Nicholas Morris, the organist on this album, was a chorister at Westminster Abbey and held the Organ Scholarship at Queens' College, Cambridge, before becoming Assistant Organist at Birmingham Cathedral.
Performer Biography
The Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir is an auditioned group of twenty-four student singers known for their musicianship and increasing recording presence, specializing in 20th and 21st-century British music.
Compositional Technique
A notable thread through all the works on this album is the use of choral and ensemble unisons, transforming a humble, sometimes folkish expressiveness into the divine through counterpoint.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The composers on this album, Vaughan Williams, Holst, and Howells, were not conventionally religious; their 'visionary feeling' stemmed from a broad, intense spirituality rather than specific religious leanings.
Performer Biography
Paul Spicer, the director of the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, is a renowned choral conductor, composer, and author, having written biographies of Herbert Howells and Sir George Dyson.
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