Paul Mealor: A Tender Light

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This is certainly not a recording of Ubi Caritas spin-offs...Tenebrae directed by Nigel Short pull out all the vocal stops at the right moments...Mealor has finally found his true compositional... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 More…

Release Date: 14th Nov 2011
Catalogue No: 2781149
Label: Decca
Length: 69 minutes

Mealor: Four Madrigals On Rose Texts: Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal

Work length12:52

$3.40

$4.60

Paul Mealor, James Day (participant)
Tenebrae
Nigel Short
Recorded: 2011-07-11
Recording Venue: St Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal

Track length3:17

$0.85

$1.15

Lady, When I Behold the Roses Sprouting

Track length3:14

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$1.15

Upon a Bank

Track length1:38

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A Spotless Rose

Track length4:43

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$1.15

Mealor: She Walks In Beauty

Work length4:47

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$1.15

Paul Mealor, James Day (participant)
Tenebrae
Nigel Short
Recorded: 2011-07-11
Recording Venue: St Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

Mealor: O Vos Omnes

Work length5:16

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$1.15

Paul Mealor, James Day (participant), Joseph Cooper (bells), Grace Davidson (soprano), Nick Madden (tenor)
Tenebrae
Nigel Short
Recorded: 2011-07-11
Recording Venue: St Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

Mealor: Stabat Mater

Work length23:23

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$4.60

Paul Mealor, James Day (participant), Grace Davidson (soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tenebrae
Nigel Short
Recorded: 2011-07-11
Recording Venue: St Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

Movement 1

Track length7:02

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$1.15

Movement 2

Track length6:07

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$1.15

Movement 3

Track length4:30

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Movement 4

Track length5:44

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Mealor: Salvator Mundi - Greater Love

Work length6:17

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Paul Mealor, James Day (participant), Grace Davidson (soprano), Martha Mclorinan (mezzo-soprano), Nick Madden (tenor), Gabriel Crouch (baritone)
Tenebrae
Nigel Short
Recorded: 2011-07-11
Recording Venue: St Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

Mealor: Locus Iste

Work length6:28

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$1.15

Paul Mealor, James Day (participant), Grace Davidson (soprano)
Tenebrae
Nigel Short
Recorded: 2011-07-11
Recording Venue: St Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

Mealor: Ave Maria

Work length6:59

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$1.15

Paul Mealor, James Day (participant)
Tenebrae
Nigel Short
Recorded: 2011-07-11
Recording Venue: St Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

Mealor: Ubi caritas

Work length3:55

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$1.15

James Day (participant), Thomas Fetherstonhaugh (treble)
Tenebrae
Paul Mealor, Nigel Short
Recorded: 2011-07-11
Recording Venue: St Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London

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Decca Records introduces A Tender Light, the sublime and moving music of composer, Paul Mealor.

Performed by the brilliant Tenebrae Choir under conductor Nigel Short, and featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, A Tender Light showcases the mastery of this Welsh composer whose music is being considered as the new sound of British choral composition.

A Tender Light features Ubi Caritas (Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal) which was performed at the Royal Wedding of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The piece topped the Classical singles charts in the USA, UK, Australia, France and New Zealand and is publishing company, Music Sales’, No. 1 'Best selling' score. It achieved UK download sales of 5000 copies which is indicative of the popularity and pull of Mealor’s music.

Mealor’s music has continued to be displayed at an international platform, when Ubi Caritas was sung at services across the United States in commemoration of the events of 9/11, including the official New York ceremony at St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral.

Two particular promotional opportunities that will feature at the time of release include the Royal British Legion’s 2011 Festival of Remembrance where a piece of Paul’s music will be performed. In addition, Paul is to feature as guest composer on Gareth Malone’s new BBC programme.

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March 2012

This is certainly not a recording of Ubi Caritas spin-offs...Tenebrae directed by Nigel Short pull out all the vocal stops at the right moments...Mealor has finally found his true compositional voice here - one that manages to avoid the mawkishness of much that characterises recent tonally imbued choral music.

25th November 2011

Mealor's settings of religious texts, notably a lengthy "Stabat Mater", along with his uplifting take on Byron's "She Walks in Beauty", [are] delivered with Tenebrae's precision and almost luminous grace.

9th December 2011

Mealor’s choral creations retain their own British glow, yet he could still suitably share a cupboard with Whitacre’s ecstatic music, and Morten Lauridsen’s too. Lush, warm chords follow a steady pulse, shifting en route into tone cluster crunches before resolving any modest tension with the harmonic equivalent of a handshake...this is a CD with gorgeous singing, much warmth, a beating heart and, as the title says, a tender light. Just don’t overdose.

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