Three Choirs Festival Concert: Hereford (1927)

This set of four HMV discs constituted the first-ever recording of the Three Choirs Festival. The photograph shows the HMV mobile recording van outside of Hereford Cathedral making this actual recording. The concert featured the cathedral choirs of Hereford, Worcester & Gloucester, with the London Symphony Orchestra and soloists Horace Stevens, Margaret Balfour and Tudor Davies, conducted (with the exception of the Brewer item) by Sir Edward Elgar.

Go to the Historic Recording page of the Archive website for more photographs of this historic event.
http://www.recordedchurchmusic.org/historic-recordings/threechoirs

HMV 4 record set : 1927

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Track 1. For we are afar (The Music Makers) (Edward Elgar)
Track 2. With wonderful deathless ditties (The Music Makers) (Edward Elgar)
Track 3. Nunc Dimittis (Herbert Brewer)*
Track 4. Fanfare and National Anthem (arr. Edward Elgar)

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Track 5. Take me away (Dream of Gerontius) (Edward Elgar)
Track 6. Jesus by that shuddering dread (Dream of Gerontius) (Edward Elgar)

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Track 7. We are the music makers (The Music Makers) (Edward Elgar)
Track 8. A breath of our inspiration (The Music Makers) (Edward Elgar)

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Track 9. O pray for me (Dream of Gerontius) (Edward Elgar)
Track 10. O Jesu, help (Dream of Gerontius) (Edward Elgar)

* conducted by the composer

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