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Fair Albion

Elin Manahan Thomas / Julian Lloyd Webber

Fair Albion

Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212017821
Catnr: SIGCD 178
Release date: 01 November 2009
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212017821
Catalogue number
SIGCD 178
Release date
01 November 2009
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About the album

In recent years, Patrick Hawes has emerged as one of the country’s most popular and inspirational composers. Born in Lincolnhire, he studied music as an organ scholar at Durham University, and soon went on to make an impact in the world of choral music. April 2009 saw the release of Patrick’s latest album Song of Songs which was made CD of the week on Classic FM.

“Patrick Hawes has carved out a niche as a contemporary composer who writes melodic, atmospheric and, frankly, beautiful music” - The Gramophone

Prachtige en sfeervolle beelden van Engeland

Patrick Hawes wordt sinds korte tijd gerekend tot de populairste en meest inspirerende Engelse componisten. Na zijn studie maakte hij al snel indruk op de wereld van de koormuziek met The Wedding at Cana. De wereldpremière van zijn Lazarus Requiem in 2008, die volgde op zijn tijd als huiscomponist van Classic FM, vormde een mijlpaal in zijn carrière. The Gramophone schreef over hem: “Patrick Hawes has carved out a niche as a contemporary composer who writes melodic, atmospheric and, frankly, beautiful music.”

Hawes schreef over zijn album: “De inspiratie voor mijn muziek is afkomstig uit drie essentiële gebieden – mijn Schepper, mijn geliefden en mijn land. Engelsman zijn opent de deur naar een fantastisch rijk erfgoed, een fascinerende geschiedenis, prachtige architectuur en ongelooflijk mooie landschappen en zeelandschappen. (…) De werken op dit album zijn allen beelden van Engeland, die doelen op het weergeven van een bepaald gebouw of omgeving, of spreken van een algemenere verering van het land en zijn erfgoed. Ik heb woorden van enkele van onze grote dichters gekozen, die op hun eigen manier belangrijke karakterschetsen van het Engeland waarin zij leefden vingen.”

Artist(s)

Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)

Born and bred in Swansea, before graduating from Clare College Cambridge in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Elin is fast coming to light as one of Wales’s leading young sopranos. In 2007 she released her début album with Universal Classics and Jazz, Eternal Light, which entered the classical charts at number two. Elin is the first singer ever to record Bach’s Alles mit Gott, a birthday ode written in 1713 and discovered in 2005. Elin made her début at the Lincoln Center New York and the San Francisco Symphony Hall with the Mozart Requiem in 2006, and the Birmingham Symphony Hall with the Fauré Requiem; and she was the subject of an S4C flyon-the-wall documentary which was nominated in the 2007...
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Born and bred in Swansea, before graduating from Clare College Cambridge in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Elin is fast coming to light as one of Wales’s leading young sopranos. In 2007 she released her début album with Universal Classics and Jazz, Eternal Light, which entered the classical charts at number two. Elin is the first singer ever to record Bach’s Alles mit Gott, a birthday ode written in 1713 and discovered in 2005. Elin made her début at the Lincoln Center New York and the San Francisco Symphony Hall with the Mozart Requiem in 2006, and the Birmingham Symphony Hall with the Fauré Requiem; and she was the subject of an S4C flyon-the-wall documentary which was nominated in the 2007 Celtic Film Festival. She first received great acclaim for her ‘Pie Jesu’ on Naxos’ awardwinning recording of the Rutter Requiem, and was praised as soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. 2007 saw her perform in Classic FM’s fifteenth birthday concert, at Songs of Praise’s ‘The Big Sing’ at the Royal Albert Hall, at the Westminster Abbey Christmas Concert; and in 2008 Elin performed the World Première of Sir John Tavener’s Requiem in Liverpool Cathedral (also recorded for EMI) and made her début at the Wigmore Hall in the role of Belinda (Dido and Aeneas) for Paul McCreesh. Elin studied as a post-graduate at the Royal College of Music, and was awarded the Ted Moss and Bertha Stach-Taylor Lieder Prize. In 2005 she was a finalist in the prestigious Joaninha Award. Future projects include the Songs of Praise Messiah special from Birmingham Town Hall; a British tour of recitals with the Academy of Ancient Music; Harvey Passion and Resurrection at the Casa de Musica, Porto; an anniversary concert for the RWCMD in Llandaff Cathedral; Mendelssohn Elijah in St David’s Hall with BBC NOW; Bach St John Passion with Stephen Layton in St John Smith’s Square; Rutter Mass for the Children in Cadogan Hall; performances in the Edinburgh Festival; and a recording of Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri with the Purcell Quartet
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