Jeremy Backhouse

Roderick Williams, Martin Ford, Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse – Vaughan Williams, Elgar & Others: British Sacred Choral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:16:14 minutes | 2,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Naxos

Featuring Vaughan Williams’ masterly and intensely personal Five Mystical Songs, this album reflects on the sources of inspiration of some of his sacred choral works, alongside gems of 19th- and early-20th-century English church music. Often setting the poetry of the King James Bible, the finely spun melodies and sensitivity to word-rhythm of composers from S. S. Wesley to Herbert Howells result in a uniquely British form of expression.
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