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The works on 'In the Beginning', the new release by the Gloucester Cathedral Choir, were all written in the shadow or the aftermath of World War II, and unite composers of three nationalities who shared a gift of marrying melody to poetry. Finzi's Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, written in 1946, was the composer's longest single stretch of music he had so far attempted, and also his first attempt at writing for organ. The Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti eschewed the modernist trends of his colleagues; his Tre composizioni corali, from 1942-43, are informed by his immersion in Renaissance polyphony and profound Christianity. Britten's influential Rejoice in the Lamb was written in 1943 shortly after his return to the UK from America, where he met Aaron Copland, whose In the Beginning, a setting of the complete first chapter of the book of Genesis and much of the second from the King James Bible, concludes the disc.
As the successor to the boys and monks of the Benedictine Abbey, The Gloucester Cathedral Choir boasts a tradition tracing back over 900 years. Henry VIII established their current incarnation, along with the Church of England, in 1539. Andrew Nethsingha, the choir's Music Director, was a chorister at Exeter Cathedral, where his father, the distinguished Sri Lankan-born English church musician Lucian Nethsingha, was director of music for 26 years. He studied at the Royal College of Music where he was awarded seven prizes and was the youngest cathedral organist in Britain when appointed to Truro Cathedral in 1994. In addition to singing six services every week, the Gloucester Cathedral Choir's rich sonority is heard annually at the Three Choirs Festival, and regularly at the Cheltenham International Festival and on BBC radio and television broadcasts.
Critical acclaim for Andrew Nethsingha and Gloucester Cathedral Choir:
"Upholding the [English choral] tradition admirably" - The Gramophone
"Superb in both technique and musicianship" - Diapason (Andrew Nethsingha)
Recorded 2005, Gloucester Cathedral.
Personnel:
Gloucester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Nethsingha, (conductor), Frances Bourne (mezzo-soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor)
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