J.A.C. Redford: Love Bade Me Welcome London Voices & Ben Parry

• J.A.C. Redford (b. 1953): All Shall Be Well (for unaccompanied choir):
• 1 Redford: All Shall Be Well (for unaccompanied choir) 02:08
• The Singing Bowl:
• 2 Redford: The Singing Bowl 04:44
• Love Bade Me Welcome:
• 3 Redford: Love Bade Me Welcome 04:48
• Who hears the ocean roaring in a tree:
• 4 Redford: Who hears the ocean roaring in a tree 02:36
• Wake Up, My Spirit:
• 5 Redford: Wake Up, My Spirit 04:01
• O Sacrum Convivium:
• 6 Redford: O Sacrum Convivium 03:57
• Ave Verum Corpus:
• 7 Redford: Ave Verum Corpus 04:04
• Pied Beauty:
• 8 Redford: Pied Beauty 03:21
• There is a fear men flee not from but to:
• 9 Redford: There is a fear men flee not from but to 02:40
• A touch of incommunicable pain:
• 10 Redford: A touch of incommunicable pain 03:27
• The Mirrors:
• 11 Redford: The Mirrors 05:46
• She's Like the Swallow:
• 12 Redford: She's Like the Swallow 07:03
• Time and a Summer's Day:
• 13 Redford: Time and a Summer's Day 05:07
• Great Is the Lord:
• 14 Redford: Great Is the Lord 04:35
• Straight for My Home:
• 15 Redford: Straight for My Home 04:19
• All Shall Be Well (for choir and orchestra):
• 16 Redford: All Shall Be Well (for choir and orchestra) 03:27
• Total Runtime 01:06:03

Info for J.A.C. Redford: Love Bade Me Welcome

LOVE BADE ME WELCOME is a collection of choral music from composer J.A.C. Redford exploring spirituality, love, and the human experience. Blending traditional forms with contemporary harmonies and time-honored texts, Redford sets the poetry of Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, George Herbert, and more. By employing distinctive gestures and a range of vocal timbres, the composer offers sensitive musical interpretations of each poem, from the serene resonance of The Singing Bowl to the Old Testament drama of Who Hears the Ocean Roaring in a Tree. In giving voice to these humanistic texts, LOVE BADE ME WELCOME is a compelling invitation to self-reflection.

London Voices
Ben Parry, conductor

Ben Parry
studied Music and History of Art at Cambridge University, and was a member of King’s College Choir. In the mid-1980s he joined the international vocal group, The Swingle Singers as a singer, arranger and music director, toured globally and performed with some of the world’s greatest musicians including Stephane Grappelli, Pierre Boulez and Dizzy Gillespie. Moving to Edinburgh in 1995, he co-founded the Dunedin Consort, which has gone on to establish itself as Scotland’s premiere Baroque ensemble. He also took up posts as Director of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus, Director of Choral Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and conductor of Haddo House Opera.

He moved back to England in 2003, becoming Director of Music at St. Paul’s School, London, then of Junior Academy at the Royal Academy of Music. He has recently stepped down as Principal Conductor of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain after nearly 11 successful years. As Director of London Voices he has performed in major concert houses around the world as well as conducting many major film soundtracks including Harry Potter, The Hobbit and Avengers. Ben was Assistant Director of Music at King’s College, Cambridge, until 2022. As an orchestral conductor he has worked with the Academy of Ancient Music, Britten Sinfonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony, London Philharmonic and BBC Concert Orchestras.

Parry’s own compositions and arrangements include the popular Faber Carol Book and a burgeoning catalogue of choral music for Peters Edition, OUP and Stainer & Bell. He has enjoyed commissions from, among others, St John’s College, Cambridge, the BBC Singers, National Youth Choir, Chelmsford, Ely, Norwich and Worcester cathedrals, and his music has been heard at the BBC Proms and on the TV and radio. He is also a regular composer of production music for some major UK library music companies. Ben features on the credits of well over 300 recordings, appearing variously as singer, conductor, director, producer, chorus master and composer.

London Voices
Founded in 1973 by Terry Edwards, former Director of the Royal Opera House Chorus, London Voices is now managed and directed by Ben Parry, conductor, composer and formerly Artistic Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. The choir has performed throughout Europe, Asia and the USA and can range from a small vocal consort through to a choir of more than 100 singers. The choir has tackled a vast array of repertoire ranging from Renaissance polyphony (Tallis at Luzern Festival) to contemporary music (Frank Zappa at Southbank Centre, London) as well as featuring on recordings as diverse as opera, oratorio, Coldplay, German Heavy Metal and Ozzy Osbourne.

The ensemble has collaborated with many distinguished composers and conductors including John Adams, Semyon Bychkov, Bernard Haitink, Vladimir Jurowski, György Ligeti, Vasily Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle and Georg Solti. It had a particularly close association with composer Luciano Berio, performing his Sinfonia on many occasions (most recently at the 2018 BBC Proms), as well as works including Coro, Cries of London, A‑Ronne, Laborintus II and Folk Songs. The choir also performed in the world première of Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht, staged by Birmingham Opera in 2012. It has given concerts globally, in locations including Aldeburgh, Beijing, Berlin, Birmingham, Munich, Jordan, Lucerne, New York, St Denis, Shanghai and Turkey.

London Voices is well-known for singing on hundreds of movie and computer game soundtracks, including Abzu, Distant Worlds (Final Fantasy), Halo 5, the Harry Potter, Hobbit, Star Wars, Hunger Games and Lord of the Rings film series, Spectre, Grand Budapest Hotel (Oscar® for Best Soundtrack) and recently appearing on-screen in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. London Voices provided singers for Bradley Cooper’s recent biopic of Maestro, singing the solos in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Symphony no.3 and The Mass. It has participated on many operatic and choral recordings and has collaborated with musicians including Dave Brubeck, Renée Fleming, Ellie Goulding, Sir Paul McCartney, Sam Smith, Sting, Sir Bryn Terfel and Roger Waters.

J.A.C. Redford
is a composer, arranger, orchestrator and conductor of concert, chamber and choral music, film, television and theater scores, and music for recordings.

Artists and ensembles that have performed his work include: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Joshua Bell, Liona Boyd, Cantus, Chicago Symphony, De Angelis Vocal Ensemble, Debussy Trio, Israel Philharmonic, Kansas City Chorale, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Anne Akiko Meyers, Millennium Consort Singers, New York Philharmonic, Phoenix Chorale, Staatskapelle Dresden, St. Martin’s Chamber Choir, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Utah Chamber Artists and Utah Symphony.

His music has been featured on programs at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Lincoln Center in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and London’s Royal Albert Hall. He composed the Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission for the American Choral Directors Association 2017 National Conference in Minneapolis, MN.

Redford has written the scores for more than three dozen feature films, TV movies or miniseries, including The Trip to Bountiful, One Night with the King, What the Deaf Man Heard, Mama Flora’s Family and Disney’s Oliver & Company, Newsies and The Mighty Ducks II and III. He has composed the music for nearly 500 episodes of series television, including multiple seasons of Coach and St. Elsewhere (for which he received two Emmy nominations).

His incidental music has been heard in theatrical productions at the Matrix Theater in Los Angeles and South Coast Repertory Theater in Costa Mesa, California, as well as in the American Playhouse series on PBS. Two of his musical comedies are published by Dramatic Publishing and performed frequently across North America.

Collaborating with other artists, Redford has orchestrated, arranged or conducted for Academy Award-winning composers, James Horner, Alan Menken, Randy Newman and Rachel Portman and John Williams, as well as for Terence Blanchard, Danny Elfman, Simon Franglen, Mark Isham, Thomas Newman, Marc Shaiman, and Cirque du Soleil’s Benoit Jutras, on projects including The Little Mermaid, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Perfect Storm, WALL-E, Avatar, Skyfall, Bridge of Spies, 1917, and most recently Avatar: The Way of Water, A Man Called Otto, and Elemental. He orchestrated and conducted Adele’s Oscar-winning title song for Skyfall, wrote arrangements for Joshua Bell’s Voice of the Violin, At Home with Friends and Musical Gifts recordings, Anne Akiko Meyers’ Serenade: The Love Album, and has written for and recorded with other Grammy Award-winning artists Steven Curtis Chapman, Bonnie Raitt and Sting.

He has produced, arranged, and conducted music for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and served as a consultant for the Sundance Film Institute, a teacher in the Artists-in-Schools program for the National Endowment for the Arts, a guest lecturer at USC and UCLA, and on the Music Branch Executive Committees for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Redford’s music is published by Hal Leonard, G. Schirmer, Roger Dean, Mark Foster, Fred Bock, Fatrock Ink, and Plough Down Sillion Music. He is the author of Welcome All Wonders: A Composer’s Journey, published by Baker Books. His many recordings include eight collections of his concert, chamber and choral music, The Alphabet of Revelation, Confessiones, Eternity Shut in a Span, Evening Wind, The Growing Season, Inside Passage, Let Beauty Be Our Memorial and Waltzing with Shadows.

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