℗ 2018 Signum Records
Released | May 18, 2018 |
Duration | 1h 07m 22s |
Record Label | Signum Records |
Genre | Classical (Choral) |
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor
The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Mass in G Minor
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1.1
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Kyrie
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
4:38 | |||
1.2
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Gloria in excelsis
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
4:17 | |||
1.3
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Credo
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
6:52 | |||
1.4
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Sanctus – Osanna I – Benedictus – Osanna II
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
5:20 | |||
1.5
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Agnus Dei
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
4:40 | |||
1.6
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Te Deum in G Major
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
7:43 | |||
1.7
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O vos omnes
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
5:59 | |||
5 Mystical Songs
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1.8
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V. Antiphon
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
3:15 | |||
3 Preludes on Welsh Hill Tunes
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1.9
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II. Rhosymedre
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
4:39 | |||
1.10
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O Taste and See
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
1:45 | |||
1.11
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Prayer to the Father of Heaven
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
5:38 | |||
1.12
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O, Clap Your Hands
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
3:19 | |||
1.13
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Lord, Thou Hast Been our Refuge
Ralph Vaughan Williams; The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge |
9:17 |
"This is a very fine disc indeed. Andrew Nethsingha has chosen the music with great discernment and conducts it with evident commitment and understanding."
– Music Web International
Andrew Nethsingha and The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge mark the centenary of the 1918 Armistice with a new recording of choral works by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Many of the works were composed in the years immediately following the event, including "O clap your hands", "Lord, thou hast been our refuge" and the Mass in G minor which leads the programme.
Vaughan Williams turned his attention to liturgical music following his service as a wagon orderly during the Great War. Ursula Vaughan Williams, his second wife and biographer, wrote that such work ‘gave Ralph vivid awareness of how men died’. It is perhaps unsurprising that in many of the texts to which he turned after the 1918 Armistice, the fragility and weakness of humanity becomes a recurrent theme. Despite being described as a ‘confirmed atheist’ by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, his heightened exploration of Christian texts, symbols, and images after the War might rather be understood both as an attempt to grapple anew with what might lie, as he put it, ‘beyond sense and knowledge’, and to search for consolation in religious and other inherited traditions amid a world irrevocably changed.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Signum Records Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.20 -16.16 to -0.60 | -27.43 -37.13 to -21.75 | -22.37 -33.30 to -16.60 | 14 10 to 17 | |
1 | Kyrie | -3.35 | -30.73 | -24.8 | 17 |
2 | Gloria in excelsis | -3.02 | -26.60 | -20.5 | 14 |
3 | Credo | -3.70 | -27.16 | -21.0 | 13 |
4 | Sanctus – Osanna I – Benedictus – Osanna II | -2.97 | -27.70 | -21.7 | 14 |
5 | Agnus Dei | -6.67 | -32.58 | -26.8 | 14 |
6 | Te Deum in G Major | -0.60 | -23.52 | -19.4 | 15 |
7 | O vos omnes | -3.13 | -28.85 | -23.1 | 15 |
8 | V. Antiphon | -0.60 | -22.33 | -18.0 | 13 |
9 | II. Rhosymedre | -12.22 | -30.38 | -28.7 | 10 |
10 | O Taste and See | -16.16 | -37.13 | -33.3 | 12 |
11 | Prayer to the Father of Heaven | -0.60 | -24.11 | -19.4 | 14 |
12 | O, Clap Your Hands | -1.02 | -21.75 | -17.5 | 12 |
13 | Lord, Thou Hast Been our Refuge | -0.60 | -23.73 | -16.6 | 14 |