Judith Bingham: Heaven and Earth & Other Works Tom Winpenny & Johan Hammarström

• Judith Bingham (b. 1952):
• 1 Bingham: Heaven and Earth 07:30
• Vanished London Churches:
• 2 Bingham: Vanished London Churches: Opening (Candlelight) 01:38
• 3 Bingham: Vanished London Churches: I. St. Michael's, Crooked Lane in Candlewick Ward 02:29
• 4 Bingham: Vanished London Churches: II. St. Swithin, Candlewright Street (London Stone) 01:57
• 5 Bingham: Vanished London Churches: III. St. John Zachary (Midsummer's Day) 02:21
• 6 Bingham: Vanished London Churches: IV. The First St. Stephen, Walbrook, Invisible Above the Ruins of the Mithraeum 02:31
• 7 Bingham: Vanished London Churches: V. The Body of St. Edmund Is Brought to St. Gregory by St. Paul's for Safety, in 1016 01:22
• 8 Bingham: Vanished London Churches: VI. Old St. Paul's, 1666 (Firelight) 02:56
• Judith Bingham:
• 9 Bingham: Bright Spirit (Arr. T. Winpenny & J. Bingham for Organ) 07:12
• 10 Bingham: Kalmar Rising: I. The Past Beneath Our Feet 06:57
• Daphne's Room:
• 11 Bingham: Daphne's Room: I. — 03:06
• 12 Bingham: Daphne's Room: II. — 01:57
• 13 Bingham: Daphne's Room: III. — 01:44
• Roman Conversions:
• 14 Bingham: Roman Conversions: I. San Clemente (A Mithraic Temple Lies Under Two Medieval Churches) 04:29
• 15 Bingham: Roman Conversions: II. Bernini's Daphne and Apollo 03:40
• 16 Bingham: Roman Conversions: III. The Sleeping Hermaphrodite 02:32
• 17 Bingham: Roman Conversions: IV. William Shelley, Son of an English Poet Is Transformed into Seed and Flowers 04:46
• 18 Bingham: Roman Conversions: V. Porta Alchemica 03:54
• Judith Bingham:
• 19 Bingham: Mountain Music 06:33
• 20 Bingham: Missa Brevis V "Behold the Sea": Voluntary "Eternal Procession" 03:31
• Total Runtime 01:13:05

Info for Judith Bingham: Heaven and Earth & Other Works

Judith Bingham is established as one of the foremost British composers writing for the organ. The powerfully atmospheric and evocative music in this recording richly demonstrates her gift for creating compelling works which draw inspiration from a broad range of historical, literary and artistic sources. The Åkerman & Lund organ of Västerås Cathedral is the perfect vehicle for this colourful programme, and both Heaven and Earth and Eternal Procession for two organs also feature the cathedrals Fredriksborg choir organ. Tom Winpennys acclaimed recording of Binghams Jacobs Ladder and other works for organ can be heard on Naxos 8.572687.

"Back in June 2011, I was welcoming Tom Winpenny’s first volume of organ music by Judith Bingham, one of England’s most outstanding composers of liturgical music.

Here she sheds those restraints and moves into works that have a more secular nature and explore the full extent of the four manual organ in Sweden’s Vasteras Cathedral. Its origins go back to 1898, and with the most recent review coming in 2009, the extensive range of colours available is immediately in evidence for the ‘tone poem’, Heaven and Earth, the church’s Choir Organ added almost in the role of an echo. The six churches visible in a 19th century painting by George Scharf, but sadly no longer with us, were the inspiration for the 2019 Vanished London Churches, the ghostly atmosphere carefully ‘nurtured’ until we reach the blaze that gutted the ‘old’ St. Paul’s in 1686. That score shares the major part of the disc with Roman Conversions, the picture-painting here a little more tangible with ‘all the stops pulled out’ finale for Rome’s Piazza Vittorio. Winpenny has arranged Bingham’s Bright Spirit, originally scored for wind instruments, and now recreated for the resources of the cathedral’s organ. More programmatic scenarios in Kalmar Rising and the unnerving sounds in Daphne’s Room, the mood continuing inthe opening of Mountain Music, the disc closing with an outgoing and valedictory Voluntary, Eternal Procession. This is not a dramatic programme, but the muted colours are beautifully captured by Winpenny in an excellently focused recording." (David's Review Corner)

Tom Winpenny, organ
Johan Hammarström Choir
Johan Hammarström, organ (tracks 1, 20), Bell (track 10)

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