David Hill: Ikon - Howells: Sine nomine & other secular choral works [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 7128476
Barcode: 034571284767
Release Date: 03 Oct 2025
Genre: Classical

For many listeners, Herbert Howells’s choral output will always be associated with his sizeable and significant contribution to the Anglican tradition, but his settings of secular texts should not be overlooked. This album offers a welcome introduction to these, including two works newly arranged for this recording by pianist Iain Farrington.
 
Tracklist:
Howells/Farrington: King David 
Howells: A Maid peerless 
Howells: Walking in the snow, ‘I was in the far woods’ 
Howells: Good counsel, ‘Fly from the press, and dwell with soothfastness’ 
Howells: Inheritance, ‘O lovely England, whose ancient peace’ 
Howells: The scribe, ‘What lovely things Thy hand hath made’ 
Howells: A New Year Carol, ‘Here we bring new water from the well so clear’ 
Howells/Farrington: Sine nomine, Op 37 
Howells: The summer is coming 
Howells: Irish wren song, ‘The wren, the wren, the king of all birds’ 
Howells: The shadows, ‘O herdsman, driving your small twilight flock’ 
Howells: Creep afore ye gang, ‘Creep awa’, my bairnie, creep afore ye gang’ 
Howells: Before me, careless lying 
Howells: In youth is pleasure, ‘In a harbour grene aslepe whereas I lay’