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Nunc dimittis The Gloucester Service Herbert Howells John Rutter W Marshall Cambridge Singers
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'Nunc dimittis: The Gloucester Service' • From the album ‘Stanford and Howells Remembered’ • Composer Herbert Howells • Conductor John Rutter • Organ Wayne Marshall • Choir The Cambridge Singers • Buy, download or stream: https://lnk.to/StanfordHowells • Find more of the catalogue and curated playlists by subscribing to the channel: • http://bit.ly/2uQMe9P • Social Media Links: • Facebook: / johnruttermusic • Twitter: / johnmrutter • Instagram: / johnrutter.composer • Website: https://www.johnrutter.com • LYRICS: • Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for • mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all • people: to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people • Israel. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in • the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. • (Luke 2, vv.29–32) • Nunc dimittis: The Gloucester Service • Howells composed over twenty sets of Anglican canticles—probably more than any other composer, and a tribute to his ability to draw varied inspiration from the same texts. In his own words: ‘In all my music for the church, people and places have been a dual influence. The Collegium Regale [1944] is the original source of the series of canticle-settings made for certain cathedrals and Collegiate chapels’. The Gloucester Service of 1946 came next, and is considered by some to be his finest. Its title page bears the inscription ‘for the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, Gloucester’. Like most of Howells’s Magnificat settings, this one establishes the feminine character of the text by beginning just with the soprano voices of the choir, building up only reticently from the sarabande-like opening to a full texture and eventually subsiding into a softly exquisite ‘amen’ that reminds us of Howells’s affinity with Debussy and Ravel. The contemplative Nunc dimittis, according to custom in Anglican settings, repeats the music of the ‘Gloria’ section, but with subtle transformations that are very much Howells’s own. • Stanford and Howells Remembered • This recording is a choral tribute to the sacred music of two visionary composers: Stanford and Howells, who, among their other achievements, made distinctive, lasting and much-cherished contributions to the musical repertory of the English Church. • John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols. • Contact • [email protected]
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