Requiem by Howells to liturgical and biblical texts (1938, performed 1950).
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Requiem by Howells to liturgical and biblical texts (1938, performed 1950).
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Hymnus Paradisi is a choral work by Herbert Howells for soprano and tenor soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra. The work was inspired in part by the death of his son Michael in 1935. Howells wrote the work from 1936 to 1938, but then retained the music privately, without public performance. Ralph Vaughan Williams convinced Howells to allow the work to be performed publicly at the Three Choirs Festival. The work received its successful premiere at the Festival in 1950.[1][2] The score was published in 1951.[3]
Howells had begun composition with his setting of the poem "Hymnus circa exsequies defuncti" of Prudentius.[4] The piece consists of six movements:
Hugh Ottaway and Christopher Palmer have commented on the stylistic affinity of Hymnus Paradisi with the music of Frederick Delius.[5][6]
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