir and organ Lord, thou hast been And may there be no moaning of the bar and served for many years on the Music Panel tonality, put perfectly at the service of a profound our refuge in 1921. It combines the biblical When I put out to sea. of the Arts Council for Wales. He composed yet radiant text. words of Psalm 90 with the more familiar The Souls of the Righteous (Iustorum Animae), metrical version written by : the But such a tide as moving seems asleep, to a text from the biblical Book of Wisdom as Douglas Guest came from Yorkshire and had hymn ‘O God, our help in ages past’. The metrical Too full for sound and foam. a memorial to the composer William Mathias. a distinguished career as an organist and version has traditionally been associated with When that which drew from out the boundless deep Marked ‘Very slow and tranquil’, the prelude choirmaster that culminated in his appointment the tune ‘St Anne’, composed by William Croft Turns again home. and interludes for organ alone alternate with in 1963 as Organist and Master of the in 1708; and Vaughan Williams essentially chorale-like vocal phrases, creating an effect of Choristers at . He composed bases his dramatic and full-blooded anthem on Twilight and evening bell, great simplicity and quiet intensity. relatively little, but the short anthem For the that noble melody, at first with the psalm-text And after that the dark! Fallen, written for the Westminster Abbey Choir chanted by a semi-chorus, while the hymn-text And may there be no sadness of farewell was one of the best-loved for the annual Remembrance Day Service in is sung by the full choir to broad phrases taken When I embark. and most stalwart cathedral musicians of the 1971 setting lines from Laurence Binyon’s from Croft’s original. The middle section is more first half of the 20th century. Professor of Organ Remembrance Day poem, has become a great freely developed, and in the final section there For, though from out our bourne of time and place and Harmony at the Royal College of Music from favourite at Remembrance Day services and are touches of fugal writing leading to an The flood may bear me far, 1921 to 1955, he also became organist at St has been sung around the world. imposing conclusion. Vaughan Williams clearly I hope to see my Pilot face to face George’s Chapel, Windsor in 1933 and conducted had in mind J. S. Bach’s so-called ‘St Anne’ When I have crossed the bar. for the coronation services in 1937 and 1953. A The traditional Kievan Kontakion of the Dead is Fugue, whose opening subject is identical to famously efficient and inspiring choir-trainer, a devotional hymn for the souls of the departed the hymn tune, when writing this majestic work. Words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) he wrote mainly Anglican church music, and that forms part of the Russian Orthodox burial his services and canticles are still in use. service. The term Kontakion is associated with © 2013 by Malcolm MacDonald His anthem Faire is the heaven, composed in the unwinding of a religious scroll, so that it

- 8 - - 9 - 2 Nunc dimittis 3 The Beatitudes 4 A Child’s Prayer I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, Charles Wood Arvo Pärt James MacMillan that ye present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Blessed are the poor in spirit: Welcome Jesu, which is your reasonable service. Domine, secundum verbum tuum in pace: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Deep in my soul forever stay, Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum. Blessed are they that mourn: Joy and love my heart are filling Words: Song of Solomon 8:7; John 15:13; I Peter 2:24; Quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum: for they shall be comforted. On this glad and sacred day. I Corinthians 6:11; I Peter 2:9; Romans 12:1. Lumen ad revelationem gentium, Blessed are the meek: 6 et gloriam plebis tuae Israel. for they shall inherit the earth. Words: Traditional There is an old belief Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto; Blessed are they which do hunger Charles H. H. Parry Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, and thirst after righteousness: 5 Greater love hath no man et in saecula saeculorum. Amen. for they shall be filled. John Ireland There is an old belief, Blessed are the merciful: That on some solemn shore Lord, now lettest thou thy servant for they shall obtain mercy. Many waters cannot quench love, Beyond the sphere of grief depart in peace: according to thy word. Blessed are the pure in heart: neither can the floods drown it. Dear friends shall meet once more. For mine eyes have seen: thy salvation; for they shall see God. Love is strong as death. Beyond the sphere of Time and Sin, Which thou hast prepared: before the face of Blessed are the peacemakers: Greater love hath no man than this, And Fate’s control, all people; for they shall be called the children of God. that a man lay down his life for his friends. Serene in changeless prime To be a light to lighten the Gentiles: Blessed are they which are persecuted Who his own self bare our sins Of body and of soul. and to be the glory of thy people Israel. for righteousness’ sake: in his own body on the tree, That creed I fain would keep, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. That we, being dead to sins, That hope I’ll ne’er forgo. and to the Holy Ghost; Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, should live unto righteousness. Eternal be the sleep, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, If not to waken so. shall be: against you falsely, for my sake. ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus. world without end. Amen. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: Ye are a chosen generation, Words: John Gibson Lockhart (1774-1854) for great is your reward in heaven: a royal priesthood, a holy nation; Words: Luke 2:29-32 for so persecuted they the prophets That ye should show forth the praises of him which were before you. Amen. who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Words: Matthew 5:3-12

- 10 - - 11 - 7 September 1914: For the Fallen 8 Geistliches Lied 0 Blahoslovy dushe moya hospoda q Justorum animae Mark Blatchly Johannes Brahms Cyrilo Stetsenko Matthew Martin

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren mit Trauren, Blahoslovy, dushe moya Hospoda, Justorum animae in manu Dei sunt, England mourns for her dead across the sea. sei stille, wie Gott es fügt, Blahoslovennyy ty Hospody. et non tanget illos tormentum mortis. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, so sei vergnügt mein Wille! Blahoslovy, dushe moya Hospoda Visi sunt oculis insipientium mori, Fallen in the cause of the free. I vsia istoto moya, imia sviateie Yoho. illi autem sunt in pace. Was willst du heute sorgen auf morgen? Blahoslovy, dushe moya Hospoda They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Der Eine steht allem für, I ne zabuvay vsikh dobrodiystv Yoho. The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. der gibt auch dir das Deine. Blahoslovy, dushe moya Hospoda, and the torment of death shall not touch them. They were staunch to the end against Blahoslovennyy ty Hospody. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die; odds uncounted; Sei nur in allem Handel ohn’ Wandel, but they are in peace. They fell with their faces to the foe. steh’ feste, was Gott beschleusst, Bless the Lord O my soul, das ist und heisst das Beste. Amen. Blessed art thou, O Lord my God. Words: Wisdom 3:1-2a, 3b They shall grow not old, as we that are left Bless the Lord O my soul, grow old: Do not be sorrowful or regretful; And all that is in me bless his holy name. w The souls of the righteous Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. Be calm, as God has ordained, Bless the Lord O my soul, Geraint Lewis At the going down of the sun and in the morning and thus my will shall be content. And forget not all his benefits. We will remember them. Bless the Lord O my soul, The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, What do you want to worry about from day to day? Blessed art thou, O Lord my God. And the pain of death shall not touch them. They mingle not with their laughing There is One who stands above all To the eyes of the foolish, comrades again; who gives you, too, what is yours. Words: From the service of Vespers in the Orthodox rite; They seemed to perish; They sit no more at familiar tables at home; based on Psalm 103 but they are in peace. They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; Only be steadfast in all you do, They sleep beyond England’s foam. stand firm; what God has decided, Words: Wisdom 3:1-2a, 3b that is and must be the best. Amen. Words: Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) Words: Paul Fleming (1609-1640)

- 12 - - 13 - e Faire is the heaven r For the Fallen y Lord, thou hast been our refuge For when thou art angry all our days are gone; William H. Harris Douglas Guest Ralph Vaughan Williams we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told. Faire is the heaven where happy soules have place They shall grow not old, as we that are left Lord, thou hast been our refuge In full enjoyment of felicitie; grow old: from one generation to another. The years of our age are three score years and ten, Whence they do still behold the glorious face Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. Before the mountains were brought forth, and though men be so strong Of the Divine, Eternal Majestie; At the going down of the sun and in the morning or ever the earth and the world were made, that they come to fourscore years, Yet farre more faire be those bright Cherubins We will remember them. Thou art God from everlasting and world yet is their strength but labour and sorrow; Which all with golden wings are overdight. without end. so passeth it away and we are gone. Words: Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) And those eternal burning Seraphins Thou turnest man to destruction;

Which from their faces dart out fiery light; again thou sayest come again ye children of men. Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last. t Kontakion of the Dead Yet fairer than they both and much more bright For a thousand years in thy sight Be gracious unto thy servants. Traditional Kiev Melody Be the Angels and Archangels are but as yesterday, O satisfy us with thy mercy and that soon. Which attend on God’s owne person without seeing that is past as a watch in the night. So shall we rejoice and be glad Give rest, O Christ, to thy servant with thy saints: rest or end. all the days of our life. where sorrow and pain are no more; These then in faire each other farre excelling (O God our help in ages past, neither sighing but life everlasting. As to the Highest they approach more neare, Our hope for years to come, Lord, thou hast been our refuge Thou only art immortal, the creator and maker Yet is that Highest farre beyond all telling Our shelter from the stormy blast, from one generation to another. of man: Fairer than all the rest which there appeare And our eternal home.) Before the mountains were brought forth, and we are mortal formed of the earth, Though all their beauties joynd together were; or ever the earth and the world were made, and unto earth shall we return: How then can mortal tongue hope to expresse As soon as thou scatterest them, thou art God from everlasting and world for so thou didst ordain, The image of such endlesse perfectnesse? they are even as a sleep without end. when thou createdst me saying: and fade away suddenly like the grass. And the glorious majesty of the Lord be upon us. “Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return.” Words: Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) In the morning it is green and groweth up, Prosper thou, O prosper thou the work of All we go down to the dust; but in the evening it is cut down, our hands, and weeping o’er the grave we make our song: dried up and withered. O prosper thou our handywork. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Words: From the Eastern Orthodox Liturgy for the Burial of the For we consume away in thy displeasure, Words: Psalm 90, para. Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Dead, translated W. J. Birkbeck (1869-1916) and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

- 14 - - 15 - THE CHOIR OF TV and Radios 2, 3 and 4. The Choir also has a JESUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE rapidly expanding discography. Praised by for their “energy, verve, immaculate tuning Jesus College, founded out of the ancient and beguiling tone”, Jesus Choral Scholars enjoy nunnery of St Radegund in 1496, has a long an exciting schedule of European and long-haul and rich tradition of church music. It is travel: the Choir has given recent concerts in distinctive in maintaining two choirs: the Chapel Turkey, Belgium and the Ukraine, and worked Choir, with its centuries of tradition, which with children in India as part of an educational is made up of boy choristers and adult male project in the slums of Mumbai. singers; and the College Choir, formed in 1982, which has female undergraduates for its top The all-male Chapel Choir is one of only line. The adult male singers form the ‘back row’ three college choirs of its kind in Cambridge, and for both choirs. Each choir has developed a is highly regarded. It is thought that boys may distinctive reputation and repertoire, whilst have sung in the Chapel from the foundation combining for key events and large-scale projects. of the College in the 15th century, but in In addition to the weekly schedule of choral 1849 the Choir was re-endowed and provision services, members of the Choirs enjoy concerts, was made for “six singing boys” to adorn the recordings, broadcasts and foreign tours. worship of the newly-restored Chapel. Since then, trebles from all over Cambridge have de Solesmes, France and the Chapel of Magdalen workshops and a final concert. The Chapel Choir The College Choir sings two services of Choral volunteered to sing for College services. The College Oxford; while the Choristers have travelled has made several recordings, including a disc of each week and regularly performs at College does not maintain a choir school, but to Arundel Castle to film for Channel 4 and Choral Evensong from Jesus College, and Sweet College feasts, additional services and concerts instead recruits choristers from a wide range Manchester to give live BBC radio broadcasts Spirit, Comfort Me, a selection of music for boys’ throughout the and abroad. of local schools. (visiting Old Trafford on the way!). In 2008, 2010 voices on the Priory label. Recently, the Choir has given well-received and 2012, the trebles collaborated with the Choir performances of Bach’s St John Passion, The Chapel Choir sings for two of the four Choral of King’s College and the Academy of Ancient Occasionally, the College and Chapel Choirs Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Rossini’s Petite each week, and also participates in Music for performances of Bach’s St Matthew join together for services and concerts, forming messe solennelle; participated in the BBC Proms services, events and concerts outside of the usual Passion. The Choir also leads singing days an ensemble of nearly 50 singers (known as the as part of the University’s 800th anniversary weekly routine. Recent performances have taken which see hundreds of local schoolchildren Combined Choirs). Recent projects have included celebrations; and recorded broadcasts for BBC the full Choir to venues as diverse as the Abbaye visiting Jesus College Chapel to take part in vocal Britten’s War Requiem in King’s College Chapel

- 16 - - 17 - under David Hill; two Christmas Celebration and featuring on television stations including REBECCA CRAWSHAW concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC1, ITV, CNN and ABC, and on BBC Radio 5 directed by ; Britten’s Saint Nicolas Live. They then toured Germany together in July Rebecca Crawshaw is one of the most promising with Britten Sinfonia; Fauré’s Requiem and 2012, performing in Arnstadt, Bad Langensalza, young professional trumpet players in the UK. works by Poulenc and Rodney Bennett, also Halle and Leipzig and visited the West Coast of the Emerging from a brass band background she with Britten Sinfonia; and Bach’s St Matthew USA in December 2012. This is the second disc was principal in the National Youth Brass Passion in under recorded by the Combined Choirs for Signum Band of Great Britain for six years, a soloist Mark Williams. In December 2010 the Combined Classics. Their first disc Journey into Light, with the European Youth Brass Band and Choirs toured together for the first time in several featuring music from Advent to Candlemas, a finalist in BBC Young Brass Player of the years, performing in a variety of venues along was released in 2012. Year. During her time at Cambridge Rebecca the East Coast of the United States of America, www.jesuscollegechoir.com held a Music Exhibition Award from Jesus College and was principal trumpet in the Treble Soprano Alto/ Tenor CUMS I orchestra, the Cambridge Beethoven Alasdair Austin Catriona Arthur Counter-Tenor Declan Corr Head Chorister Jessica Ballance Benjamin Atkins Edward Leach Ensemble and the award-winning Shadwell Aidan Bennett Louisa Dawes Natasha Brice Toby Miller Opera Company. She has recently worked Nicholas Bryan Harriet Flower Elizabeth Edwards Jaliya Senanayake with professional ensembles such as the Deputy Head Chorister Eleanor Holroyd Thomas Hillman London Sinfonietta and Opera North and Samuel Fitzgerald Kate Huggett Sophie Hytner Bass performed as a soloist in the Spitalfields Callum Mullins Deputy Head Chorister Katie Matthews Max Cockerill Festival. She is also an accomplished Baroque Toby Gardner Victoria Mattinson Thomas Rothwell Michael Mofidian Thomas Hadden Emma Pauncefort Andrew Stratton Henry Neill Trumpet player. Rebecca was a former student Dominic Hill Christopher Preston-Bell of Murray Greig, and Jim Watson, and studied Orlando Hodgson Gareth Thomas with Rod Franks and Mark David at the Royal Christopher Kaufman Elliot Thompson Academy of Music before graduating with Rhys Kotak distinction in 2011. Thomas Lane James Patterson Harry Shapiro Samuel Stark Theo Tinkler Hugo Walford Owain Fletcher Williams

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Robert Dixon is the Senior of Benjamin Morris is the Junior Organ Scholar Jesus College Cambridge, where he accompanies and a Foundation Scholar at Jesus College and occasionally directs the two College Choirs Cambridge, in his second year studying for a in their busy schedule of services, concerts, degree in Music. As Organ Scholar he broadcasts, recordings and tours. He was also accompanies the College’s two choirs for regular awarded a Foundation Scholarship at Jesus Chapel services, assists in the training of College in 2011, and is now in the third and final the boy choristers, occasionally conducts year of a degree in Theology. Although a native rehearsals and services, and accompanies of St Albans, Robert was previously the Organ numerous concerts, tours and recordings. He Scholar of , and prior to has performed in concerts in Europe and the that, at Oundle School. He became a Fellow USA and accompanied the undergraduate of the Royal College of in July 2010, College Choir on their recent pioneering and is currently studying with Gordon Stewart. tour to India to work with the charity Songbound. Before starting university, he spent Increasingly in demand both as a solo recitalist a year as Organ Scholar at Gloucester Cathedral. and as an accompanist, Robert has performed in a variety of guises in , churches and With recent venues including Alexandra concert halls throughout the UK – ranging from Festival in 2010 and at the Buxton Festival Palace, Gloucester Cathedral and St John’s Richard Pinel at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. St Paul’s Cathedral to , and from in 2011. He was awarded the College Cambridge, Benjamin is increasingly He recently became a Fellow of the Royal Birmingham Symphony Hall to the Royal Albert Prize for organ playing by St John’s College engaged as a soloist for recitals and other College of Organists, being awarded the Turpin Hall – as well as at locations in Austria, Belgium, Cambridge in February 2013. Robert has also performances; he has also appeared at St Paul’s and Durrant Prize, the Harding and Durrant the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, the played on a number of CDs, raising several Cathedral and Westminster Abbey; in Elgar’s The Prize and the Dr. F. J. Read Prize. This is his Netherlands, Slovakia, Ukraine, and the United hundreds of pounds for charity in the process, Dream of Gerontius at St John’s Smith Square; first appearance on disc with the Choirs of States of America. More recently he has given and has made recordings for BBC Radio and in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis under Jesus College. recitals at St John’s College Cambridge, and in Gloucestershire and for BBC Radio 2. However, the baton of Sir Roger Norrington in King’s Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester Cathedrals, his most unusual performance to date remains, College Cambridge. Benjamin studies with as well as performing during the Three Choirs aged 11, playing the oboe on the Tweenies! Gordon Stewart, having previously learnt with

- 20 - - 21 - MARK WILLIAMS was the Accompanist and Associate Conductor This disc has been made possible thanks to the of the City of London Choir, conducted by generosity of Patrons and Friends of the Choir of Mark Williams grew up in Bolton, Lancashire Hilary Davan Wetton. He is now their Chief Jesus College Cambridge. and sang as a boy at Guest Conductor. A Fellow of the Royal College Recorded in the Chapel of Jesus College Cambridge from 17 - 20 April 2012 by under the direction of Gordon Stewart and later of Organists, he is a Freeman of the City of kind permission of the Master and Fellows. Producer and Editor - Christopher Hazell Christopher Stokes. Following a year as Organ London, and a trustee of the Friends of Recording Engineers - Mike Hatch and Andrew Mellor Scholar of in , he went Cathedral Music, the Oundle Music Trust, Cover Image - Shutterstock on to take up the Organ Scholarship at Trinity the Harlton Organ Trust, the Muze Music Design and Artwork - Woven Design www.wovendesign.co.uk College Cambridge where he was also awarded Trust in Zambia, and Songbound which P 2013 The copyright in this recording is owned by Signum Records Ltd. an academic scholarship. In 2000, at the age aims to change the lives of underprivileged © 2013 The copyright in this CD booklet, notes and design is owned by Signum Records Ltd. of 21, he was appointed Assistant Organist children in India through music. He is the Any unauthorised broadcasting, public performance, copying or re-recording of Signum Compact of St Paul’s Cathedral in London and Director Honorary President of the Chamber Choir of Discs constitutes an infringement of copyright and will render the infringer liable to an action by law. Licences for public performances or broadcasting may be obtained from Phonographic Performance of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral School. He Erne Integrated College in Enniskillen. Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or relinquished both posts in April of 2006 in order transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other- wise, without prior permission from Signum Records Ltd. to pursue his growing freelance career. In In addition to writing and arranging music for September 2009 he took up the post of Director the popular classical-crossover groups Blake SignumClassics, Signum Records Ltd., Suite 14, 21 Wadsworth Road, Perivale, Middx UB6 7JD, UK. +44 (0) 20 8997 4000 E-mail: [email protected] of Music at Jesus College Cambridge where he and All Angels, Mark Williams has performed on www.signumrecords.com also holds a Fellowship, teaching in both the a number of film soundtracks, and appears on College and the Music Faculty. CD with the Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, As a conductor he has worked with the Britten the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, the Described as ‘the shooting star of the Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, Saraband Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London international organ scene’ by the Berliner Consort and City of Prague Philharmonic Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cambridge Singers, Zeitung and ‘a brilliant, fiery talent’ by The Orchestra. He has appeared as organist and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Oregonian newspaper, Mark Williams has conductor annually since 2000 at the King’s Consort, The Sixteen, Arcangelo and appeared as organist and harpsichordist International Festival in Portland Retrospect Ensemble. nationally and internationally with many of the Oregon, and has given solo recitals and led UK’s leading ensembles, including the London masterclasses in choral training, singing Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of London and organ performance in the UK, the USA, Sinfonia and the Gabrieli Consort and Players. Asia and Africa. Between 2001 and 2009 he

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WAR & PEACE MUSIC FOR REMEMBRANCE

1 Crossing the Bar Charles H. H. Parry [2.40] 2

Nunc dimittis Charles Wood [2.54] 3

The Beatitudes Arvo Pärt [6.56] PEACE & WAR 4 A Child’s Prayer James MacMillan [3.51] 5 Greater love hath no man John Ireland [6.02] 6 There is an old belief Charles H. H. Parry [4.00] 7 September 1914: For the Fallen Mark Blatchly [5.00]

8 Geistliches Lied Johannes Brahms [5.24] CHOIRS COLLEGE JESUS 9 Elegy George Thalben-Ball [4.43] 0 Blahoslovy dushe moya hospoda Kirill Stetsenko [2.58] q Justorum animae Matthew Martin [2.38]

JESUS COLLEGE CHOIRS w The souls of the righteous Geraint Lewis [7.47] e Faire is the heaven William H. Harris [5.24] r For the Fallen Douglas Guest [1.17] t Kontakion of the Dead Traditional Kiev Melody [3.51] y Lord, thou hast been our refuge Ralph Vaughan Williams [9.21] WAR & PEACE

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