SATB choir
SKU:
ST.CN28P
Composed by
Ronald Corp. This PRINTED
version is available to
purchase as a regular
sheet music title for
delivery by post. Octavo.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#CN28P. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.CN28P).
ISBN
9790220225536.
Both
as composer and
conductor, Ronald Corp is
steeped in the English
choral tradition, and in
A Spotless Rose he has
traversed by his own path
the hallowed ground of
words immortalised by
Herbert Howells. Corp's
own music, chordal yet
contrapuntal, and
likewise redolent in its
modality of a distant
past 'of ancient seers'
foreshowing', flows
smoothly in flexible
rhythm, each voice a
shapely strophic melody.
Mindful of the famous
close of Howells's
setting, Corp concludes
with an exquisite ending
all of his own. A
Spotless Rose was
written for the Highgate
Choral Society, who gave
the world premiere on 2
December 2017 at St
Michael's Church,
Highgate.