A Garland for Linda
2000 studio album by Various Artists
A Garland for Linda | |
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Studio album by Various Artists | |
Released | 25 April 2000 |
Recorded | 10 August – 26 October 1999 |
Studio | All Saints Church, London |
Genre | Choral music |
Length | 55:11 |
Label | EMI |
Producer | John Fraser |
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Allmusic | [1] |
A Garland for Linda is a tribute album for Linda McCartney, released in 2000 by the cancer-fighting organization the Garland Appeal. The album features choral music by ten contemporary composers including her husband Paul McCartney, John Rutter and John Tavener; and is performed by the Joyful Company of Singers under the conductor Peter Broadbent.
Track listing
- "Silence and Music" (Ralph Vaughan Williams) – 4:50
- From "A Garland for the Queen" of 1953, the year of her coronation.
- "Prayer for the Healing of the Sick" (John Tavener) – 8:53
- From a text by Mother Thekla found in the "Russian Orthodox Service of Holy Unction".
- "Water Lilies" (Judith Bingham) – 7:35
- Written in March 1999, drawing on the composer's experience of swimming.
- "Musica Dei Donum" (John Rutter) – 5:36
- From a solo chorus text of 1594.
- "The Doorway of the Dawn" (David Matthews) – 4:53
- Write about Linda's qualities and feelings.
- "Nova" (Paul McCartney) – 6:28
- Written from November 1998 to May 1999.
- "I Dream'd" (Roxanna Panufnik) – 3:30
- Arrangement for a cappella chorus of a work.
- "Farewell" (Michael Berkeley) – 3:30
- From fragments of literary ideas by John Milton, William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Speller.
- "The Flight of the Swan" (Giles Swayne) – 6:16
- Inspired by the death of James Manson, son of a close friend of the author, in 1996 from brain cancer.
- "A Good-Night" (Richard Rodney Bennett) – 2:51
- From a poem by Francis Quarles.
Personnel
The Joyful Company of Singers
- Claire Hills: soprano
- Katherine Willis: soprano
- Henrietta Hillman: alto
- Fiona Robinson: alto
- Lorna Youngs: alto
- Paul Zimmerman: tenor
- Alex Hayes: tenor
- Michael King: bass
- Greg Masters: bass
- Chris E. Williams: bass
- Peter Broadbent: conductor
References
- ^ A Garland for Linda at AllMusic
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