Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Martin Ennis, Olivia Robinson, Rebecca Lodge, Christopher Bowen, Edward Price, Bach Choir
Orchestra: New Queen’s Hall Orchestra
Conductor: Alan Tongue
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Albion
Catalogue: ALBCD020
Release: 2014
Size: 233 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Vaughan Williams: A Cambridge Mass
01. Credo: Credo
02. Credo: Qui propter nos homines
03. Credo: Et resurrexit tertia die
04. Credo: Amen
05. Offertorium (orchestral intermezzo)
06. Sanctus
07. Hosanna
08. Benedictus
09. Hosanna: Finale
10. Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
In 1897 Vaughan Williams began work on his exercise for the degree of Doctor of Music from Cambridge University. He finished the degree work – what we now call A Cambridge Mass – in January, 1899 and was duly awarded the Doctorate in 1901. Despite talk of other honours in later years, he was proud to be known as Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams from that date on.
Vaughan Williams’ period at Cambridge was to influence his character, friendships, ideals and musical development for the rest of his life.