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78 Min.

2015

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120 g

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Ascendit Deus - Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost / Clare College Choir / Ross,Graham

Release Date: 03/10/2015
Label: Harmonia Mundi Catalog #: 907623
Composer: Peter Philips, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Patrick Gowers, Brett Dean, ...
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Number of Discs: 1
Length: 1 Hours 17 Mins.
EAN: 0093046762322


Works on This Recording

1. Cantiones sacrae, pro praecipuis festis totius anni et communi sanctorum: Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1612; Brussels, Belgium
2. O clap your hands by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1921; England
3. Viri Galilæi by Patrick Gowers
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
4. Was It a Voice? by Brett Dean
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
5. Let all the world in every corner sing by Nico Muhly
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
6. Anthems (3), Op. 27: no 2, God is gone up by Gerald Finzi
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1951; England
7. Coelis ascendit hodie by Charles Villiers Stanford
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Period: Romantic
8. Mass for Double Chorus: Credo by Frank Martin
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Written: Switzerland
9. Ascendo ad Patrem meum by Graham Ross
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
10. Ascending into Heaven by Judith Weir
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1983; Scotland
11. Come, Holy Ghost by Jonathan Dean Harvey
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Written: 1984
12. Peer Gynt, Op. 23: no 25, Whitsun Hymn "O blessed morning" by Edvard Grieg
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Period: Romantic
Written: Norway
13. The Apostles, Op. 49: The spirit of the Lord by Sir Edward Elgar
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902-1903; England
14. God is gone up by Giles Swayne
Conductor: Graham Ross
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cambridge Clare College Choir, Dmitri Ensemble


Notes and Editorial Reviews

Ascension and Pentecost are among the chief feasts of the Christian year. On Ascendit Deus, the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and The Dmitri Ensemble, both led by Graham Ross, explore the rich imagery of musical settings that span five centuries, including five world première recordings. This is the fourth album by the choir dedicated to the major periods of the Christian church calendar.

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AllMusic Review by James Manheim [-]
Just in time for the Easter season in 2015 came this release from the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, with many pieces setting texts from Psalm 47 ("God is gone up with a merry noise"). It's certainly in the vein of seasonal releases done by this choir and other British collegiate choirs in the past. But Ascendit Deus distinguishes itself not only through expert singing, but through a program that hangs together very well. Conductor Graham Ross sets weightier pieces, including his own Ascendo ad Patrem meum (track 9) against shorter, more limpid, joyous works. The former group includes the world-premiere Viri Galilaei, by film composer Patrick Gowers, reorchestrated by Ross. That's a roundabout origin for a type of program that tends to favor tradition, but the big dramatic strokes of this piece make satisfying sense in this context. The shorter works are likewise intelligently chosen, with American composer Nico Muhly making perhaps his first appearance on a program of this sort with Let all the world in every corner sing (track 5). The program grows into double choir material in the middle and then contracts back, another satisfying thread. There are very few chestnuts, but there are enough, including Vaughan Williams' O clap your hands, for traditionalists to orient themselves. In general, a state-of-the-art seasonal sacred recording, beautifully engineered.

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BBC Music Magazine April 2015
the famous setting of Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips spurts forward like a colt sprung freshly from a stable, the vocal decorations spinning vertiginously round like Monteverdi. It's a bracing opening salvo...Amid the muscular Christianity there are welcome oases of reflection. Conductor Graham Ross's Ascendo ad Patrem meum is one of them.
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Gramophone Magazine April 2015
Peter Philips's Ascendit Deus is splendidly bright and vigorous...Nico Muhly's Let all the world, quite unlike the RVW setting, is gentle, almost contemplative; Giles Swayne's God is gone up offers another surprise with its quiet ending. These and the well-known Elgar and Finzi pieces are all beautifully performed by this accomplished choir. Let's hope an Easter disc is on its way.

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MusicWeb International 3rd April 2015
This is another very fine and varied album from Clare College. The singing is consistently superb in every respect throughout a demanding programme.

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The Classical Reviewer April 2015
This is a very fine choral disc that will bring enjoyment not just at Ascensiontide and Pentecost but throughout the year. The recordings from three different venues all add a spaciousness and breadth with producer and engineer, John Rutter, knowing just what to achieve with a choral sound. There is a beautifully produced booklet that includes colour photographs of various pre-Raphaelite stained glass windows.

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Christi Himmelfahrt und Pfingsten sind zwei Hochfeste des christlichen Kirchenjahrs. Der Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, und das Dmitri Ensemble, beide unter der Leitung von Graham Ross, spüren der reichen Metaphorik in Vertonungen aus fünf Jahrhunderten nach, darunter fünf Ersteinspielungen.

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