Composer: Julian Anderson, Lennox Berkeley, Herbert Norman Howells, Francis Alan Jackson, Arvo Pärt, Herbert Sumsion, Giles Swayne, William Turner Walton, Sydney Watson
Performer: Glen Dempsey, Choir of St John’s College Cambridge
Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Catalogue: SIGCD667
Release: 2021
Size: 1.23 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Howells: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Regale, 1945)
01. Magnificat
02. Nunc Dimittis
03. Swayne: Magnificat I, Op. 33
Watson: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E
04. Magnificat
05. Nunc Dimittis
Walton: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
06. Magnificat
07. Nunc Dimittis
Berkeley: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Op. 99
08. Magnificat
09. Nunc Dimittis
Sumsion: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G
10. Magnificat
11. Nunc Dimittis
Jackson: Evening Service in G
12. Magnificat
13. Nunc Dimittis
14. Pärt: Magnificat
Anderson: Evening Canticles
15. Magnificat
16. Nunc Dimittis
Andrew Nethsingha and The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge release the second volume in the highly-praised “Magnificat” series and present nine settings of the Evening Canticles by celebrated organist-composers, written between 1932 and 1952, and non-church musicians from 1974-1989.
The recording culminates with a contemporay setting by Julian Anderson, composed for the Chapel’s 150th anniversary. “These first volumes are designed to complement one another. “Magnificat 1” started earlier, with Stanford in the 1880s; Volume Two brings us briefly up to the present day. The first release contained celebrated works by Tippett and Leighton from 1961 and 1972 respectively, in between the two main periods represented on this recording. Both albums contain iconic works by Howells, written a year apart. We hear composers creating different orders of priority for the parameters of composition”