for unison/SATB choir and organ Geoffrey Webber has made a skilful arrangement for SATB of Peter Tranchell's unison setting of Heber's well-known hymn; both are presented here. The harmonies display Tranchell's typical style and need some careful tuning.
Reviews
The striking chromaticism of the organ part in the unison version (especially on âour sins are deadâ) is skilfully incorporated in the SATB in a way that makes vocal sense. The choir is supported throughout by the original organ part so that it is nothing like as tricky as it would be otherwise. It is a useful and original communion motet. * James L. Montgomery, www.rscm.org.uk Sunday by Sunday, June 2019 *
Peter Tranchell (1922-1993) was a British composer born in Cuddalore, India. Tranchell studied at the Dragon School, Oxford, and Clifton College, Bristol, and then studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge before switching to Music; he interrupted his degree to serve in the Indian Army during the Second World War. Tranchell became a Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge in 1950, and additionally became Fellow, Precentor and Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, in 1960, retiring in 1989. As a composer his output ranged widely from sacred choral works and instrumental miniatures to orchestral works and operas, notably the The Mayor of Casterbridge (1951).
