When I survey the wondrous cross de Antony Baldwin

When I survey the wondrous cross

Antony Baldwin

en Limba Engleză Sheet music – 14 feb 2002

for SATB choir and organThis is a deeply affecting arrangement based on the folk-tune 'O Waly Waly'. It is simplicity itself, but so well-crafted that one is likely not to notice that it is, in fact, very easy. It will make a profound effect in Passiontide or at Easter, or as a general anthem.

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This anthem is the result of a good idea, superbly realized: to combine Isaac Watts's hymn text with the tune of 'O Waly Waly'. They fit like a glove, both in mood and in details of the word setting . . . The music could not have been arranged more simply with a unison, unaccompanied first verse, two-part second, SATB third, and unison with descant fourth, accompanied sparingly until the last verse. Simplicity here evokes profundity, thanks to the skill of the arrangement.

Notă biografică

Antony Baldwin was born in London. His early years were spent as a choirboy at Southwark Cathedral, London. At the age of 17, he was awarded the Associateship Diploma of the Royal College of Organists, winning the prize for harmony and counterpoint, and earned the Fellowship a year later. He studied at the Universities of Oxford and Durham, and afterwards embarked upon a career in teaching, organ-playing and choir-training. Baldwin has made regular visits to the United States as a recitalist and formed his own chamber choir in California. He is currently Organist at the American Church in London.