ABSTRACT
Voces Clamantium and The Love That Casteth Out Fear, composed for the Hereford and Gloucester Festivals of 1903 and 1904, respectively, were favored by H. Walford Davies, who performed them regularly with organ accompaniment at the Temple Church, where he was Director of Music. Though Voces Clamantium was heard at Gloucester in 1928, it was not until 1981 that it was recorded by Jonathan Rennert, Darke's successor at St. Michael's Cornhill, who conducted while, remarkably, Thalben-Ball returned to the console to accompany as he had sixty years earlier. Additionally, in the same year, Voces Clamantium was performed with orchestra by the Kensington Symphony Orchestra and Choir conducted by Leslie Head. The lines are set for chorus and soloists in episodes linked by a framework of orchestral commentary and, hence, the form is a through composed construction. The aural experience provided by the revivals of some of the works complemented the scholarship that contextualized them.
