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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

Faire Is the Heaven:
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Hymne à la Vierge, Op. 24:
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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

This recording has now been re-released on Helios CDH55378 so all tracks are now on YT.
VII. Nicolas and the Pickled Boys:
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Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27:
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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

Pleasant enough, but the only connection with Stravinsky or the Voronezh District is that both are Russian. This video is of a piece by Georgy Sviridov, not yet on here.

Slightly more relevant would be a video of The Lord's Prayer by Stravinsky, but this recording has not yet found its way onto YT. Meanwhile, here is a recording by an uncredited choir:

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Comment by LaurenceD SUBS:

This is terrific, thanks for posting it.

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Comment by gregs45s SUBS:

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Found this little gem whilst browsing (12m views!)(stick with it)
Apologies to LaurenceD if it's not on this collection, it is Alexander Nazarov (soloist), but good stuff nonetheless.
(PS PM me if you want me to delete it from here, no problem)

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

This video from Hyperion gives a lovely insight into the young singers under Stephen Layton as they conclude the Nunc Dimittis of the Coll Reg for this CD: watch it full screen!

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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

This recording was reissued on 31st Aug 2010 with the same cat. No. and cover illustration of "Windsor Castle" by Paul Sandby, on Helios, again in 'The English Orpheus' Series.

This is mostly cheerful stuff from a minor British composer of the 18th Century.
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Comment by Gill Sans SUBS:

"Heraclitus" was the song I bought the CD for, here presented as a solo accompanied song. The record notes by Jeremy Dibble gives an explanation of how the song came about:

Heraclitus was originally composed as the fourth of Four Partsongs Op 110, completed in 1908 and published by Stainer & Bell in 1910. Later it was published by J B Cramer & Co. as a solo song arrangement in 1918. The famous text, taken from Ionica, a volume of poems by William Johnson Cory, is a translation from the Greek of an epigram by the finest of Hellenistic poets, Callimachus of Alexandria. The poem, an elegy, tells how bitter tears were shed at the news of the death of an old friend, Heraclitus of Hallicarnassus; yet, though long dead, his memory lives on in the mind of his friend. Cory’s translation is magnificent, as is Stanford’s limpidly diatonic setting, simple in its strophic design, yet full of deft harmonic turns and modal inflections; and, with the subtle ‘interjections’ from the piano, assumes a quite different identity in its solo guise.

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