Hyperion CDA67539 · March 2006
Villette - Choral Music
Holst Singers, Stephen Layton (conductor)
Press
Classic FM Magazine2006Villette: Choral Music - Classic FM Magazine 'Shades of Messiaen, Duruflé, Gregorian chant and jazz tinge Villette's elegant, unpretentious motets, sensitively performed hereRead the review 
BBC Music Magazine2006The Holst Singers create great clouds of texture, which surge, form, and melt before your ears … For a bag of musical bonbons à la violette, this disc can't be beatenRead the review 
Choir and Organ2006Whether chant-inspired, leaning towards a jazz idiom or chromaticism, the music is an unusual hybrid. The Holst Singers are eloquent and beguiling under the thoughtful direction of Stephen LaytonRead the review 
International Record Review2006This is simply gorgeous music which has not so much moments of sublime beauty as virtually no passages which aren't, both singly and cumulatively, utterly enchantingRead the review - Classic FM Magazine2006Shades of Messiaen, Duruflé, Gregorian chant and jazz tinge Villette's elegant, unpretentious motets, sensitively performed hereRead the review
Cathedral Music2006If I was going to choose a record company to commit Villette's music to disc, then Hyperion would be my first choice and the team invovled in this production do not let composer or musicians down, capturing the mood so well … it…Read the review 
Fanfare USA2006The Holst Singers’ blend, diction, intonation, and ensemble are uniformly up there with the best, as is the engineering of the recordingRead the review 
American Record Guide2006The Holst Singers - Stephen Layton's 'other' great choir - is every bit as skilled, sonorous and sensitive as his better-known group, Polyphony. Very few conductors manage this sort of exquisite phrasing, subtle nuance, gleaming…Read the review 
Choral Guide USA2006This recording offers the most comprehensive compilation of Villette’s choral music in print. Layton’s interpretation skillfully supports the composer’s intent, especially in terms of text-music relationships. The Holst Singers’…Read the review
Recorded: May 2005
Produced by Jeremy Summerly
Engineered by Simon Eadon
Release date: March 2006
Total duration: 62 minutes 32 seconds
Track list
- O sacrum convivium Op 27Pierre Villette (1926-1998)3'43
- Hymne à la Vierge Op 24 Ô toute belle Vierge MariePierre Villette (1926-1998)3'56
- Attende, Domine Op 45Pierre Villette (1926-1998)5'37
- Notre Père d'Aix Op 75Pierre Villette (1926-1998)2'17
- Inviolata Op 66Pierre Villette (1926-1998)5'15
- Tu es Petrus Op 29Pierre Villette (1926-1998)3'07
- O quam suavis est Op 76Pierre Villette (1926-1998)3'05
- Salutation angélique Op 20Pierre Villette (1926-1998)2'30
- Strophes polyphoniques pour le Veni Creator Op 28Pierre Villette (1926-1998)5'49
- Panis angelicus Op 80Pierre Villette (1926-1998)2'58
- O salutaris hostia Op 21Pierre Villette (1926-1998)2'55
- Ave verum Op 3Pierre Villette (1926-1998)3'16
- Salve regina Op 5Pierre Villette (1926-1998)3'06
- O quam amabilis es Op 71Pierre Villette (1926-1998)3'53
- Jesu, dulcis memoria Op 78Pierre Villette (1926-1998)3'28
- Adoro te Op 31Pierre Villette (1926-1998)3'19
- O magnum misterium Op 53Pierre Villette (1926-1998)4'18
Recording details from Hyperion Records.