Beatitudes
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Bob Chilcott has become one of the world's most widely performed composers and arrangers of choral music. His compositional output reflects his wide taste in music styles and his commitment to writing music that is both singable and communicative. He has been involved in choral music most of his life he was a chorister and then a choral scholar in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the British vocal group The King's Singers for whom he made a number of popular arrangements of well-known songs from all genres. As well as being a full-time composer he is also a highly acclaimed choral conductor. He has been privileged to conduct many choirs all over the world. He is Principal Guest Conductor of The BBC Singers and in 2019 he was appointed Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers. His music has been widely recorded by many choirs and groups including The King's Singers, Tenebrae, and The BBC Singers.Bob Chilcott seems now to be very much the leading figure within the OUP stable of choral composers, even having his own individually styled imprint within the catalogue . . . Chilcott's carefully structured anthem, for SATB choir and organ, employs characteristically warm, major-key harmonies, and throws the clinching emphasis on the final verses of Christ's sermon which clebrate the role of the persecuted in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew Greenall, The Singer, June 06
Two new well-crafted anthems by Bob Chilcott are within the grasp of any amateur choir. The Beatitudes is the more immediately accessible of the two with its filmic theme and gentle added-note organ harmonies.
Peter Dale, Choir and Organ July 06