, All Saints
For All the Saints
Ralph Vaughan Williams (SINE NOMINE)
Recording
Wells Cathedral Choir, Rupert Gough (organ), Malcolm Archer
- Album
- The English Hymn 1 – Christ Triumphant (Great 20th-Century Hymns)
- Year
- 1999
- Length
- Period
- Hymn
- Listen
Painting
Osservanza Master
All Saints in an Initial E or O, ca. 1430–40
The piece
William Walsham How's text was first printed in 1864 in Earl Nelson's Hymns for Saints' Days, and Vaughan Williams wrote the tune SINE NOMINE for The English Hymnal of 1906. Each verse closes on a double Alleluia over a walking bass in the organ.
The recording
Wells Cathedral Choir recorded it in Wells Cathedral in June 1999 under Malcolm Archer, with Rupert Gough at the organ, for the first volume of Hyperion's English Hymn series. Gramophone wrote of the album that "tone, enunciation, resourcefulness of arrangement and accompaniment, all are exemplary."
Other recordings
The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, recorded it on A Vaughan Williams Hymnal, and St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir on The Complete New English Hymnal.