Special offer. Sword in the Soul
Grier - Elgar - Bednall - Park
Samantha Bond (narrator), James Orford, Simon Callow (narrator), Brian O'Kane, Adrian Peacock (narrator), Samuel Pantcheff, Alison Ponsford-Hill, London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
this modern-day Passion is powerful, and crying out for regular performance...Grier’s Brittenish ear for melodies that sound inevitable even when they are far from it, his elegant astringency...
Special offer. Sword in the Soul
Grier - Elgar - Bednall - Park
Samantha Bond (narrator), James Orford, Simon Callow (narrator), Brian O'Kane, Adrian Peacock (narrator), Samuel Pantcheff, Alison Ponsford-Hill, London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
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this modern-day Passion is powerful, and crying out for regular performance...Grier’s Brittenish ear for melodies that sound inevitable even when they are far from it, his elegant astringency...
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"In an album that includes world-premiere recordings, Michael Waldron and the London Choral Sinfonia perform Francis Grier’s modern-day Passion, Sword in the Soul, to texts by Rowan Williams narrated by Simon Callow, Samantha Bond and Adrian Peacock. Alongside Grier’s Sword in the Soul, we hear Lux Eterna, the profoundly moving choral setting of Elgar’s famous ‘Nimrod’ from his Enigma Variations, as well as a rarely-heard piece by Elgar recorded only once before: the intensely poignant We Will Remember Them, a beautiful and simple a cappella arrangement of a famous text. The album also features music by contemporary composer David Bednall, and LCS’s Composer in Residence Owain Park."
Contents and tracklist
- Samantha Bond (narrator), James Orford, Simon Callow (narrator), Brian O'Kane, Adrian Peacock (narrator), Samuel Pantcheff
- London Choral Sinfonia
- Michael Waldron
- Alison Ponsford-Hill
- London Choral Sinfonia
- Michael Waldron
- London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron, London Choral Sinfonia
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Michael Waldron on Sword in the Soul
22nd May 2023
Conductor Michael Waldron shares some of his thoughts on Francis Grier's contemporary Passion oratorio 'Sword in the Soul', which he conducts on a new recording with the London Choral Sinfonia alongside works by Park, Bednall and Elgar.
Awards and reviews
May 2023
this modern-day Passion is powerful, and crying out for regular performance...Grier’s Brittenish ear for melodies that sound inevitable even when they are far from it, his elegant astringency and sobriety burst out into vast, shattering climaxes.
