New from The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford

Voices of Thunder - Works for Choir & Organ

Album Description

Voices of Thunder features a range of spectacular choral pieces that showcase Magdalen College Chapel’s new Eule organ.

Following on from Peace I leave with you, this new album combines the sublime voices of The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, with the new and exciting sonorities of the Eule organ. The recording includes music from Joseph Haydn to Judith Weir, as well as Arvo Pärt’s atmospheric Beatitudes, Libby Larsen’s playful I will sing and raise a psalm, and Hubert Parry’s thunderous Blest Pair of Sirens.

The Eule organ was built by Herman Eule Orgelbau of Bautzen in Germany and is the first Eule organ of its kind to have been built in the UK for almost 100 years.

Artists

The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Romain Bornes, Edward Byrne & Alexander Pott organ
Mark Williams

Track Listing

James MACMILLAN (b.1959)
1. A New Song

Johnathan DOVE (b.1959)
2. Seek him that maketh the seven stars

Dobrinka TABAKOVA (b.1980)
3. Praise

Henry BALFOUR GARDINER (1877-1950)
4. Evening Hymn

Franz Joseph HAYDN (11732-1809)
5. Insanae et vanae curae

Malcolm BOYLE (c1902-76)
6. Thou, O God, art praised

Libby LARSEN (b.1950)
7. I will sing and raise a psalm

Charles Villiers STANFORD (1852-1924)
8. For lo, I raise up

Marcel DUPRÉ (1886-1971)
9. Laudate Dominum

Arvo PÄRT (b.1935)
10. The Beatitudes

Judith WEIR (b.1954)
11. Like to the falling of a star

Charles Hubert Hastings PARRY (1848-1918)
12. Blest Pair of Sirens

Total running time: 77.27

Also see Peace I leave with you