Judith Bingham: The Everlasting Crown

Judith Bingham: The Everlasting Crown

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Stephen Farr (organ)

Premiered at London's Royal Albert Hall during the 2011 BBC Proms, Judith Bingham's epic organ work The Everlasting Crown is here given its first recording. Based on a fictitious crown made up from real and famous gem stones, it is a work of amazing depth and range. Bingham draws on the mythologies and infamous owners of some of the world’s most precious stones, with each movement representing a different stone.

Celebrated organist Stephen Farr, who premiered the work, makes his Resonus Classics debut with The Everlasting Crown performed on the recently restored and impressive Harrison & Harrison organ of St Albans Cathedral.

Album booklet (PDF)

Tracklist

The Everlasting Crown

1. The Crown
2. Coranta: Atahualpa's Emerald
3. La Pelegrina
4. The Orlov Diamond
5. The Russian Spinel
6. King Edward's Sapphire
7. The Peacock Throne

‘[...] Farr is utterly outstanding, tracing the music across the seven movements with a kind of inexorable inevitability [...] repeated listening of this is an absolute pleasure.’

- International Record Review

Credits
© 2012 Resonus Limited
Ⓟ 2012 Resonus Limited
Catalogue No. RES10108
Producer, engineer & editor: Adam Binks
EAN: 5060262790076
Cover Image: King Edward the Confessor
(Left Panel of the Wilton Diptych, c. 1395) - restoredtraditions.com