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This Have I Done For My True Love - Holst: Partsongs (2004)

Posted By: peotuvave

Date: 12 Mar 2015 07:26:34

Most of this disc is for fans of Holst only – after all, how many almost unaccompanied part songs can any human being stand? – but on at least one song, this disc is for every spiritual human being on the planet. O Spiritual Pilgrim, Holst's setting of six lines from the "Fourth Song of The Gates of Damascus," was one of his last works and its purity is as sublime as its text. While anyone but a Holst fan will lose interest in this disc before the Choral Folk Songs (6) at its end – after all, how many superbly sung and lovingly performed part songs can any human being stand? – anyone with an immortal soul should hear O Spiritual Pilgrim. There have been very few recordings of the part songs of Holst and none that can equal this 1993 recording by the Holst Singers directed by Stephen Layton. Whether it's the early Ave Maria, the evocative Two Eastern Pictures, the quaint This Have I Done for My True Love, or the transcendent O Spiritual Pilgrim, Layton and the Singers are equal to the music. And being equal to the music that sets the text that closes O Spiritual Pilgrim is as much as one can ask of any human being: "And God shall make thy body pure, and give thee knowledge to endure this ghost-life's piercing phantom-pain, and bring thee to life again." Hyperion's sound is warm and a little too close.

Composer: Gustav Holst
Performer: Victoria Simmonds, Harriet Webb, Ruth Parker, Joanna Gamble, …
Conductor: Stephen Layton
Orchestra/Ensemble: Holst Singers

Reviews: For an object lesson in economy of means look no further than the magical setting of "Terly Terlow" accompanied by oboe and cello (from the Carols, H91). The richness of this music belies such meagre resources and while the Hoist Singers produce a warmth of tone and range of expression which brings out every ounce of beauty from the song, it is a testament to Holst's skill that this, and its similarly scored companion "A Welcome Song", sound so full bodied and complete.

Part-songs, of which this single disc can only offer a representative selection, were in many ways central to Holst's output. The earliest dates from 1896, the latest (Holst's last choral composition O Spiritual Pilgrim) from 1933. During this period he passed from being a student, a touring orchestral musician and a girls' school teacher into the realms of international acclaim as the composer of The Planets (a fascinating pre-echo of the closing bars of "Neptune" is found in The Princess where a second choir is placed in an adjoining room so that a door can gradually be closed to create a fade-out effect). The styles and influences are as multifarious as were the choirs and singers for whom the songs were written.

The Holst Singers cope with such unerring conviction with the particular technical and musical demands, which such diversity within short, compact structures places on any single choir. Their beautifully pure sound easily moulds itself to the character of each song, while Stephen Layton's unfussy, tightly controlled direction keeps everything perfectly in proportion. Diction (not least in the Welsh language song "Mae'n ghariad in Fenws, mae'n ghariad i'n fain") is natural and clear, without ever obscuring the fluidity of Hoist's musical lines. Above all, they convey a sense of involvement in each song which makes this disc a joy to listen through without interruption.

Tracklisting:

[1] Ave Maria, H49 (Op.9b)
[2] Of one that is so fair and bright, H130 (Op.34 No.3)
[3] A Welcome Song, (No.1 of 'Two Carols'), H91
[4] Jesu, Thou the Virgin-born, (No.3 of 'Four Old English Carols'), H82 (Op.20b)
[5] Terly terlow, (No.2 of 'Two Carols'), H91
[6] Lullay my liking, H129 (Op.34 No.4)
[7] Bring us in good ale, H131 (Op.34 No.4)
[8] Diverus and Lazarus, H137
[9] This have I done for my true love, H128 (Op.34 No.1)
[10]-[15] Songs from 'The Princess', H80 (Op.20a)
[16] O spiritual pilgrim, H188
[17] Mae 'nghariad i'n Fenws (No.9 of 'Twelve Welsh Folk Songs), H183
[18]-[19] Two Eastern Pictures, H112
[20] Light leaves whisper, H20
[21] In youth is pleasure, H76
[22]-[27] Six Choral Folk Songs, H136 (Op.36b)

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