The Music of Richard Pantcheff, Vol. 1: Choral Music

Featuring

Jeremy Cole
Michael Waldron
Matthew Fletcher
Charlotte Ashley
Nick Pritchard
London Choral Sinfonia

Richard Pantcheff

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Richard Pantcheff's compositions are often considered to be in a lineage stretching from English choral composers like Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Howells, and Britten.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded at St Mark's Church, Regents Park, London, over four days in January 2015.

Composition History

Two substantial settings of Evening Canticles by Richard Pantcheff on this album were commissioned for major British cathedrals: Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

Composer Biography

Richard Pantcheff, the composer of the choral music on this album, was mentored in composition by Benjamin Britten during the last years of Britten's life.

Composition History

Richard Pantcheff's 'King Henry VIII's Apologia' was commissioned in 1996 by Christ Church, Oxford, to honor the 450th anniversary of the college's foundation, using a text attributed to King Henry VIII himself.

Compositional Technique

The 'Four Poems of Stephen Crane' by Richard Pantcheff, though secular, explore deep questions about humanity's relationship with God, with a brazen and direct harmonic writing that has been likened to Michael Tippett.

Composition History

Richard Pantcheff's 'What shall we offer Thee?' was not commissioned but written purely in response to the text, reflecting the composer's family connection to Greek culture and history.