A Hymne to Christ - Imogen Holst | Amplify Female Composer Fridays

A Hymne to Christ | Imogen Holst (1907-1984)
Sung by: The Choir of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montréal, Québec, Recorded in November 2021
Conductor: Andrew Hon
“A Hymne to Christ” was composed by Imogen Holst (1907-1984), daughter of Gustav Holst, most recognized for his large-scale orchestral work “The Planets,” which contains the melody Thaxted commonly sung with “I Vow to Thee My Country.” Imogen was a composer, conductor, musicologist and teacher, student of Herbert Howells, assistant and later joint-director of the Aldeburgh Festival with Benjamin Britten.
This piece appears in Multitude of Voyces Vol. 1, a brand-new collection of music by women composers.
John Donne wrote this one of his Divine Poems while he was traveling “across the sea to Germany” as a chaplain in 1619. He invokes the imagery of nature, going into the unknown, leaving behind the familiar, comfortable things as he sails, leaving only God: “In what torn ship, so ever I embark, that ship shall be the emblem of Thy ark… I sacrifice this island unto Thee, and all whom I love there, and who loved me: When I have put our seas ‘twixt them and me, Put thou Thy seas betwixt my sins and Thee.”
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