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In Remembrance

10/26/2018, 17 Tracks, 1:20:27

Featuring

  • William Vann
  • Leah Jackson
  • Gareth John
  • Hugh Rowlands
  • James Orford
  • Katy Hill
  • Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
  • Chelsea Pensioners' Choir
  • John Ireland
  • Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
  • Douglas Guest
  • Edward Elgar
  • Charles Harris
  • Gustav Holst
  • Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Ian Venables

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Recording & Production

This album features the first recording of Ian Venables' Requiem aeternam and Iain Farrington's arrangements of Gustav Holst's Ode to Death and Gabriel Fauré's Requiem.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The album's front cover features 'Over the Top', a painting by John Nash depicting the 1st Artists' Rifles at Marcoing in 1917, held by the Imperial War Museum.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

William Vann, the director of the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, is the 16th holder of the Organist and Director of Music post since 1692.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Gareth Brynmor John, a baritone featured on this album, won the Kathleen Ferrier Award and studied at St John's College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea is one of the finest professional church choirs in the UK, with members regularly singing with leading consort groups like The Sixteen and Tallis Scholars.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

The album was released in the centenary year of the end of the First World War and on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War.

Source: Booklet

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