Composer: Jonathan Rutherford
Performer: Amy Lyddon, Caroline Dale, London Voices
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Ben Parry
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Orchid
Catalogue: ORC100249
Release: 2023
Size: 490 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Psalm 13
02. The Artist
03. The Master
04. Final Parting
05. An Old Toast
06. The Hardy Sailor
07. Slugs
08. The Farmers Toast, Preceded by a Pensive Interlude
In an album of world-premiere recordings, Ben Parry conducts London Voices and the English Chamber Orchestra in choral music by British composer Jonathan Rutherford.
One of the first students to attend the Yehudi Menuhin School, Jonathan Rutherford went on to study with Lennox Berkeley, Harrison Birtwistle, Nadia Boulanger and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Rutherford’s choral music embraces sacred and secular texts ranging from the Bible to Oscar Wilde. This release features Rutherford’s setting of Psalm 13 for choir and strings, in which lamentation gives way to peace; The Artist and The Master, in which he adds musical layers to Wilde’s spiritual storytelling; and the elegiac Final Parting, to words by Julie Rutherford. The release ends with the good-humoured Four Toasts, composed during Rutherford’s teen years and later revised and orchestrated.