PROVOCATIVE THOUGHTS:
The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
Richard Allain: Choral Music
DCD34207 (Delphian, CD)
DDD
24-bit stereo
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 64'08"
Tracks: 14
Booklet pages: 16
© 2018 Delphian Records Ltd
Reviewer: Roderic Dunnett
Review of Richard Allain: Choral Music published on 6 February 2019
Listen: Richard Allain: If music be the food of love (track 4, 1:08-2:04)
Francesca Miller, soprano (track 3)
Patrick Keefe, bass (track 3)
Finn McEwan, soprano saxophone (track 9)
Choir of Merton College Oxford
Alex Little, organ (tracks 2, 3 and 14)
Tom Fetherstonhaugh, organ (tracks 5 an 11)
Benjamin Nicholas, conductor
Richard Allain:
1 A Perfect Friend (first recording)
The Norwich Service
2 Magnificat
3 Nunc dimittis
4 If music be the food of love (first recording)
5 Cana's Guest
6 The Magi's Gifts (first recording)
7 The Beloved (first recording)
8 Welcome, all wonders (first recording)
9 O Day-spring
10 Videte miraculum
11 A Prayer of St Richard of Chichester
12 Don't you weep when I am gone
13 God be in my head (first recording)
14 The Lord reigns (Psalm 93) (first recording)
Recorded 26-28 June 2017 in the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, UK