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Song collection Choral: 1958: Six Traditional Carols (Fourth Set) Unaccompanied SSA and SSSA voices: Choral: 1959 "A Jubilee Book of English Folk Songs" Unison voices and piano: Song collection Choral: 1959: Ten songs from John Wilson's Cheerfull Ayres and Ballads (1659) SSA voices: Instrumental: 1960: Fifty Bach tunes: Recorder: Arranged from ...
Imogen Clare Holst CBE (née von Holst; [1] 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. . The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festiv
Below is a sortable list of compositions by Gustav Holst. The works are categorized by genre, H. catalogue number (A Thematic Catalogue of Gustav Holst's Music by Imogen Holst, London, Faber Music Ltd., 1974), opus number, date of composition and title.
Oxford University Press published a full score of the Lyric Movement in 1948, a reduction for viola and piano by Imogen Holst in 1971, [5] and a revised edition of the full score in 1986. [19] A facsimile edition by Imogen Holst and Colin Matthews of Holst's original manuscript was published by Faber Music in 1977. [20]
Imogen Holst similarly writes that it is "as unlike conventional church music as it could possibly be". [40] The poet Peter Porter writes that Rejoice in the Lamb "enshrines some of the purest responses ever made by a musician to the very heart of that mystery which we know as poetry". [ 41 ]
Holst himself was proud of the work, calling it his "best thing". It was performed at Chichester Cathedral in 1934 when his ashes were buried there. [8] By 1937 it was being described as his best-known work; [11] it remains a choral favourite [12] and has often been called a small masterpiece.
Imogen Holst summarised the folk tunes which her father used in the score as follows: [4] John Playford, The English Dancing Master: 28 country dance tunes; Cecil Sharp, published editions: 4 morris tunes, 1 traditional country dance; Chappell, Popular Music of the Olden Time: 3 ballads; G. B. Gardiner, manuscript collection: 2 folksongs
Aside from sacred music sung mostly in choral evensong services, the choir also performs a wide range of music, including contemporary mass settings and choral works by Eleanor Alberga, Charles Stanford, Herbert Howells, and Imogen Holst, with the choir having recently sung the world première of Ed Nesbit's (one of the college composition ...