Alleluia! Alleluia! Hearts to Heaven

Christopher Maxim has forged a distinctive and consistent compositional style that always demands respect. This festal anthem, setting verses from Bishop Christopher Wordsworth’s hymn, would suite Eastertide, harvest or other services of praise. Maxim’s organ writing is always idiomatic: here he achieves the neat trick of writing an accompaniment that is both dramatic and technically not overly demanding. The same applies for the vocal parts which are sympathetically written but with just the right level of technical challenge to be satisfying. Jaunty irregular rhythms, strong melodic writing and good, crunchy tonal harmonies make this a fine sing.
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