Portsmouth Cathedral Carol Album Featured in BBC Music Magazine
The Christmas edition of BBC Music Magazine features eighteen pieces from Advent and Christmas from Portsmouth Cathedral Choir and the Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Collingwood recorded earlier this autumn with Signum Records.
George Richford wore multiple hats with this recording, and tells us more.
“First of all, I wrote some fanfares for this CD, in the capacity as a composer. But it also included the band of Collingwood which included some of my former trainees. So a different hat there. And it also featured Portsmouth Cathedral Choir with whom I sing. And fourthly, I was producing it. I do a lot of producing for various different record labels, from Signum through to Convivium Records. So I had four different hats on.
“This was an excellent opportunity to combine these various forces. But this is a particularly exciting project simply because of the reach of BBC Music magazine, which I think has got a circulation of about 75,000 – that’s pretty significant for any classical music publication.
“So hopefully everyone will be turning on Christmas Day and listening to get their CD out and be listening to Portsmouth Cathedral and the Collingwood band. I think a lot of this came off the back of the fact that the Portsmouth Cathedral did the BBC live midnight mass broadcast last year.
“BBC Music magazine approached me to do this project, which was really exciting. It’s a wide selection of music, indicative of what Portsmouth Cathedral choir can do, with a huge repertoire.
“It’s got some local flavour on it as well. That’s really important – in that way people get an idea of the place. There’s a piece called Let us light a candle, and that’s written by one of the lay clerk’s mothers, June Clark. There’s Philip Stopford’s There is no rose; Philip is a big supporter of Portsmouth and has got involved with Cathedral music from time to time. So these are pieces certainly have a certain resonance here.”
George Richford wore multiple hats with this recording, and tells us more.
“First of all, I wrote some fanfares for this CD, in the capacity as a composer. But it also included the band of Collingwood which included some of my former trainees. So a different hat there. And it also featured Portsmouth Cathedral Choir with whom I sing. And fourthly, I was producing it. I do a lot of producing for various different record labels, from Signum through to Convivium Records. So I had four different hats on.
“This was an excellent opportunity to combine these various forces. But this is a particularly exciting project simply because of the reach of BBC Music magazine, which I think has got a circulation of about 75,000 – that’s pretty significant for any classical music publication.
“So hopefully everyone will be turning on Christmas Day and listening to get their CD out and be listening to Portsmouth Cathedral and the Collingwood band. I think a lot of this came off the back of the fact that the Portsmouth Cathedral did the BBC live midnight mass broadcast last year.
“BBC Music magazine approached me to do this project, which was really exciting. It’s a wide selection of music, indicative of what Portsmouth Cathedral choir can do, with a huge repertoire.
“It’s got some local flavour on it as well. That’s really important – in that way people get an idea of the place. There’s a piece called Let us light a candle, and that’s written by one of the lay clerk’s mothers, June Clark. There’s Philip Stopford’s There is no rose; Philip is a big supporter of Portsmouth and has got involved with Cathedral music from time to time. So these are pieces certainly have a certain resonance here.”
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