Te Deum – John Featherstone

Te Deum classical-jazz-gospel : crossing musical barriers

‘A diversity which explodes in every domain… musical, devotional, atmospheric, temporal… a reconciliation of styles, traditions, history and modernity.’ Regards Protestants

An innovative setting of this beautiful ancient prayer which moves us with its force and its humanity. With its seamlessly connected musical diversity, the composition reconciles a respect for our musical roots with a desire to build creatively on that heritage, engaging a public with different backgrounds, tastes and traditions in a unique reconciliatory dialogue between different musical worlds..

Orchestrated for three constrasting vocal ensembles (singing in Latin, English and French), piano, percussion, double bass and sax.

The recording

Recorded at Real World Studios, distributed by Bayard Musique and Pias, the album brought together Bath Camerata, BBC prizewinning British choir, directed by Benjamin Goodson, surrounded byEnglish and French jazz and gospel singers, who worked withSwingles’, ‘Get Gospel’ ou Kingdom Choir . Accompanied by 4 instrumentalists on piano, percussion, double bass and sax/clarinette, including regulars at Ronnie Scott’s

In concert

The work has been sung by Bath Camerata at the first UK performance at Sevenoaks Festival, and the first French performance at the Temple du Saint Esprit, Paris. the choeur de Grenelle at the Temple de l’Etoile in Paris, the Théâtre de Fontenay-le-Fleury and at the Stadcasino in Bâle, for the Swiss Festival ‘Nacht des Glaubens’, by l’Ensemble Lux Aeterna in Strasbourg and Mulhouse, and by Cambridge Chorale at St Pauls Hills Road Cambridge.

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