Composer: Edgar Bainton, David Bednall, Edward William Elgar, Francis John Roy Grier, Owain Park
Performer: London Choral Sinfonia, James Orford, Brian O’Kane, Samantha Bond, Simon Callow, Adrian Peacock, Samuel Pantcheff, Alison Ponsford-Hill
Conductor: Michael Waldron
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Orchid
Catalogue: ORC100223
Release: 2023
Size: 2.22 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Grier: Sword in the Soul
01. We venerate the wood of thy Cross
02. Narration 1
03. Nunc Dimittis
04. Narration 2
05. O Lord, thou hast duped me
06. Narration 3
07. Lovely tears of lovely eyes
08. Narration 4
09. Dialogue for cello & organ
10. Narration 5
11. O Cross of Christ
12. Narration 6
13. Today he who hung the earth upon the waters
14. Park: Hail, gladdening Light
15. Elgar: We will remember them (Introit)
16. Elgar: Lux aeterna
17. Bednall: Nunc Dimittis
18. Bainton: And I saw a new heaven
In an album that includes world-premiere recordings, Michael Waldron and the London Choral Sinfonia perform Francis Grier’s modern-day Passion, Sword in the Soul, to texts by Rowan Williams narrated by Simon Callow, Samantha Bond and Adrian Peacock. Alongside Grier’s Sword in the Soul, we hear Lux Eterna, the profoundly moving choral setting of Elgar’s famous ‘Nimrod’ from his Enigma Variations, as well as a rarely-heard piece by Elgar recorded only once before: the intensely poignant We Will Remember Them, a beautiful and simple a cappella arrangement of a famous text. The album also features music by contemporary composer David Bednall, and LCS’s Composer in Residence Owain Park.