Te Deum – John Featherstone

Te Deum classical-jazz-gospel: beyond musical frontiers

‘A diversity that explodes in every domain… musical, devotional, mood, time: a reconciliation of styles, traditions, history and modernity.’ Jean-Luc Gadreau

An innovative setting of this beautiful ancient prayer that moves us by its force and its humanity, the originality of this Te Deum lies in its diversity of styles managed with artistic coherence. Grounded in the historic tradition of sacred music, the work combines classical jazz and gospel styles in reconcliatory work.

Orchestrated for three vocal ensembles (Latin classical choir, English jazz-gospel vocal ensemble, French vocal quartet) and four musicians, the work last for an hour, divided into 12 movements.

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Recording

Recorded at Real World Studios,and distributed by Bayard Music and Pias, the CD brought together the Bath Camerata, BBC award-winning British Choir, conducted by Benjamin Goodson, côEnglish and French jazz-gospel singers from exceptional ensembles such as the ‘Swingles’, ‘Get Gospel’ or Kingdom Choir. . The singers are accompanied by four instrumentalists, on piano, percussion, double-bass and sax/clarinet, including regular players at Ronnie Scott’s.

In concert

The work has been performed by the Bath Camerata at the premiere at the Festival de Sevenoaks, and at the Temple du Saint Esprit, Paris, by the Choir of Grenelle at the Templede l’Etoile in Paris and at the Théâtre de Fontenay-le-Fleury and by the Ensemble Lux Aeterna in Strasbourg and Mulhouse.

A concert scheduled for 2020 with Cambridge Choir under the direction of Owain Park has been cancelled due to Covid-19. We are working on a concert in Cambridge summer 2022.

The Te Deum will be sung in Basel at the Festival Nacht des Glaubens on 17 June 2022.

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