Ian Venables: Requiem | Howells: anthems for choir & orchestra Corrina Hewat Total playing time: 1:13:39

Total playing time: 1:13:39

Total playing time: 1:09:04

which includes works by Franck

This is yet another quite outstanding disc of the highest standard and a triumph for all those who placed faith in Benjamin Nicholas and Carleton Etherington

veers crazily between manic jazz and chordal Messiaen

Ian Venables: Requiem | Howells: anthems for choir & orchestra Corrina Hewat Total playing time: 1:13:39SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Conductor Benjamin Nicholas draws parallels between the familiar English choral sound of Howells and that of contemporary composer Ian Venables. Venables Requiem has already been warmly received by critics in a 2020 recording with just organ accompaniment. Now, Nicholas and his Merton College choir present it in an orchestrated version made specially for this recording. The Howells items here are also premiere