- James Whitbourn
Winter's Wait (2010)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
- org
- SATB
- 4 min
- Robert Tear
- English
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.
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.
1st November 2011
Discography
Living Voices
- LabelNaxos
- Catalogue Number8.572737
- ConductorJames Jordan
- EnsembleWestminster Williamson Voices
- Released1st September 2011