Holst: I Vow to Thee, My Country

Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea;
Vann, William

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SOMM RECORDINGS announces the release of I Vow to Thee, My Country, believed to be the first recording to feature all of Gustav Holst’s sacred choral music, by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea directed by William Vann, with organist Joshua Ryan and Richard Horne on tubular and bass bells.

A prolific composer best known for his orchestral spectacular The Planets, Holst was an expressive and sincere composer and arranger of religious music despite his professed agnosticism.

Works:

• Holst: All People That on Earth Do Dwell
• Holst: Ave Maria, H49, Op. 9b
• Holst: Christ Hath a Garden, H 167
• Holst: Eternal Father, H. 169
• Holst: Festival Choruses (3), Op. 36a, H. 134
• Holst: Hymns (3) for the English Hymnal, H. 73
• Holst: I Vow to Thee, My Country
• Holst: Man born to toil
• Holst: Not Unto Us, O Lord, H. 22
• Holst: Nunc dimittis, H127
• Holst: Our Blest Redeemer 'Essex'
• Holst: Short Festival Te Deum, H145
• Holst: The Coming of Christ
• Holst: Two Psalms H117

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SOMM Recordings

06-12-2022

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