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May 12, 2015 · Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem; Stephen Hough: Missa Mirabilis. Sarah Fox / Christopher Maltman / Andrew Litton / Colorado Symphony Orchestra. AllMusic Rating. User Rating (0) Your Rating. STREAM OR BUY: Release Date. May 12, 2015. Duration. 54:39. Genre. Classical. Styles. Choral. Recording Date. March 26, 2014 - March 30, 2014.
Dona nobis pacem became a somewhat unexpected hit for Vaughan Williams. A fervently anti-war plea from the heart composed in 1936 as a pièce d’occasion for the Huddersfield Choral Society, it remains to this day one of the composer’s most widely performed works.
Vaughan Williams—Dona nobis pacem / Hough—Missa Mirabilis. Aailable from 5 May 2015 on Hyperion Records (Downloads - mp3, ALAC, FLAC / CD) http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc....
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Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem is a work that wastes no time cutting to the quick, and nor does this performance of it: in the opening Agnus Dei soprano Sarah Fox is immediately intense and focused, the Colorado Symphony coiled and ready to spring on the explosive tutti that rips forth from the softer textures
Dona nobis pacem (English: Grant us peace) is a cantata written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1936 and first performed on 2 October of that year. The work was commissioned to mark the centenary of the Huddersfield Choral Society. Vaughan Williams produced his plea for peace by referring to recent wars during the growing fears of a new ...
Thankfully Hyperion leave a long gap at the end of Dona nobis pacem before the beginning of the Stephen Hough Mass. Composed in 2006 for Westminster Cathedral, the Missa Mirabilis was orchestrated in 2012 and that is the version performed here.
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