Tony Hewitt-Jones: Choral Works and Complete Organ Music
Many composers who wrote primarily for the English cathedral tradition have not received the recognition they deserve outside that cloistered world. Tony Hewitt-Jones (1926–89) is one such composer. Although the choral and organ works heard on this album naturally respond to the requirements of the performers for whom he was writing, they possess a freshness, energy, and individuality that transcend their origins, with a sound world overlapping that of some of his close contemporaries, including John Gardner, Kenneth Leighton, and William Mathias.
Vivum Singers
Francesca Massey, organ accompaniment
Tom Winpenny, conductor, organ, St. Barnabas Chuch, Ealing
Listen To This Recording:
- Fanfare (1960)* (1:23)
- At the round earth’s imagin’d corners (1955)* (2:53)
Sonata for organ (Missa Brevis) (1971) (12:33)
- I. Kyrie eleison (2:35)
- II. Gloria (4:03)
- III. Sanctus. Benedictus and Hosanna (1:52)
- IV. Agnus Dei (4:03)
The Divine Image (1967) (14:19)
- I. I am the wind which breathes upon the sea – Alpha and Omega (5:08)
- II. Sweet Infancy! (1:07)
- III. Sprit of Beauty (2:25)
- IV. To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love (2:08)
- V. Then sing, ye Birds (1:55)
- VI. Jesu is love that lastès ay (1:36)
- Whitsunday Processional (1955) (3:55)
Mass of the Reconciliation (1965)* (7:47)
- I. Kyrie eleison (1:23)
- II. Sanctus and Benedictus (1:14)
- III. Agnus Dei (1:28)
- IV. Motet: O Saviour of the world (1:23)
- V. Gloria in excelsis Deo (2:19)
- Wedding March (1960) (2:40)
- Thou art Peter (c. 1978) (1:14)
Music for Joyful Occasions (10:35)
- No. 1 Intrada (1980) (1:24)
- Rejoice and be merry (1954) (2:37)
Music for Joyful Occasions
- No. 2 Toccata (1978) (2:47)
- Out of the deep (1989) (2:19)
Music for Joyful Occasions
- No. 3 Fanfare and Processional (1982) (6:24)
The Gloucester Service (1981) (5:04)
- Magnificat (3:15)
- Nunc dimittis (1:49)
All Except * First Recordings
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