Henry Walford [Walford] Davies (06/09/1869 - 11/03/1941), an English/Welsh organist, composer and educationist (from Oswestry).
Source: | Grove’s dictionary of music and musicians |
Davies is known to Englishmen of an earlier generation as an effective popularizer of classical music through radio talks and, though he wrote several piano quintets, a symphony and two string quartets, besides a piece for organ and cello and several others of which one should mention the Memorial Melody, written for the death of King George VI (Davies was Master of the King's Music).
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Psalm 121 and Requiem aeternam
Period: | Expressionism |
Musical form: | psalm & mass fragment |
Text/libretto: | English and Latin |
Duration: | 4'18'' |
Label(s): | Collegium Records CSACD 902 |
Psalm 121 and Requiem aeternam is scored for unaccompanied mixed choir.
♫ Psalm 121 & Requiem aeterna
Collegium Records CSACD 902
Source: | booklet of cd Collegium Records CSACD 902 |
A short requiem
Period: | Expressionism |
Composed in: | 1915 |
Musical form: | free |
Text/libretto: | Latin texts |
In memory of: | the fallen of World War I |
Label(s): | CD of The Princeton Singers |
This requiem contains:
01. Salvator Mundi
02. De profundis clamavi
03. Requiem aeternam (1)
04. Levavi oculos
05. Requiem aeternam (2)
06. Audivi vocem
07 Hymn: Mors ui tra non erit
08. Gloria Patri
Requiem
Period: | Expressionism |
Composed in: | 1931 |
Musical form: | song |
Text/libretto: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) |
"Requiem", published 1931, for voice and piano, from the collection Twenty-one songs.
The text of "Requiem" by Stevenson:
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
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R.L. Stevenson
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