Mathias: Lux Aeterna Orchestral & Concertos Choir Chandos

Mathias: Lux Aeterna

CHAN 8695

Mathias: Lux Aeterna

Running Time: 56:00

Digital UPC: 5059864869532
CD UPC: 0095115869529

Release Date: March 1998
Originally recorded in February 1984

Composer
William Mathias

Soprano Voice soprano
Dame Felicity Lott

Solo mezzo-soprano
Margaret Cable

Solo contralto
Penelope Walker

Solo Organ organ
John Scott (organist)

Choral
Bach Choir

Choral
Choristers of St George`s Chapel

Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor
Sir David Willcocks

Venue
All Saints' Church, Tooting, London

Producer
Brian Couzens

Engineer
Ralph Couzens

Engineer (Assistant)
Bill Todd

Genre:
Orchestral & Concertos
Choir

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The sound quality is outstandingly good. The ample resonance of All Saint’s Church, Tooting, South London, adds a glorious richness to the sound, with exceptionally natural balance and perspectives - yet, at the same time there is excellent clarity of detail and separation between the various groups involved and the recording has no difficulty in handling the wide dynamic range of Mathia’s complex scoring, with its extensive use of tuned percussion A wonderful record. G H Lewis - Welsh Music - Summer 1990

Sir David dominates the preceedings with sovereign grace. His choirs sing gorgeously, the boy sopranosbeing especially praiseworthy for their open-throated vigor and palpable humanity. The soloists are radiant of voice and authoritative of enunciation A thoughtful, sincere, and welcome contribution to the world’s general clutter, this requiem mass should in time take a place of honour beside the equally unorthodox musical structures of Brahms and Britten. David Claris - Fanfare - January/Febrary 1990

Each and every one of the participants in this undertaking - from conuctor Willcocks to sound engineer Ralph Couzens - does his or her necessary part in fusing the myriad components of Mathias’ teeming/aural imagination into a single entity, and all are to be commended in the highest terms. They help make this alternatively explosive and diaphanous, seraphic and boisterous, always elegant and handsome work a significant addition to that great and growing body of 20th-century English choral masterpieces. PS - Fanfare - July/August 1985

the confidence of the writing makes the work far more than derivative, an approachable and colourful piece, full of memorable ideas, especially in this excellent performance, beautifully sung and played and atmospherically balanced. The Penguin Complete Guide

It is a full, wide-ranging recording and one admires the wholehearted commitment of all concerned to Mathias’s music MK - Gramophone - November 1989

not to be missed is the Britten inspired Mathias: Lux Aeterna. This noble work is most sensitively interpreted by the Bach Choir and LSO forces under Sir David Willcocks. Especially memorable is the overlapping of the Chorus, the Boys Chorus and the Soloists - including Felcity Lott - in the great prayer for eternal light and Mathias’ vision of the Holy Trinity. Hedley Berry - Classical Express - October 1989

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