Search - David [Choral Conductor] Willcocks, Gerald Knight, John Robinson :: Psalms from St. Paul's, Vol. 10

This is the penultimate volume of the Hyperion recordings of the St. Paul's Cathedral Psalter, in the version recently revised by John Scott. Here are 21 psalms, the strictly numerical sequence broken for the first time by the omission of any setting of Psalm 119, the longest and most quietly meditative of the psalms. Following the Church of England from the 17th to 20th centuries, what is most notable is the continuity of style, the sublimation of individual expression to a higher purpose. With the confidence of a nation sure of its place in the divine order, this is the quintessentially English foundation of the 20th-century lineage of Howells, Vaughan Williams, and Tavener. Vaughan Williams would edit his own English Hymnal, as well as write the great Mass in G Minor, while besides Howells's Requiem, the composer wrote numerous settings of the Evening Service. --Gary Dalkin