Elgar: The Reeds by Severn Side / Vann, Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

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SOMM Recordings
Release Date
April 29, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Edward Elgar
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Chapel Choir Of The Royal Hospital Chelsea
    • PERFORMER
      Joshua Ryan, William Vann
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 29, 2022
    • UPC
      748871327825
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 278
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Gloria

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    2. Credo (after L. van Beethoven's symphonies)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    3. Hear Thy Children, Gentle Jesus

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    4. O salutaris hostia No. 3

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    5. Ave verum corpus, Op. 2, No. 1

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    6. Ave Maria, Op. 2, No. 2

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    7. Ave maris stella, Op. 2, No. 3

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    8. Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op. 30: As Torrents in Summer

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    9. 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 1. There is Sweet Music

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    10. Psalm 68, "Let God Arise and Let His Enemies Be Scattered"

      Composer: Henry Lawes, Edward Elgar, Charles Hylton Stewart, Henry Thomas Smart

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    11. Angelus, Op. 56

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    12. They are at rest

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    13. O hearken Thou, Op. 64

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    14. Give unto the Lord, Op. 74, "Psalm 29" (version for choir and organ)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    15. Fear not, O Land

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann

    16. I Sing the Birth

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    17. Goodmorrow

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Conductor: William Vann

    18. Queen Alexandra Memorial Ode, "So many true princesses who have gone"

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

      Performer: Joshua Ryan

      Conductor: William Vann


SOMM Recordings announces the release of The Reeds by Severn Side, a ravishing collection of choral works by Edward Elgar, sung by the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, led by director William Vann, accompanied by organist Joshua Ryan. Of the 18 featured works, six are first recordings. They traverse Elgar’s remarkable ascension from lowly lawyer’s clerk to self-taught composer to Master of the King’s Musick. And chart the impeccable fusing of his Roman Catholic heritage with the Anglican church tradition to which he contributed several masterpieces. They also reveal what Vaughan Williams described as the “mystery and [the] miracle” of Elgar’s flowering into the music laureate of Edwardian England, as Andrew Neill, former Chairman of the Elgar Society, observes in his authoritative booklet notes.

Alongside juvenilia such as the 16-year-old Elgar’s Credo on Themes from Symphonies 5, 7 and 9 by Beethoven (in James Olsen’s completion) and Drake’s Broughton, to which the 73-year-old composer would return in his Nursery Suite, are diverse works that reveal growing confidence, including early settings of the Mass and first recordings (in English) of the Op.2 trilogy: Jesu, word of God Incarnate; Jesu, Lord of Life and Glory; Jesu, Meek and Lowly. The masterpiece bitonal setting of Tennyson, There is Sweet Music, one of Elgar’s self-described “choral songs”, is a highlight, alongside twin peaks of his anthem writing: O Hearken Thou (heard as the Latin motet, Intende voci orationis meae) and substantial Give Unto the Lord. William Vann and the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea’s previous SOMM releases include In Remembrance, described by Gramophone as “almost unbearably moving”, and as “an album that will have enduring value into the future” by MusicWeb International. Carols from Chelsea was a Best Classical Christmas Release, praised for its “model singing”, in The Guardian.