Jesus, Springing
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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.Commissioned for Harrow School Chapel Choir, Jesus Springing is typical of Chilcotts lyrical and accessible style, suited to parish and school choirs that can sing in four parts and manage divided sopranos. The accompaniment is pianistic in some respects, but actually better suited to the organ and none too difficult. The setting of Kevin Crossley-Holland's poem is strophic, though each verse is scored differently. The music remains in E major: there is not a single accidental, giving a sense of gentle intensity.
Church Music Quarterly, December 2011
Crossley-Holland's words are excellent and thought-provoking and Bob Chilcott has clothed them in a trademark melody that is meditative and lyrical. The end result of this happy marriage of words and music is a touching little composition.
John Quinn, musicweb-international.com, October 2017