Voices of Thunder - Works for Choir & Organ The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford & Mark Williams

• James MacMillan (b. 1959): A New Song:
• 1 MacMillan: A New Song 05:25
• Jonathan Dove (b. 1959): Seek Him That Maketh The Seven Stars:
• 2 Dove: Seek Him That Maketh The Seven Stars 06:36
• Dobrinka Tabakova (b. 1980):
• 3 Tabakova: Praise 05:18
• Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877 - 1950): Evening Hymn:
• 4 Gardiner: Evening Hymn 06:32
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809): Insanae et vanae curae, Hob. XX:1/13c:
• 5 Haydn: Insanae et vanae curae, Hob. XX:1/13c 06:55
• Malcolm Boyle (1902 - 1976): Thou, O God, Art Praised:
• 6 Boyle: Thou, O God, Art Praised 06:24
• Libby Larsen (b. 1950): I Will Sing and Raise a Psalm:
• 7 Larsen: I Will Sing and Raise a Psalm 04:51
• Oliver Tarney (b.1984), Jamal Sutton, Tomas Magnusson: For Lo, I Raise Up, Op. 145:
• 8 Tarney, Sutton, Magnusson: For Lo, I Raise Up, Op. 145 08:11
• Marcel Dupré (1886 - 1971): 4 Motets, Op. 9:
• 9 Dupré: 4 Motets, Op. 9: No. 4, Laudate Dominum 04:18
• Arvo Pärt (b. 1935): The Beatitudes:
• 10 Pärt: The Beatitudes 09:09
• Judith Weir (b. 1954): Two Human Hymns:
• 11 Weir: Two Human Hymns: No. 2, Like to the Falling of a Star 03:05
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848 - 1918): Blest Pair of Sirens:
• 12 Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens 10:35
• Total Runtime 01:17:19

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"Voices of Thunder“ (Stimmen des Donners) bietet eine Reihe spektakulärer Chormusik, die die erhabenen Stimmen des Chors des Magdalen College, Oxford, mit den neuen und aufregenden Klängen der neuen Eule-Orgel der Magdalen College Chapel (die erste ihrer Art, die im Vereinigten Königreich gebaut wurde) verbindet. Wir hoffen, dass diese Sammlung von Liedern, die John Milton in Blest Pair of Sirens als „hymns devout and holy psalms“ beschreibt, die Herzen der Zuhörer berühren wird, wenn Orgel und Chor zu einem wahrhaft „melodiösen Lärm“ zusammenfinden.

Alexander Pott, Tenor
Edward Byrne, Tenor
Romain Bornes, Tenor
Blaise Durodie, Tenor
Matthew Daly, te Tenor nor
Choir of Magdalen College Oxford
Mark Williams, Leitung

The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
was founded in 1480 with provision made in the statutes for 16 singing boys, eight Academical Clerks and four chaplains. Magdalen College was then one of the oldest and largest choral foundations in late-medieval England, and this historic legacy has been preserved and maintained over five centuries. The Choir, which now enjoys an international reputation as one of the finest ensembles in the UK, exists primarily to sing the daily church services in Magdalen College Chapel. The Academical Clerks now number 12 and the Consort of Voices was founded in 2010, offering opportunities to women students to sing in the Chapel on a weekly basis. In addition to the regular round of services, the College Choir sing at a number of special occasions throughout the year, including the famous May Day celebrations, an ancient tradition dating back to the 16th century. Famous directors of the Choir who have held the ancient title, Informator Choristarum still in use today, include John Sheppard, Daniel Purcell, Sir John Stainer and Dr Bernard Rose. The current Informator is Mark Williams.

The Choristers are part of the College Foundation, receiving their academic education at Magdalen College School. The Academical Clerks and Organ Scholars are undergraduates at the College, reading for degrees in a variety of subjects. In University Term, the Choir sings Evensong every day except Monday at 6pm. Services on Tuesdays are normally sung by the Choristers alone, on Fridays by the Academical Clerks alone, and on Saturdays by the Consort of Voices. The College Choir also sings the Eucharist (Mass) on Sunday mornings at 11am.

Magdalen College Choir has toured Japan, USA, Hungary, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Germany, France and Poland in recent years; concert appearances have included the BBC Proms and Cadogan Hall. The Choir has worked with a number of leading orchestras including Britten Sinfonia, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. In Oxford, they have collaborated with both composers and musicians in concert and on disc: recordings have included the music of John Ward and Thomas Tomkins with the celebrated viol group, Phantasm, and the work of the renowned composer of sacred music, Matthew Martin. They won a Gramophone award under former director Grayston Ives, and have collaborated with the film composer George Fenton, most notably in Richard Attenborough’s movie, Shadowlands, with the Beatles member Sir Paul McCartney, and on the award-winning soundtrack for the BBC TV series, Blue Planet.

Mark Williams
is Director of Music, Fellow and College Lecturer in Music at Jesus College Cambridge. He studied at Trinity College Cambridge where he held both the organ scholarship and an academic scholarship. In 2000, at the age of 21, he was appointed Assistant Organist of St Paul’s Cathedral in London and Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral School. He relinquished both posts in April of 2006 in order to pursue his growing freelance career. In September 2009 he took up the post of Director of Music at Jesus College Cambridge.

Mark Williams has appeared as organist and harpsichordist nationally and internationally with many of the UK’s leading ensembles, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia and the Gabrieli Consort and Players. As a conductor he has worked with the Britten Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, Saraband Consort and City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the Principal Conductor of the International William Byrd Festival in Portland Oregon and the Chief Guest Conductor of the City of London Choir, and has given solo recitals and led masterclasses in choral training, singing and organ performance in the UK, the USA, Asia and Africa. A Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, he is a Freeman of the City of London, and a trustee of the the Oundle Music Trust, Cambridge Early Music, the Harlton Organ Trust, the Muze Music Trust in Zambia and Songbound which aims to change the lives of underprivileged children in India through music. He is the Honorary President of the Chamber Choir of Erne Integrated College in Enniskillen.

In addition to writing and arranging music for the popular classical-crossover groups Blake and All Angels, Mark Williams has performed on a number of film soundtracks, and appears on CD with the Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cambridge Singers, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The King’s Consort, The Sixteen, Arcangelo and Retrospect Ensemble. He is the Musical Consultant for the television crime drama, Endeavour.

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