Oliver Lepage-Dean - An Evening Hymn: Music For Solo Treble
STYLE: Classical RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 7429- LABEL: Naxos 8557129 FORMAT: CD Album RRP: £5.99
Reviewed by Steven Whitehead
Oliver Lepage-Dean is the latest in a long line of distinguished singers to come from the choir of St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a pupil of David Lowe. In this recital of 25 songs he is accompanied by Christopher Whitton (organ) or Christopher Robinson (piano) and for Stanford’s “Magnificat In G” and Mendelssohn’s “Geistliches Lied” the Choir, directed by Robinson. John Rutter is the producer and between them they have made a splendid album. There is an interesting selection of sacred and secular material, ranging from Pelham Humfrey’s setting of John Donne’s “A Hymn To God The Father” to Richard Rodney Bennett’s “The Aviary”. The penultimate track is Britten’s setting of “Oliver Cromwell” which is an appropriate finale with its closing line of “If you want any more you can sing it yourself!” The closing song, by way of an encore, is George Gershwin’s beautiful “Love Walked In”. A genuine show-stopper.
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