Title: Choral Music Artist: J. Weir Label: Delphian Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 801918340956 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2012-02-14 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: DIGIPACK PACKAGING
This first recording devoted entirely to Judith Weir's choral music comprises her complete works to date for unaccompanied choir or choir with one instrument (trombone and marimba as well as the more usual organ). Tracking her evolving relationship with the medium from her earliest liturgical commission to the most recent, premiered in 2009, it also includes several secular pieces and her two solo organ works, which are now established classics of the repertoire. The athleticism, intensity and clarity that mark out Geoffrey Webber's choir are ideally suited to Weir's strikingly original, approachable and fascinating music.
Tracks: 1.1 Psalm 148, for Chorus 1.2 My Guardian Angel, for Chorus 1.3 Vertue, for Chorus: Vertue 1.4 Vertue, for Chorus: Antiphon 1.5 Vertue, for Chorus: Prayer 1.6 Ascending Into Heaven, for Chorus ; Organ 1.7 Little Tree, for Chorus: Little Tree 1.8 Little Tree, for Chorus: I Carry Your Heart with Me 1.9 Little Tree, for Chorus: Now Is a Ship 1.10 Wild Mossy Mountains, for Organ 1.11 A Blue True Dream of Sky, for Chorus 1.12 Madrigal, for Chorus 1.13 Two Human Hymns, for Chorus ; Organ: Love Bade Me Welcome 1.14 Two Human Hymns, for Chorus ; Organ: Like to the Falling of a Star 1.15 Illuminare, Jerusalem, Carol 1.16 Drop Down, Ye Heavens, from Above, for Chorus 1.17 Love Bade Me Welcome, for Chorus 1.18 Ettrick Banks, for Organ
