Caldwell: Good Friday Choir Opera Guild

Caldwell: Good Friday

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GM 7178

Caldwell: Good Friday

Label Catalogue Number:
GMCD7178

Running Time: 75:52

Release Date: July 2006
Originally recorded in 2006

Composer (b. 1938)
John Caldwell

Choral
Choir of Lincoln College Oxford

Conductor
Nicholas Chalmers

Orchestra
Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia

Conductor
Benjamin Nicholas

Venue
Exeter College Chapel, Oxford

Venue
St Silas The Martyr, Kentish Town, London

Producer
Michael Ponder

Engineer
K & A Productions Ltd

Genre:
Choir
Opera

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JOHN CALDWELL

(b. 1938)

Good Friday

75:54

Good Friday is an opera-oratorio based on the crucifixion narrative as told in the Gospel according to St John.

Scene 1: In the garden of Gethsemane: 14:11

'Reminiscere miserationum tuarum'

6:19

'By force and by law'

3:51

'Sciebat autem et Judas'

4:01

Scene II: In the palace of Caiaphas: 13:07

Interlude/'Sequabatur autem Jesum'

2:24

'Numquid'/'Aren't you another'

3:17

'Sir, this fellow said'

1:24

'The words are your own'

2:12

'Adducunt ergo Jesum'

3:50

Scene III: Inside and outside the Praetorium: 23:43

Organ solo

3:09

10.

'Erat autem mane'

5:13

11.

'Tune ergo apprehendit'

2:55

12.

'Exivit iterum Pilatus'

6:47

13.

'Et bajulans sibi crucem'

5:39

Scene IV: On Calvary: 24:51

14.

'Ubi crucifixerunt eum'

3:19

15.

'Popule meus' (1)

3:50

16.

'Stabat autem juxta Christi crucem'

1:48

17.

'Rex caelestis'

4:11

18.

'Popule meus' (2)

1:44

19.

'Ecce lignum'

2:37

20.

'Pange lingua'

7:22

Philip Gault - Celebrant/Jesus

Benedict Linton - Evangelista/John

Adam Tunnicliffe - Synagoga/James

Nick Berry - Christus/Peter

Rebeca Hewitt - Maid

Alister Whitford - Annas

Patrick Lord - Caiaphas

Douglas Murry - False Witness 1

John Cotton - False Witness 2

Alastair Merry - Pilate

Sophy Harford - Mary

Joanna Sherratt - Mary Magdalene

Rebecca Hewitt - Maria Jacobi

Choral: Choir of Lincoln College Oxford

Conductor: Nicholas Chalmers

Orchestra: Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia

With players fronm the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra:

Douglas Boyd oboe - Leila Ward cor anglais - Antony Pay clarinet - Duncan Swindells bass clarinet - Julie Price bassoon - Roger Clark horn

Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas

March and April 1999

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Reviews

"Not to be missed The Organ - 27 February 2000

CD CHOICE

Rick Jones - Evening Standard 23 March 2000

Above all, this is an emotionally convincing performance, tightly directed by Benjamin Nicholàs and well recorded." "WARMLY RECOMENDED"

Simon Heighs - International Records Review - April 2000

The Choir of Lincoln College, the Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, and soloists from the Royal Philharmonic link choral processionals which are raw settings of medieval. All is skilfully held together by the conductor, Benjamin Nicholas, who brings to this recording all the momentum of a live performance"
Hillary Finch - The Times - 18 April 2000

Record of the MONTH
"For something off the beaten track that is utterly compelling in its thrilling combination of the liturgical and dramatic, readers should urgently seek out John Caldwell’s Good Friday (Record of the Month). The natural generic successor to Britten’s canticles, Caldwell’s musical language achieves a Berg-like intensity on occasion, but it is the haunting reminiscences of everything from Brahms, Stravinsky and Walton to Gregorian Chant flowing effortlessly in and out of the music that leave the greatest impression. This reaches levels of almost Satie-like, vaudeville parody in the passage featuring Peter’s first denial, yet the overriding impression of this extraordinary work is a majestic nobility that – stylistic disparity aside – I found hauntingly reminiscent of Honegger’s Le roi David. Julian Haylock - Classics FM - August 2000

a veritable compulsory purchase. Michael Ball - Organist’s Review - August 2000

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