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The Gluepot Connection

Choral Music by Ireland, Rawsthorne, Warlock, Bax, Alan Bush, Lutyens, Walton & EJ Moeran

Londinium Chamber Choir, Andrew Griffiths

The Gluepot Connection

Tenuous links to alcohol apart, there is some fine music-making on this disc. A rapt performance of Peter Warlock’s The Full Heart opens it, the discomfiting harmonies and eerie suspensions...

The Gluepot Connection

Choral Music by Ireland, Rawsthorne, Warlock, Bax, Alan Bush, Lutyens, Walton & EJ Moeran

Londinium Chamber Choir, Andrew Griffiths

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Tenuous links to alcohol apart, there is some fine music-making on this disc. A rapt performance of Peter Warlock’s The Full Heart opens it, the discomfiting harmonies and eerie suspensions...

About

The Gluepot Connection celebrates the coming together of a generation of established and emerging composers who defined British music in the middle of the last century (and beyond) in a cornerstone of British life – the local pub. 'That bloody Gluepot' was the nickname given to The George public house in central London by Sir Henry Wood, exasperated that its proximity to the legendary Queen's Hall proved irresistible to his musicians. It also served as the watering hole for a coterie of composers whose wide-ranging influence rivalled that of their literary counterparts, the fabled Bloomsbury Set. Andrew Griffiths skilfully joins the dots of the Gluepot's tangled relationships and musical achievements with the Londinium chamber choir to present a vivid portrait of a moment unique in British music.

Contents and tracklist

4 Seasonal Songs: No. 1, Now the Earth, the Skies, the Air
Track length1:17
4 Seasonal Songs: No. 2, To the Spring
Track length1:51
4 Seasonal Songs: No. 3, Autumn
Track length2:52
4 Seasonal Songs: No. 4, Now the Lusty Spring Is Seen
Track length2:22
I Sing of a Maiden That Is Makeless, GP 266
Track length4:51
Like Rivers Flowing, Op. 44
Track length3:26
On Craig Ddu, RT IV / 2
Track length3:49
Songs of Springtime: No. 1, Under the Greenwood Tree
Track length1:17
Songs of Springtime: No. 2, The River-God's Song
Track length1:52
Songs of Springtime: No. 3, Spring, the Sweet Spring
Track length1:36
Songs of Springtime: No. 4, Love Is a Sickness
Track length3:40
Songs of Springtime: No. 5, Sigh No More, Ladies
Track length1:51
Songs of Springtime: No. 6, Good Wine
Track length1:30
Songs of Springtime: No. 7, To Daffodils
Track length3:12
Mater ora filium, GP 246
Track length10:55

Awards and reviews

June 2018


Tenuous links to alcohol apart, there is some fine music-making on this disc. A rapt performance of Peter Warlock’s The Full Heart opens it, the discomfiting harmonies and eerie suspensions evocatively registered by the 40 singers of the Londinium Chamber Choir.

September/October 2018

The Londinium Chamber Choir are a non- professional group; under Griffiths they are a force to be reckoned with, with even tone, impeccable intonation and a lively, yet nicely rounded, sound.
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