A Sound of Singing Fills the Air: Vocal Score

ISBN-13: 9780193413887 / Angielski

Malcolm Archer

Recenzje

Here are two tuneful carols that choirs will enjoy singing [this and Alan Bullard: Shepherds, guarding your flocks]. The texts may be unfamiliar, but are set in a most sensitive way, as you would expect from both these composers. It is particularly good to discover the poem by Timothy Dudley-Smith used in the Malcolm Archer piece. This gentle carol starts with sopranos in verse 1, four-part harmony unaccompanied in verse 2, tenors and basses in verse 3 and full choir, then descant and organ combine in the last verse reaching a fortissimo climax before the carol ends quietly.

O autorze

Malcolm Archer was educated at King Edward VII School, Lytham, the Royal College of Music, and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was organ scholar. He studied the organ with Ralph Downes, Gillian Weir, and Nicolas Kynaston, and composition with Herbert Sumsion and Alan Ridout. He is a prolific composer with well over 200 published works, which receive regular performances on BBC radio and TV. Archer was formerly Organist and Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral and is now Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College.