Lighten Our Darkness: Illuminating Choral Evensong
Raven announces a new two-DVD recording from Fugue State Films, Lighten Our Darkness: Illuminating Choral Evensong (FSFDVD-019, $39.95), a nearly five-hour documentary exploring choral Evensong. Locations include St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas; the cathedrals of Salisbury, Winchester, Truro, St. Patrick’s (Dublin), Guildford, Chester, and Blackburn; New College, Oxford; Trinity and St. John’s, Cambridge; Birmingham University; Rugby School; Methodist College, Belfast; as well as establishments in Grantham, Bath, Sheffield, Lincoln, Bolton Abbey, the Netherlands, and elsewhere.
Music in the film includes works by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell, Stainer, Parry, Stanford, Noble, Howells, Britten, Rutter, Chilcott, Sietze de Vries, Hugh Morris, Philip Stopford, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Alexander L’Estrange, and others. Comments and interviews include John Rutter, Katherine Dienes-Williams, Bob Chilcott, David Hill, Jeremy Begbie, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Andrew Nethsingha, Elizabeth Stratford, and Christopher Gray. Host of the BBC weekday evening classical music program, Relaxing Evenings, Zeb Soanes, narrates.
For information: ravencd.com.
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