HAVPCD349 – Salve Puerule
HAVPCD349 – Salve Puerule
Release Date: 10th December 2008
Mail Order Only – from Record Corner or info@codadistribution.co.uk
A Wonderful new Christmas release featuring Andrew Swait, The Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir, Alexander Ffinch and conducted by Stephen Jackson.
Conceived as a showcase for the abilities of the accomplished treble Andrew Swait, this disc is framed by settings of the first great canticle from the service of Evensong. The Magnificat (1) from the evening service in G by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852..1924) was written in 1902 and needs little introduction. Its Marian imagery is heightened by an extended ethereal solo, lightly punctuated by the choir, together with the employment of a staccato accompaniment cast as a perpetuum mobile of quavers, whose Schubertian figuration immediately evokes the image of a spinning wheel and the industrious, untroubled girl singing to her Lord.
