In the Beginning Hubert Parry "Graceful singing from a fine

"Graceful singing from a fine British cast — Sophie Bevan outstanding

unembellished and wholly uplifting

Pelham Humfrey was part of a generation of musicians who enriched the musical life of their native England with influences drawn from continental Europe - from France

were his creation – a very personal collection

In the Beginning Hubert Parry "Graceful singing from a fineSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. Its debut recording bookended by Gabriel Jacksons ravishing version of the rarely set Johannine Prologue and Coplands glowing account of the first seven days of creation makes inventive play with the theme of beginnings and endings, in a sequence of Renaissance and modern works that reflects the range and reach of