Parry

Parry – Songs of Farewell – The Choir of Westminster Abbey with James O’Donnell

This Hyperion release focuses on evening canticles and motets, but no less significant for being without organ. With the exception of Stanford’s Three Motets (published in 1905), the other works belong to the years 1912 and 1918 and were mostly conceived for collegiate choirs at Cambridge University (where Stanford, Alan Gray and Charles Wood held …

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Premiere recording of Hubert Parry’s Judith – Sarah Fox, Toby Spence, Kathryn Rudge, Henry Waddington, Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players/William Vann [Chandos]

This Chandos release is the recording debut of an oratorio that was an immediate hit at its first outings in 1888 (starting in Birmingham, then doing the rounds of the UK), and the fact that the performance of Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry’s Judith at the Royal Festival Hall in April 2019 (on which this …

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