• org
  • SATB
  • 4 min

Programme Note

Winter's Wait was written for the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and is a setting of a modern poem by Robert Tear, a close friend whose death came just days before the present recording took place. Its melody shares its tonality with Peter Abelard's beautiful hymn O quanta qualia, but it bursts into the major for the final stanza.

Media

Winter's Wait

Reviews

The ideas and organ part are, as expected, simple and effective. The whole work has the flavour of a French Noël and will make good choral society material as well as being suitable for liturgical use.
John Henderson, Organists' Review
1st December 2011
[This] deserves to be popular. Through relatively simple means it evokes a haunting winter atmosphere transformed dramatically in C major for the final verse.
Rupert Gough, Choir & Organ
1st November 2011

Discography

Living Voices

Living Voices
  • Label
    Naxos
  • Catalogue Number
    8.572737
  • Conductor
    James Jordan
  • Ensemble
    Westminster Williamson Voices
  • Released
    1st September 2011