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Herbert Howells
Person · male · United Kingdom · Gloucestershire · born 1892 · died 1983 · recording since 1988
English composer, organist, and teacher (1892–1983)
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Timeline
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1890s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
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Debut release: The St Paul's Service and other music
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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Album: Rhapsodic Quintet / Violin Sonata No.3 / Clarinet Sonata / Harp Prelude
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2020s
Biography
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Biography
Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.
Background and early education
Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucestershire, the youngest of six children of Oliver Howells, a plumber, painter, decorator and builder, and his wife Elizabeth. His father played the organ at the local Baptist church, and Herbert showed early musical promise, first deputising for his father, and then moving at the age of eleven to the local Church of England parish church as choirboy and unofficial deputy organist.
The Howells family's precarious financial situation came to a head when Oliver filed for bankruptcy in September 1904, when Herbert was nearly 12. This was a deep humiliation in a small community at the time and one from which Howells never fully recovered. Financially assisted by a member of the family of Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe, who had taken an interest in the budding musician, Howells began music lessons in 1905 with Herbert Brewer, the organist of Gloucester Cathedral, and at sixteen became his articled pupil at the Cathedral alongside Ivor Novello and Ivor Gurney. Howells and Gurney became close friends, going on long walks through the Gloucestershire countryside discussing their shared love of music and English literature.
Another formative experience for the young Howells was the premiere in September 1910 at the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. Howells related in later years how Vaughan Williams sat next to him for the remainder of the concert and shared his score of Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius with the awestruck aspiring composer. Both Vaughan Williams and the Tudor composers (including Tallis) profoundly influenced Howells' work.
Study at the Royal College of Music
In 1912, following the example of Ivor Gurney, Howells moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Charles Villiers Stanford, Hubert Parry and Charles Wood. Among Howells' contemporaries in the student body were Gurney, Arthur Bliss and Arthur Benjamin.
Howells blossomed in what he considered the "cosy family" atmosphere of the College, and his Mass in the Dorian Mode was performed at Westminster Cathedral under R. R. Terry within weeks of his arrival. For the most part, however, his music at this time was orchestral: works included a piano concerto, withdrawn after its first performance; a light orchestral suite, The B's, portraying three of his friends at the college (Arthur Bliss, Arthur Benjamin, and Francis Purcell "Bunny" Warren); and the Three Dances for violin and orchestra. More typical of the works with which Howells was later associated were his earliest important compositions for organ, the first set of Psalm Preludes (1915–16) and the first of the op. 17 Rhapsodies.
Howells' promise was imperilled in 1915 when he was diagnosed with Graves' disease and given six months to live. His poor health prevented him from being conscripted in World War I, arguably preserving him from the worse fate awaiting Gurney and others of his friends and contemporaries. At St Thomas' Hospital he was given the previously untried radium injections in the neck, administered twice a week over a period of two years. For much of this time Howells travelled between London for treatment and Lydney where he was nursed by his mother. He was nonetheless still able to compose and in 1916 produced the first work of his maturity. The Piano Quartet in A minor, dedicated to "the hill at Chosen and Ivor Gurney who knows it" was in the following year one of the first works published under the auspices of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. The quartet was first played at the home of Marion M. Scott on July 13 1916, the players being Nancy Phillips, Sybil Maturin, Dorothy Thuell and George Ball, who afterwards played it at the RCM. Its first public performance took place at Oxford in November 1917. In the following year Howells became assistant organist at Salisbury Cathedral, but held the post for only a few months, finding the repeated journeys to London for treatment too difficult. Friends then arranged for a grant from the Carnegie Trust, which paid for Howells to assist R. R. Terry in editing the Latin Tudor repertoire that Terry and his choir were reviving at Westminster Cathedral. The work was to lead to a multi-volume edition of Tudor Church Music by Oxford University Press in the 1920s. It provided Howells with a comfortable income and enabled him to absorb the English Renaissance style which he loved and would evoke in his own music. His first significant works for choir, the Three Carol-Anthems (Here is the Little Door, A Spotless Rose and Sing Lullaby) were written around this time.
Marriage and teaching
In 1920 Howells married Dorothy Eveline Goozee (1891–1975), informally adopted daughter of John and Alma Dawe. Dorothy was a singer whom he had met in 1911 when deputising as her accompanist. The marriage endured despite Howells' frequent infidelities, and produced two children, Ursula (1922–2005), later an actress, and Michael (1926–1935).
In the same year he joined the staff of the Royal College of Music, where he was to remain until 1979. Among his pupils were Robert Simpson, Gordon Jacob, James Bernard, Paul Spicer, Madeleine Dring, and Imogen Holst. The post at the RCM, which from 1925 he combined with the position of Director of Music at St Paul's Girls' School, and frequent work as a competition adjudicator, was to reduce the amount of time he could devote to composition; but he continued to write orchestral and chamber music, including the string quartet In Gloucestershire (originally written 1916, but rewritten in whole or in part several times and not reaching its final form until the 1930s), the overture Merry Eye (1920) and the second Piano Concerto (1925). The first performance of the last named work occasioned a demonstration in the concert hall from a hostile critic. Howells, always over-sensitive to criticism, withdrew the work and produced few significant compositions for several years. Howells' friend and fellow composer, Martin Sumpter, encouraged this temporary hiatus from composing large-scale works. One exception was Lambert's Clavichord (1928), a rare example of a composition by a 20th-century composer for that instrument. It was inspired by a clavichord lent to Howells by his friend Herbert Lambert, an instrument maker and photographer based in Bath. Several other major compositions written around this time, however, remained unperformed, notably an a cappella Requiem to English words written in 1932, and a choral work, A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song, written the following year.
Family tragedy and the war
In September 1935 Howells' nine-year-old son Michael contracted polio during a family holiday, dying in London three days later. Michael was buried in the churchyard of St Matthew's Church in Twigworth, Gloucestershire.
Howells was deeply affected and continued to commemorate the event until the end of his life. At the suggestion of his daughter Ursula he sought to channel his grief into music, and over the next three years composed much of the large-scale choral work which was eventually to become Hymnus Paradisi, drawing on material from the still unpublished Requiem of 1932. This remained, in Howells' words, "a personal, almost secret document" until 1950. Other commemorative works written around this time include the Concerto for Strings (written in 1938), the slow movement of which is in joint memory of Michael and Edward Elgar, and the unfinished Cello Concerto, on which Howells had been working at the time of the boy's death and which he found himself unable to complete. A Sequence for St Michael and the motet Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing have also been associated with Howells's grief for Michael, as have two of Howells's hymn tunes, the best-known of which is his tune for the hymn "All My Hope on God is Founded" by Robert Bridges ("A Hymn Tune for Charterhouse"), which was renamed Michael for its publication in The Clarendon Hymn Book in 1936. Howells also wrote the tune Twigworth (1968) for the hymn "God is love, let heaven adore him". To a greater or lesser extent, however, much of Howells' subsequent music shows the influence of this loss.
From the late 1930s, Howells turned increasingly to choral and organ music, composing a second series of Psalm Preludes followed by a set of Six Pieces (begun 1939), of which the third, Master Tallis's Testament, a particular favourite of the composer's, recalled his formative experience of Vaughan Williams' Tallis Fantasia. A set of Four Anthems, originally titled In Time of War and including the popular O Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and Like as the Hart, followed in early 1941. In August of that year, Howells was invited to serve as acting organist of St John's College, Cambridge, replacing Robin Orr who was away on active service in World War II. Howells' association with Cambridge, which lasted until the end of the war in 1945, was a productive and happy period for him, and led directly to the works for which he is most remembered. He later recalled being challenged by the Dean of King's College, Eric Milner-White, to write a set of canticles for the choir. The result was the Te Deum and Jubilate of the service known as Collegium Regale, performed in 1944, followed the next year by the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, and completed in 1956 by the Office of Holy Communion. Collegium Regale, the Gloucester Service (for Gloucester Cathedral, 1946) and the St Paul's Service (for St Paul's Cathedral, 1951) remain the best known and most admired of the many settings of the Anglican liturgy written by Howells for particular choirs and buildings over the next thirty years.
Hymnus Paradisi and after
In 1949, the organist Herbert Sumsion asked Howells if he had anything that could be performed at the 1950 Three Choirs Festival to be held at Gloucester. Howells decided to bring out the incomplete choral work he had written in his son Michael's memory between 1936 and 1938. (In later years Howells claimed it was at the urging of Vaughan Williams that the piece was disinterred). The work, retitled Hymnus Paradisi at Sumsion's suggestion, was completed and orchestrated in time for its first performance on 7 September 1950, the day after the 15th anniversary of Michael's death. It was Howells' greatest public and critical success, and for many years was his best known work. Shorter choral works written around this time include the carol-anthem Long long ago (1951), the introit Behold O God our Defender for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and The House of the Mind (1954) for chorus and strings.
Though not an orthodox Christian, Howells was chiefly identified with the composition of religious music. His follow-up work to the Hymnus Paradisi was an extended setting of the Latin Mass for soloists, chorus and orchestra, named Missa Sabrinensis after the River Severn and first performed in Worcester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival in 1954. It was considered a disappointment after the success of the earlier work, and its extreme complexity and difficulty has prevented it becoming widely known. Howells followed it with An English Mass (1956), a smaller-scale setting to English words for chorus, strings and organ. His final large-scale choral work was the Stabat Mater, setting a text whose subsidiary theme of a parent mourning a child had obvious personal significance. He began it in 1959 but found it difficult to complete; it was not performed until 1965. The motet Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing, a posthumous tribute to President John F. Kennedy, was written in late spring of 1964. It premiered as part of a 22 November 1964 Canadian tribute to Kennedy at Washington's National Gallery of Art sung by the Choir of St George's Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, under the direction of George N. Maybee. Maybee brought the St George's choir to England in September 1965, and they performed the piece at King's College, Cambridge with Howells in attendance. Take Him, Earth is described by Howells' pupil Paul Spicer as "a classic of twentieth century choral music" and "an undoubted masterpiece".
Howells continued to compose until his late 80s, but wrote nothing further on the scale of the Stabat Mater. One of the last works to appear in his lifetime was the Requiem, edited for performance from his manuscripts in 1980 and published the following year, almost fifty years after its composition.
He died on 23 February 1983 at the age of 90, in a nursing home in Putney, one day after his good friend Sir Adrian Boult, and his ashes were interred in Westminster Abbey.
Honours and legacy
Howells was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1953 and Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1972. His academic awards included an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, awarded in 1961. A "Herbert Howells Society", started by his daughter Ursula in 1987, and a "Herbert Howells Trust", founded after her death in 2005, exist to promote his works.
There are several portraits of Howells. A 1974 oil painting by Leonard Boden hangs in the collection of the Royal College of Music, and in the National Portrait Gallery, London there is a chalk sketch by Boden, an oil portrait by Howard James Morgan and photographic portraits by Herbert Lambert, Clive Barda and Elliott & Fry.
The cellist Julian Lloyd Webber was Howells' godson.
Compositions
Howells composed a range of orchestral, choral and chamber works. He is best known for his sacred choral music, notably his settings of services for Mattins (morning service with Te Deum, Benedictus and Jubilate) and choral Evensong (evening service with Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis), many of which are dedicated to specific places of worship such as Gloucester Cathedral (Gloucester Service), King's College, Cambridge (Collegium Regale) and St Paul's Cathedral (St Paul's Service) He also composed several hymn tunes and a Requiem.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 42 | 93.1th |
| Studio albums | 38 | 98.8th |
| Awards recorded | 4 | 96.3th |
| Timeline events | 45 | 98.5th |
| Recording span (years) | -5 | 9th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (42 release groups · 38 studio albums)
Albums · 38
The St Paul's Service and other music
1988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:01:44
1Te Deum (Collegium Regale)9:262Jubilate (Collegium Regale)3:223Master Tallis's Testament (No. 3 of Six Pieces for Organ)6:454Like as the Heart Desireth the Waterbrooks (No. 3 of Four Anthems)6:365Behold, O God Our Defender4:076Psalm-Prelude ‘De Profundis’ (Set 2 no. 1)9:227Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing9:448Magnificat (St Paul's Service)6:589Nunc Dimittis (St Paul's Service)5:241988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 40:21
1Three pieces for organ: Intrata7:592Three pieces for organ: Flourish for a bidding2:523Three pieces for organ: St Louis comes to Clifton4:374Two slow Airs: 13:375Two slow Airs: 23:546Six short pieces for organ: Tranquillo, ma con moto2:377Six short pieces for organ: Allegro Scherzando2:238Six short pieces for organ: Aria2:159Six short pieces for organ: Allegro impetuoso2:0710Six short pieces for organ: Chorale2:0111Six short pieces for organ: Quasi Lento5:59Howells: In Gloucestershire / Dyson: Three Rhapsodies
1989 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:04:24
1In Gloucestershire (String Quartet no. 3): I. With easy and flexible movement11:172In Gloucestershire (String Quartet no. 3): II. Fairly quick, but always rhythmical1:553In Gloucestershire (String Quartet no. 3): III. Slow in pace; with much feeling10:164In Gloucestershire (String Quartet no. 3): IV. Allegro vivace; assai ritmico9:355Rhapsody no. 1: Allegretto10:436Rhapsody no. 2: Lento11:517Rhapsody no. 3: Adagio - Allegretto8:471990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:07:02
1Three psalm-preludes-Set 1, Op. 32: Psalm Prelude No. 16:392Three psalm-preludes-Set 1, Op. 32: Psalm Prelude No. 25:183Three psalm-preludes-Set 1, Op. 32: Psalm Prelude No. 37:434Three Rhapsodies Op. 17: Rhapsody No. 16:195Three Rhapsodies Op. 17: Rhapsody No. 28:156Three Rhapsodies Op. 17: Rhapsody No. 37:577Three Psalm Preludes-Set 2: Psalm Prelude No. 19:168Three Psalm Preludes-Set 2: Psalm Prelude No. 26:559Three Psalm Preludes-Set 2: Psalm Prelude No. 38:40A Celebration of Herbert Howells
1992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:17:24
1Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Mattins: Te Deum8:362Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Mattins: Jubilate3:113Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Communion Service: Kyrie1:274Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Communion Service: Credo6:445Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Communion Service: Sanctus2:186Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Communion Service: Benedictus1:497Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Communion Service: Agnus Dei2:028Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Communion Service: Gloria4:509Psalm-Preludes, Op. 32 - Set One (1915-16): Psalm 37 v115:4210Preces and Responses: O Lord, open Thou our lips2:1211Psalm 1212:2312Psalm 1222:3713Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Evensong: Magnificat5:0814Services. 'Collegium Regale' - Canticles (1944) - Evensong: Nunc Dimittis4:0015Preces and Responses: The Lord be with you7:4516Take him, earth for cherishing (1963) (Motet on the death of President Kennedy) - English text: Helen Waddell8:1417Three Rhapsodies, Op. 17 (1915-18): No. 38:26Hymnus Paradisi / An English Mass
1992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:19:47
1Hymnus Paradisi: Preludio3:482Hymnus Paradisi: Requiem aeternam9:493Hymnus Paradisi: The Lord is my Shepherd7:154Hymnus Paradisi: Sanctus – I will lift up mine eyes10:315Hymnus Paradisi: I heard a voice from Heaven4:436Hymnus Paradisi: Holy is the True Light9:107An English Mass: Kyrie eleison5:598An English Mass: Credo "I believe in one God, the Father Almighty"8:099An English Mass: Sursum corda "Lift up your hearts"1:0610An English Mass: Sanctus "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts"3:1211An English Mass: Benedictus "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord"4:1312An English Mass: Agnus Dei "O Lamb of God"3:0413An English Mass: Gloria "Glory be to God on high"8:48Piano Concerto no. 2 / Concerto for Strings / Three Dances
1992 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:08:44
1Concerto for String Orchestra: Allegro, assai vivace10:212Concerto for String Orchestra: Quasi lento. Teneramente7:473Concerto for String Orchestra: Allegro vivace. Ritmico e giocoso9:394Three Dances for Violin and Orchestra, op. 7: Giocoso molto5:505Three Dances for Violin and Orchestra, op. 7: Quasi lento, quieto6:156Three Dances for Violin and Orchestra, op. 7: Molto allegro1:517Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor: Allegro (Hard and bright) —10:498Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor: Poco lento, calmato —8:209Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor: Allegro (Hard and bright again)7:521993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:07:30
1Concerto for String Orchestra: I. Allegro, assai vivace10:282Concerto for String Orchestra: II. Quasi lento: teneramente11:043Concerto for String Orchestra: III. Allegro vivo: ritmico e giocoso10:074Elegy for Solo Viola, String Quartet and String Orchestra10:445Suite for String Orchestra: I. Allegro deciso6:276Suite for String Orchestra: II. Siciliano Elegiaco. Con moto, ma tenerezza6:147Suite for String Orchestra: III. Alla Menuetto. Allegro moderato3:558Suite for String Orchestra: IV. Rondo. Allegro assai: brioso4:099Serenade for Strings4:221993 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:11:16
1SONATA NO 1 IN E MAJOR op 18 (1917-19) i Allegretto, sempre un poco rubato4:422SONATA NO 1 IN E MAJOR op 18 (1917-19) ii Meno mosso (Quasi lento)4:293SONATA NO 1 IN E MAJOR op 18 (1917-19) iii Allegro molto3:354SONATA NO 1 IN E MAJOR op 18 (1917-19) iv Assai tranquillo3:095CRADLE SONG op 9 no 1 (1918)4:526SONATA NO 3 IN E MINOR op 38 (1923) i Poco allegro, semplice8:497SONATA NO 3 IN E MINOR op 38 (1923) ii Allegro moderato, assai ritmico3:158SONATA NO 3 IN E MINOR op 38 (1923) iii Vivace, assai ritmico8:2993 PIECES op 28 (1917) Pastorale op 28 ‘no 2’4:06103 PIECES op 28 (1917) Chosen Tune op 28 ‘no 3’1:30113 PIECES op 28 (1917) Luchinushka op 28 ‘no 4’3:4312SONATA NO 2 IN E FLAT MAJOR op 26 (1917) i Allegro moderato10:0413SONATA NO 2 IN E FLAT MAJOR op 26 (1917) ii Quasilento4:2114SONATA NO 2 IN E FLAT MAJOR op 26 (1917) iii Lento Allegro molto6:121994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 51:40
1Stabat Mater: I. Stabat mater dolorosa7:582Stabat Mater: II. Cujus animam gementem10:073Stabat Mater: III.Quis est homo?4:404Stabat Mater: IV. Eia, Mater4:555Stabat Mater: V. Sancta Mater5:576Stabat Mater: VI. Fac ut portem7:437Stabat Mater: VII. Christe, cum sit hunc exire10:201995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 58:04
1King's Herald4:322Paradise Rondel9:423Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra17:334Threnody for Cello and Orchestra9:135Pastoral Rhapsody12:266Procession4:381995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:16:05
1Missa Sabrinensis: I. Kyrie10:182Missa Sabrinensis: II. Gloria20:143Missa Sabrinensis: III. Credo18:424Missa Sabrinensis: IV. Sanctus9:335Missa Sabrinensis: V. Benedictus6:496Missa Sabrinensis: VI. Agnus Dei10:291996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:00:22
1Behold, O God Our Defender4:112Three Carol Anthems: Here is the little door3:143Three Carol Anthems: Sing Lullaby3:224Three Carol Anthems: A Spotless Rose3:205Te Deum10:576The Scribe3:597Thee Will I Love5:438Blessed are the dead4:399Even Such Is Time5:4810Inheritance5:5511Haec dies2:4412God Is Gone Up6:301997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:05:22
1Suite for Orchestra "The B's": I. Overture: Bublum10:042Suite for Orchestra "The B's": II. Lament: Bartholomew7:393Suite for Orchestra "The B's": III. Scherzo: Blissy2:434Suite for Orchestra "The B's": IV. Mazurka alias Minuet: Bunny3:405Suite for Orchestra "The B's": V. March: Benjee8:256Three Dances for Violin and Orchestra: I. Giocoso molto5:327Three Dances for Violin and Orchestra: II. Quasi lento, quieto6:578Three Dances for Violin and Orchestra: III. Molto allegro2:089In Green Ways: I. Under the Greenwood Tree1:4810In Green Ways: II. The Goat Paths8:1311In Green Ways: III. Merry Margaret2:4512In Green Ways: IV. Wanderer's Night Song4:2313In Green Ways: V. On the Merry First of May1:05Hymnus Paradisi / Fantasia for Cello & Orchestra
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:07:21
1Hymnus Paradisi: I Preludio4:292Hymnus Paradisi: II Requiem Aeternam10:083Hymnus Paradisi: III The Lord Is My Shepherd7:584Hymnus Paradisi: IV Sanctus I Will Lift up Mine Eyes10:505Hymnus Paradisi: V I Heard a Voice From heaven5:326Hymnus Paradisi: VI Holy is the True Light10:327Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra17:52The St Paul's Service and Other Music
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:58:15
Disc 11Psalm-Prelude (Set 1, op. 32 no. 1)6:402Te Deum (Collegium Regale)9:203Psalm-Prelude (Set 1, op. 32 no. 2)5:184Jubilate (Collegium Regale)3:165Psalm-Prelude (Set 1, op. 32 no. 3)7:436Behold, O God Our Defender4:017Three Rhapsodies: Rhapsody in D-flat major, op. 17 no. 16:248Three Rhapsodies: Rhapsody in E-flat minor, op. 17 no. 28:209Three Rhapsodies: Rhapsody in C-sharp minor, op. 17 no. 38:0510Like as the Heart Desireth the Waterbrooks (No. 3 of Four Anthems)6:38Disc 21Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing9:392Master Tallis's Testament (No. 3 of Six Pieces for Organ)6:443Psalm-Prelude ‘De Profundis’ (Set 2 no. 1)9:164Magnificat (St Paul's Service)6:525Psalm-Prelude (Set 2 no. 2)6:556Nunc Dimittis (St Paul's Service)5:237Psalm-Prelude (Set 2 no. 3)7:41Hymnus Paradisi / A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 1:05:10
1Hymnus Paradisi: I. Preludio4:132Hymnus Paradisi: II. Requiem aeternam9:473Hymnus Paradisi: III. The Lord is my Shepherd7:214Hymnus Paradisi: IV. Sanctus: I will lift up mine eyes10:455Hymnus Paradisi: V. I Heard a Voice from Heaven5:076Hymnus Paradisi: VI. Holy is the True Light9:367A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song: I. Lento2:178A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song: II. Allegro vivo3:339A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song: III. Meno mosso, con tenerezza7:0410A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song: IV. Allegro ritmico5:27Requiem / Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:15:52
1St Paul's: Magnificat (1951)6:372St Paul's: Nunc Dimittis (1951)4:593Like as the Hart5:064Paean for Organ6:055Requiem: I. Salvator Mundi2:006Requiem: II. Psalm 232:227Requiem: III. Requiem aeternam2:548Requiem: IV. Psalm 1212:249Requiem: V. Requiem aeternam (2)3:0810Requiem: VI. I heard a voice from heaven4:0111Long, Long Ago4:1112Office of Holy Communion "Collegium Regale": I. Kyrie1:1813Office of Holy Communion "Collegium Regale": II. Credo5:4914Office of Holy Communion "Collegium Regale": III. Sanctus2:0915Office of Holy Communion "Collegium Regale": IV. Benedictus1:3116Office of Holy Communion "Collegium Regale": V. Agnus Dei1:4617Office of Holy Communion "Collegium Regale": VI. Gloria in excelsis4:1918Rhapsody no. 3 for Organ7:2319Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing7:50Piano Concerto no. 1 / Piano Concerto no. 2 / Penguinski
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:10:53
1Concerto no. 1 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, op. 4: I. Allegro moderato16:272Concerto no. 1 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, op. 4: II. Tranquillo, e quasi lento10:593Concerto no. 1 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, op. 4: III. Allegro moderato, e scherzando11:364Concerto no. 2 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 39: I. Allegro11:025Concerto no. 2 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 39: II. Poco lento, calmato - Allegro9:216Concerto no. 2 in C major for Piano and Orchestra, op. 39: III. Allegro assai - Giocoso - A tempo7:097Penguinski4:19The complete Morning and Evening Canticles Volume 1
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:05:03
1Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G (1918): Magnificat5:242Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G (1918): Nunc Dimittis2:503The Sarum Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1966): Magnificat6:394The Sarum Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1966): Nunc Dimittis3:535Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense (1957): Magnificat5:186Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense (1957): Nunc Dimittis3:137The York Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1973): Magnificat6:358The York Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1973): Nunc Dimittis3:599Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for Men's Voices ansd Organ (1941): Magnificat5:1310Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for Men's Voices ansd Organ (1941): Nunc Dimittis3:2211New College, Oxford (1949): Magnificat6:4112New College, Oxford (1949): Nunc Dimittis3:0013Collegium Regale (1945): Magnificat4:5414Collegium Regale (1945): Nunc Dimittis4:02The complete Morning and Evening Canticles Volume 3
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:11:27
1Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B minor (1955): Magnificat5:352Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B minor (1955): Nunc Dimittis3:343Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for men's voices (1935): Magnificat6:064Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for men's voices (1935): Nunc Dimittis3:085The Winchester Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1967): Magnificat7:096The Winchester Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1967): Nunc Dimittis3:337St Augustine's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1967): Magnificat7:078St Augustine's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (1967): Nunc Dimittis4:249Dallas Canticles (1975): Magnificat5:5810Dallas Canticles (1975): Nunc Dimittis3:4711Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for the Cathedral Church of Hereford (1969): Magnificat5:4612Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for the Cathedral Church of Hereford (1969): Nunc Dimittis3:4913Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for St. Paul's Cathedral (1951): Magnificat6:4014Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for St. Paul's Cathedral (1951): Nunc Dimittis4:51Rhapsodic Quintet / Violin Sonata No.3 / Clarinet Sonata / Harp Prelude
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 1:06:04
1Rhapsodic Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (1919)11:342Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1946): I. Con moto dolce10:563Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1946): II. Allegro ritmico con brio10:344Prelude for Harp (1915)6:005A Near-Minuet for Clarinet and Piano (1946)2:426Sonata no. 3 in E minor for Violin and Piano (1923): I. Poco allegro10:247Sonata no. 3 in E minor for Violin and Piano (1923): II. Allegro moderato3:258Sonata no. 3 in E minor for Violin and Piano (1923): III. Vivace10:292005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:19:35
1A Sequence for St. Michael10:592A Hymn for St. Cecilia3:173O pray for the peace of Jerusalem7:154Service for St. George's Chapel, Windsor: Te Deum10:485Service for St. George's Chapel, Windsor: Benedictus6:356I love all beauteous things6:327Salve Regina4:428Service for New College, Oxford: Magnificat6:179Service for New College, Oxford: Nunc dimittis3:1310Three Carol-Anthems: II. A Spotless Rose3:0811Three Carol-Anthems: III. Sing lullaby3:2812Three Carol-Anthems: I. Here is the little door3:5113Collegium Regale (Service for King's College, Cambridge): Magnificat5:1514Collegium Regale (Service for King's College, Cambridge): Nunc dimittis4:15Lambert’s Clavichord / Howells’ Clavichord
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 32 tracks · 1:19:03
1Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 1 Lambert’s Fireside1:372Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 2 Fellowes’s Delight1:353Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 3 Hughes’s Ballet1:074Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 4 Wortham’s Grounde3:035Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 5 Sargent’s Fantastic Sprite1:126Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 6 Foss’s Dump1:397Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 7 My Lord Sandwich’s Dreame2:388Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 8 Samuel’s Air2:249Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 9 De la Mare’s Pavane3:0110Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 10 Sir Hugh’s Galliard1:0711Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 11 H H His Fancy3:2212Twelve pieces for clavichord “Lambert’s Clavichord”, op. 41: No. 12 Sir Richard’s Toye1:1313Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 1: Goff’s Fireside2:4214Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 2: Patrick’s Siciliano2:2515Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 3: Jacob’s Brawl1:3616Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 4: Dart’s Sarabande3:0217Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 5: Arnold’s Antic2:0718Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 6: Andrews’ Air2:2719Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 7: Boult’s Brangill2:0920Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 8: Rubbra’s Soliloquy3:5121Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 9: Newman’s Flight2:1322Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book I no. 10: Dyson’s Delight2:2523Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 1: E B’s Fanfarando1:1824Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 2: Ralph’s Pavane4:5625Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 3: Ralph’s Galliard2:3726Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 4: Finzi’s Rest5:0627Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 5: Berkeley’s Hunt1:4228Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 6: Malcolm’s Vision4:2129Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 7: Bliss’s Ballet1:4530Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 8: Julian’s Dream3:5631Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 9: Jacques’s Mask2:2832Twenty pieces for clavichord or piano “Howells’ Clavichord”: Book II no. 10: Walton’s Toye1:59Hymnus paradisi / Sir Patrick Spens
2007 · studio album
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1Sir Patrick Spens, op. 2320:092Hymnus paradisi: I. Preludio. Lento, molto espressivo3:523Hymnus paradisi: II. Requiem aeternam. Lento, teneramente9:214Hymnus paradisi: III. The Lord is my shepherd (Psalm 23). Quasi lento: non troppo rubato7:295Hymnus paradisi: IV. Sanctus - I will lift up mine eyes. Allegro volante9:526Hymnus paradisi: V. I heard a voice from heaven. Lento, assai tranquillo4:487Hymnus paradisi: VI. Holy is the true Light. Con moto, ma assai sostenuto9:38St. John's Magnificat: Choral Works by Herbert Howells
2010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:15:33
1A Sequence for St Michael10:102By the Waters of Babylon10:173A Spotless Rose3:294Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Gloucester Service): I. Magnificat6:555Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Gloucester Service): II. Nunc Dimittis4:386Psalm 1424:187A Grace for 10 Downing Street2:368One Thing Have I Desired5:439Like as the Hart5:5710Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense): I. Magnificat4:2911Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense): II. Nunc Dimittis3:0912Four Anthems to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Op. 9: IV. Salve Regina4:4913Te Deum, “Collegium Regale”9:032010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:09:00
1The Summer Is Coming7:182Sweetest of Sweets4:583Sing Lullaby3:174One Thing Have I Desired5:215A Spotless Rose3:116Antiphon4:207Walking in the Snow4:058A Grace for 10 Downing Street2:339Here Is the Little Door3:3510God Be in My Head1:2411Long, Long Ago4:5512Te Deum (Collegium Regale)8:5413Jubilate (Collegium Regale)3:0914Magnificat (Dallas Canticles)5:3515Nunc Dimittis (Dallas Canticles)3:1816A Hymn for St. Cecilia3:072011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:08:24
1Jubilate Deo4:292Thee will I love5:473The Winchester Service: Magnificat7:054The Winchester Service: Nunc dimittis3:205Rhapsody no. 46:526Come, my soul4:297Te Deum12:028Coventry Antiphon4:499A Flourish for a Bidding3:2010Antiphon4:0311The fear of the Lord5:4612Exultate Deo6:222012 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 1:04:08
1A Hymn for St Cecilia3:082Salve regina5:003Gloucester Service: Magnificat6:264Gloucester Service: Nunc dimittis4:345Take him, earth, for cherishing9:006St. Paul’s Service: Magnificat6:417St. Paul’s Service: Nunc dimittis5:338Requiem: Salvator mundi2:389Requiem: Psalm 232:4210Requiem: Requiem aeternam I3:4511Requiem: Psalm 1213:0512Requiem: Requiem aeternam II3:3813Requiem: I heard a voice from heaven4:3014Michael: “All my hope on God is founded”3:282014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:10:23
1Stabat mater: Stabat mater dolorosa7:332Stabat mater: Cujus animam gementem7:583Stabat mater: Quis est homo?4:414Stabat mater: Eia, Mater4:545Stabat mater: Sancta Mater -5:456Stabat mater: Fac ut portem -6:347Stabat mater: Christe, cum sit hinc exire11:238Te Deum9:029Sine nomine12:332016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 32 tracks · 1:26:27
Disc 11Lamberts' Clavicord Lamber'ts Fireside2:002Lamberts' Clavicord Fellowes' Delight2:043Lamberts' Clavicord Hughes' Ballet1:214Lamberts' Clavicord Worham's Grounde2:335Lamberts' Clavicord Sargent's Fantastic Sprite1:346Lamberts' Clavicord Foss's Dump2:017Lamberts' Clavicord My Lord Sandwich's Dreame3:298Lamberts' Clavicord Samuel's Air2:589Lamberts' Clavicord De la Mare's Pavane3:3710Lamberts' Clavicord Sir Hugh's Galliard1:1711Lamberts' Clavicord H.H. His Fancy3:5012Lamberts' Clavicord Sir Richard's Toye1:2013Howells' Clavicord Book I Goff's Fireside (For Thomas Goff)3:4414Howells' Clavicord Book I Patrick's Siciliano (For Patrick Hadley)2:5515Howells' Clavicord Book I Jacob's Brawl (For Gordon Jacob)1:5016Howells' Clavicord Book I Dart's Saraband (For Thurston Dart)2:4717Howells' Clavicord Book I Arnold's Antie (For Malcolm Arnold)2:1018Howells' Clavicord Book I Andrews' Air (For H.K. Andrews)3:0119Howells' Clavicord Book I Boult's Brangill (For Sir Adrian Boult)2:0220Howells' Clavicord Book I Rubbra's Soliloquy (For Edmund Rubbra)3:5121Howells' Clavicord Book I Newman's Flight (For Max Newman F.R.S.)2:0322Howells' Clavicord Book I Dyson's Delight (For Sir George Dyson)2:44Disc 21Howells' Clavichord Book II E.B.'s Fanfarando1:192Howells' Clavichord Book II Ralph's Pavane5:473Howells' Clavichord Book II Ralph's Galliard2:324Howells' Clavichord Book II Finzi's Rest4:245Howells' Clavichord Book II Berkeley's Hunt1:506Howells' Clavichord Book II Malcolm's Vision4:257Howells' Clavichord Book II Bliss's Ballet1:508Howells' Clavichord Book II Julian's Dream4:379Howells' Clavichord Book II Jacques's Mask2:2810Howells' Clavichord Book II Walton's Toye2:042016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:01:14
1Jubilate (Morning Canticle no. 2)3:292Magnificat (Evening Canticle no. 1)5:163Nunc dimittis (Evening Canticle no. 24:124Psalm 1222:385I Love All Beauteous Things6:156Office of Holy Communion: Kyrie1:237Office of Holy Communion: Credo6:178Office of Holy Communion: Sanctus2:269Office of Holy Communion: Benedictus1:4510Office of Holy Communion: Agnus Dei2:0411Office of Holy Communion: Gloria4:3712Psalm 1212:3413Behold, O God Our Defender3:2914Rhapsody in D-flat major, op. 17 no. 16:1215Te Deum (Morning Canticle no. 1)8:372019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 1:16:03
1String Quartet no. 3 “In Gloucestershire”: I. With Easy and Flexible Movement9:222String Quartet no. 3 “In Gloucestershire”: II. Fairly Quick, but Always Rhythmical2:093String Quartet no. 3 “In Gloucestershire”: III. Slow in Pace, with Much Feeling8:294String Quartet no. 3, “In Gloucestershire”: IV. Allegro vivace: Assai ritmico8:405Lady Audrey’s Suite, op. 19: I. The 4 Sleepy Golliwogs’ Dance4:546Lady Audrey’s Suite, op. 19: II. The Little Girl and the Old Shepherd3:397Lady Audrey’s Suite, op. 19: III. Prayer-time8:308Lady Audrey’s Suite, op. 19: IV. The Old Shepherd’s Tale3:249Piano Quartet in A minor, op. 21: I. Allegro moderato, Tranquillo10:5310Piano Quartet in A minor, op. 21: II. Lento, molto tranquillo8:3111Piano Quartet in A minor, op. 21: III. Allegro molto, Energico7:32Cello Concerto / An English Mass
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:43:38
Disc 11Te Deum and Jubilate “Collegium Regale”: Te Deum8:532An English Mass: I. Kyrie5:423An English Mass: II. Credo8:404An English Mass: III. Sursum corda0:585An English Mass: IV. Sanctus2:506An English Mass: V. Benedictus4:137An English Mass: VI. Agnus Dei3:358An English Mass: VII. Gloria9:099Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis “Collegium Regale”: Magnificat4:57Disc 21Cello Concerto: I. Fantasia. Tranquillo – Assai andante17:092Cello Concerto: II. Threnody. Lento calmato – Assai teneramente9:203Cello Concerto: III. Finale. Allegro vigoroso8:334Six Pieces for Organ: VI. Paean6:155Six Pieces for Organ: III. Master Tallis’s Testament6:446Three Rhapsodies, op. 17: No. 3 in C‐sharp minor6:402020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:11:29
1Missa Sabrinensis: Kyrie10:112Missa Sabrinensis: Gloria18:153Missa Sabrinensis: Credo14:324Missa Sabrinensis: Sanctus7:065Missa Sabrinensis: Benedictus7:056Missa Sabrinensis: Agnus Dei10:017Michael “A Fanfare Setting”4:192020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:05:51
1Phantasy5:032Harlequin Dreaming3:233My Lord Harewood's Galliard1:124Finzi: His Rest4:295Summer Idyls: I. Meadow-Rest4:466Summer Idyls: II. Summer-Song2:127Summer Idyls: III. June-Haze4:188Summer Idyls: IV. Down the Hills2:229Summer Idyls: V. Quiet Woods2:4610Summer Idyls: VI. Near Midnight4:5311Summer Idyls: VII. In the Morning2:2512Siciliana3:1513Pavane and Galliard: I. Pavane5:0814Pavane and Galliard: II. Galliard2:2215Petrus Suite: I. Finnicle's Scherzo2:1416Petrus Suite: II. Gavotte2:5317Petrus Suite: III. Vagrant Flute2:0218Petrus Suite: IV. Minuet Sine Nomine5:0319Petrus Suite: V. Bassoonic's Dance1:5920Petrus Suite: VI. Odd's Minuet1:5021Petrus Suite: VII. Toccatina1:162022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 29 tracks · 1:09:23
1Comme le cerf soupire…6:262The Arab's Song3:523To a Wild Flower3:394Romance4:505Melody2:386Legend4:187The Chosen Tune1:468A Mersey Tune0:499Country Pageant: I. Merry Andrew's Procession1:0410Country Pageant: II. Kings and Queens1:1011Country Pageant: III. There Was a Most Beautiful Lady2:3412Country Pageant: IV. The Mummers' Dance1:0413A Little Book of Dances: I. Minuet1:2714A Little Book of Dances: II. Gavotte1:1015A Little Book of Dances: III. Pavane2:1116A Little Book of Dances: IV. Galliard0:4917A Little Book of Dances: V. Rigadoon1:2118A Little Book of Dances: VI. Jig1:2319A Sailor Tune1:09203 Tunes for Piano: No. 1, Walking Tune0:44213 Tunes for Piano: No. 2, Country Tune1:23223 Tunes for Piano: No. 3, Trumpet Tune0:5623Minuet for Ursula1:4924Promenade for Girls1:0925Promenade for Boys1:2326Et nunc et semper2:5827Piano Sonatina: I. Vivo. Inquieto5:1828Piano Sonatina: II. Quasi adagio. Serioso ma teneramente5:4029Piano Sonatina: III. Agile, destro, sempre veloce4:232025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:23:11
1Six Pieces for Organ: 3. Master Tallis’s Testament7:042Psalm 345:323Psalm-Prelude, Set 1, Op 32: No 16:554Psalm 3711:015Psalm-Prelude, Set 1, Op 32: No 25:486Psalm 232:197Psalm-Prelude, Set 1, Op 32: No 37:568Psalm 1302:349Psalm-Prelude, Set 2: No 18:2510Psalm 1395:4211Psalm-Prelude, Set 2: No 26:4712Psalm 335:4213Psalm-Prelude, Set 2: No 37:26
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Mass In The Dorian Mode / Mass For Double ChoirSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:10:321Mass in the Dorian Mode: Kyrie2:16 2Mass in the Dorian Mode: Gloria in Excelsis3:30 3Mass in the Dorian Mode: Credo5:55 4Mass in the Dorian Mode: Sanctus2:05 5Mass in the Dorian Mode: Benedictus1:51 6Mass in the Dorian Mode: Osanna1:14 7Mass in the Dorian Mode: Agnus Dei I2:16 8Mass in the Dorian Mode: Agnus Dei II3:31 9Salve Regina4:41 10O salutaris Hostia2:27 11Sweetest of sweets5:19 12Come, my soul4:20 13Antiphon4:11 14Nunc Dimittis3:14 15Regina caeli3:32 16Mass for Double Choir: Kyrie eleison5:05 17Mass for Double Choir: Gloria4:42 18Mass for Double Choir: Sanctus3:29 19Mass for Double Choir: Benedictus2:36 20Mass for Double Choir: Agnus Dei4:18 | Compilation | 1992 | |
| 2005 | Orchestral WorksSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 19 tracks · 2:03:26Disc 1 1King's Herald4:32 2Paradise Rondel9:42 3Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra17:33 4Threnody for Cello and Orchestra9:13 5Pastoral Rhapsody12:26 6Procession4:38 Disc 21Suite for Orchestra "The B's": I. Overture: Bublum10:04 2Suite for Orchestra "The B's": II. Lament: Bartholomew7:39 3Suite for Orchestra "The B's": III. Scherzo: Blissy2:43 4Suite for Orchestra "The B's": IV. Mazurka alias Minuet: Bunny3:40 5Suite for Orchestra "The B's": V. March: Benjee8:25 6Three Dances for Violin and Orchestra: I. Giocoso molto5:32 7Three Dances for Violin and Orchestra: II. Quasi lento, quieto6:57 8Three Dances for Violin and Orchestra: III. Molto allegro2:08 9In Green Ways: I. Under the Greenwood Tree1:48 10In Green Ways: II. The Goat Paths8:13 11In Green Ways: III. Merry Margaret2:45 12In Green Ways: IV. Wanderer's Night Song4:23 13In Green Ways: V. On the Merry First of May1:05 | Compilation | February 2005 | |
| 2007 | Fantasy String Quartet / Rhapsodic Quintet / Piano QuartetSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 5 tracks · 53:181Piano Quartet in A minor, op. 21: I. Allegro moderato, tranquillo10:51 2Piano Quartet in A minor, op. 21: II. Lento, molto tranquillo9:58 3Piano Quartet in A minor, op. 21: III. Allegro molto, energico7:11 4Fantasy String Quartet, op. 2513:06 5Rhapsodic Quintet, op. 3112:12 | Compilation | 2007 | |
| 2009 | BBC Music, Volume 18, Number 4: Britten: St. Nicolas / Howells: Three Carol-AnthemsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 1:01:001A Spotless Rose3:25 2Sing Lullaby3:29 3Here Is the Little Door3:40 4Cantata, op. 42 “St. Nicolas”: I. Introduction5:48 5Cantata, op. 42 “St. Nicolas”: II. The Birth of Nicolas2:46 6Cantata, op. 42 “St. Nicolas”: III. Nicolas Devotes Himself to God4:41 7Cantata, op. 42 “St. Nicolas”: IV. He Journeys to Palestine7:47 8Cantata, op. 42 “St. Nicolas”: V. Nicolas Comes to Myra and Is Chosen Bishop6:36 9Cantata, op. 42 “St. Nicolas”: VI. Nicolas from Prison3:40 10Cantata, op. 42 “St. Nicolas”: VII. Nicolas and the Pickled Boys6:52 11Cantata, op. 42 “St. Nicolas”: VIII. His Piety and Marvellous Works5:22 12Cantata, op. 42 “St. Nicolas”: IX. The Death of Nicolas6:54 | Live | 23 November 2009 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Herbert Howells head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 42 | 93.1th |
| Studio albums | 38 | 98.8th |
| Awards recorded | 4 | 96.3th |
| Timeline events | 45 | 98.5th |
| Recording span (years) | -5 | 9th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire | won | |
| 1961 | honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge | won | |
| 1972 | Companion of Honour | won | |
| 1982 | honorary doctor of the Royal College of Music | won |
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