The Cloud of Unknowing
James Gilchrist / Jeremy Filsell
- Label
- Signum Classics
- Catalogusnummer
- SIGCD 105
- EAN / barcode
- 0635212010525
- Verschijningsdatum
- 31 augustus 2007
- Aantal cd's
- 2
Following its successful premiere performance earlier this year, Francis Pott’s highly anticipated recording of The Cloud of Unknowing is likely to be musical milestone and a choral great. Drawing together a variety of texts and musical influences, Pott weaves together a deep and emotional work with an ethos reminiscent of Michael Tippett’s ‘War Oratorio’. "Jeremy Backhouse's excellent Vasari Singers performed it not just accurately, but with bags of heart and soul as well. A sincere, intelligent and admirably unsensational meditation on the darkness at the heart of man. The Cloud of Unknowing deserves a concert life beyond this moving performance." - The Times
Tracklist
- 01 Prologue (Organ Solo) 02:04
- 02 There Where The Sun First Dwelt 01:09
- 03 Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge 02:46
- 04 Now, As Though God Were Sighing 02:07
- 05 There Where The Sun First Dwelt (Reprise) 02:20
- 06 I Was In The Spirit On The Lord's Day 01:55
- 07 And There Went Out Another Horse That Was Red 01:40
- 08 The Cities Are Burned & Consumed From The Earth 02:08
- 09 For A Nation Is Come Up 01:57
- 10 All Faces Shall Gather Blackness 02:05
- 11 They That Hate Me Without Cause 03:35
- 12 Divided Sons, Fight On 03:13
- 13 Behold A Pale Horse 01:33
- 14 Blessed Be He That Taketh Their Children 00:52
- 15 Dark Earth, Dark Heaves… [Interlude (Organ Solo)] 03:24
- 16 Yesterday I Was At Work Teaching Christ To Lift His Cross 03:29
- 17 The Lord Is My Shepherd 09:08
- 01 For Those Men Night Was A More Bitter Day 04:45
- 02 My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? 04:24
- 03 O Do Not Look 03:22
- 04 Is This He That Was Transfigured 06:02
- 05 There They Lie Huddled 02:55
- 06 Epilogue: Clear Sight Shall Never Man Have 04:26
- 07 For In The Other Life 03:40
- 08 In One Little Time May Heaven Be Won & Lost 04:58
- 09 Amen 02:09
- 10 Farewell, Ghostly Friend 01:30
- 11 The Love In Him Was Such 02:49
- 12 Amen 02:16
