Ben Parry: The Hours The Choir of Royal Holloway & Rupert Gough

• Ben Perry (b. 1965):
• 1 Sun Soul 05:38
• 2 Early One Morning 02:49
• 3 First Day 04:50
• 4 My Heart's in the Highlands 03:51
• 5 Music: An Ode 02:53
• 6 Spring Sonnet No. 1 02:41
• 7 Spring Sonnet No. 2 03:24
• 8 Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon 03:16
• 9 Snow 04:58
• 10 New Year Carol 03:07
• 11 My Spirit Sang All Day 01:59
• 12 O Nata Lux 02:33
• 13 Ave Verum Corpus 03:16
• 14 God Be in My Head 01:46
• 15 The Lord's Prayer 01:54
• 16 Sonnet XXVII 03:02
• 17 Ar Hyd a Nos 03:58
• 18 Nunc Dimittis 03:45
• 19 Golden Slumbers 03:57
• 20 Eclipse 08:49
• 21 Lighten Our Darkness 04:51
• Total Runtime 01:17:17

Info for Ben Parry: The Hours

This recording made by the Royal Holloway Choir celebrates the music of Ben Parry. His compositions and arrangements include the popular Faber Carol Book and a burgeoning catalogue of choral music for Peters Edition and Oxford University Press.

He has enjoyed commissions from, among others, St John’s College, Cambridge, The Cathedral Choral Society of Washington DC, VOCES8, the BBC Singers, Chelmsford, Ely, Norwich and Worcester cathedrals and his music has been heard at the BBC Proms and on the TV and radio.

In this recording, he sets the words of poems by Garth Bardsley, who says of Ben’s work, “all of my poems stand alone but given the Parry treatment, I know that they take flight.”

The Choir of Royal Holloway is considered to be one of the finest mixed-voice collegiate choirs in Britain. Their recordings on the Hyperion label have attracted top reviews from all major music publications.

The choir gives 50-plus concerts a year with a particular specialism in collaborating with living composers. The choir has collaborated, performed and recorded with many prestigious ensembles, including The King’s Singers, BBC Singers, London Mozart Players, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Onyx Brass, Fretwork and the Britten Sinfonia.

Royal Holloway University Choir
Rupert Gough, conductor

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