Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost – Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross (2015) [eClassical FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost – Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross (2015)
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Recorded: April 2014 in the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St. Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire; June & July 2014 in the Chapel of Tonbridge School, Kent; July 2014 at All Hallows’ Church, Gospel Oak, London, UK

The Feast of the Ascension, celebrated on the 40th day of Easter, is one of the chief feasts of the Christian year, in which the resurrected Jesus was taken up to Heaven in the presence of 11 of his disciples. The Feast of Pentecost, which falls 10 days after Ascension – seven Sundays (50 days, hence the name) after Easter Sunday – commemorates in the Christian church the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. Both feasts are rich in imagery and in musical material. Many of the Ascensiontide works in this programme set all or parts of psalm 47, whose fifth verse begins ‘God is gone up with a merry noise’. ‘Ascendit Deus’ is a 5-part setting of that verse in Latin by the English Renaissance composer Peter Philips, which leads to a triple-time ‘Alleluia’. Ralph Vaughan Williams’s ‘O clap your hands’, dating from 1920, sets the opening verses of the psalm, performed here in the composer’s expanded version for choir, organ, brass and percussion. Patrick Gowers, an alumnus of Clare College, is known mainly for his film and television scores, but his double- choir setting of ‘Viri Galilaei’ is much performed and was written for the ordination of the Bishop of Oxford at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1987. Graham Ross’s expanded arrangement for choir, organ, brass and percussion receives its world première recording here, alongside four new works, commissioned by Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College in 2014, also receiving their world première recordings.

Tracklist:
1 Ascendit Deus – Peter Philips (c. 1560-1638) 2’12
2 O clap your hands – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) 3’11
3 Viri Galilaei – Patrick Gowers (b.1936) 6’53
4 Was it a voice? – Brett Dean (b.1961) 7’48
5 Let all the world in every corner sing – Nico Muhly (b.1981) 4’37
6 God is gone up – Gerald Finzi (1901-56) 4’40
7 Coelos ascendit hodie – Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) 1’50
8 Credo from Messe – Frank Martin (1890-1974) 6’03
9 Ascendo ad Patrem meum – Graham Ross (b.1985) 8’59
10 Ascending into heaven – Judith Weir (b.1954) 7’39
11 Come, Holy Ghost – Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012) 6’43
12 Pinsesalme – Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) 1’22
13 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me – Edward Elgar (1857-1934) 7’39
14 God is gone up (A Song for the Ascension) – Giles Swayne (b.1946) 7’15

Personnel:
Peter Harrison, Matthew Jorysz, organ
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
The Dmitri Ensemble
Graham Ross, conductor

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