Utwory na płycie:

• Howells: A Hymn For St Cecilia
• Howells: Salve Regina
• Howells: Gloucester Service - 1. Magnificat
• Howells: Gloucester Service - 2. Nunc Dimittis
• Howells: Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing
• Howells: St Paul's Service - 1. Magnificat
• Howells: St Paul's Service - 2. Nunc Dimittis
• Howells: Requiem - 1. Salvator Mundi
• Howells: Requiem - 2. Psalm 23
• Howells: Requiem - 3. Requiem Aeternam I
• Howells: Requiem - 4. Psalm 121
• Howells: Requiem - 5. Requiem Aeternam II
• Howells: Requiem - 6. I Heard A Voice From Heaven
• Howells: Michael, 'All My Hope On God Is Founded'

A Hymn for St Cecilia
Salve regina
Gloucester Service
Take him, earth, for cherishing
St Paul’s Service
Requiem
All my hope on God is founded

Herbert Howells was acutely sensitive to the transience of life, having witnessed the loss of friends and contemporaries in the First World War and encountered deep personal tragedy when his son Michael died of polio at the age of just nine. And so a mood of elegiac yearning inhabits much of his choral music: the austere, lovely a cappella Requiem, and the elegant Take him, earth, for cherishing, commissioned to commemorate the death of President John F Kennedy, here lovingly performed by the young voices of Trinity College Choir, Cambridge, in Hyperion’s Record of the Month for April 2012.

And yet Howells could write magnificently thrilling music too, as demonstrated by the fresh brilliance of A Hymn for St Cecilia, the spine-tingling grandeur of the St Paul’s Service, or the life-affirming hymn ‘All my hope on God is founded’, here further sweetened with a descant by John Rutter.