Requiem: Psalm 121 - Herbert Howells, John Rutter, Andrew Gant, Charles Pott, The Cambridge Singers
13. 'Requiem: Psalm 121'
From the album ‘Stanford and Howells Remembered’
Composer Herbert Howells
Conductor John Rutter
Tenor Andrew Gant
Bass Charles Pott
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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LYRICS:
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills: from whence cometh my help. My help
cometh even from the Lord: who hath made heaven and earth. He will not suffer
thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee will not sleep. Behold, he that
keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord himself is thy keeper:
he is thy defence upon thy right hand; so that the sun shall not burn thee by day:
neither the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: yea, it is
even he that shall keep thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy
coming in: from this time forth and for evermore.
Requiem
This haunting and beautiful work for unaccompanied double choir only became known in 1980 when the composer released it for publication. It was at first believed that Howells began work on it after the sudden death of his nine-year-old son Michael, from spinal meningitis in 1935, but later research by Christopher Palmer, established that the earliest sketches predate this loss by some three years.
Stanford and Howells Remembered
This recording is a choral tribute to the sacred music of two visionary composers: Stanford and Howells, who, among their other achievements, made distinctive, lasting and much-cherished contributions to the musical repertory of the English Church.
John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.
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