Rhian Lois, Alessandro Fisher, Morgan Pearse, Samantha Price
BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Adrian Partington
Stanford's large-scale setting of the Te Deum op. 66 was first sung at the Leeds Festival on October 6, 1898, and its ambitious, opulent dimensions were clearly intended as a fitting commemoration of the accession of Queen Victoria (the dedicatee) sixty years earlier, as well as a tribute to the Leeds Choir with its 350 singers. A particular feature of the Te Deum is the grandeur of much of the choral writing. Although also dramatic in its effect, a dominant feature of the Te Deum is the prominent use of the chorus and the many full-bodied sounds that Stanford was able to elicit from the magnificent 'instrument' of Leeds voices.
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Te Deum op.66
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