Schola Cantorum Oxford - Children of our Time
Schola Cantorum Oxford - Children of our Time
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
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Tippett: 5 Negro Spirituals
+Pitts: Thou knowest my lying down
+O'Neill: Ave verum corpus
+Byrchmore: In the silence of the night
+Smith: 5 Madrigals to poems by EE Cummings
+Rodrigues: Eres
+Pott: Amore langueo
- Künstler: Schola Cantorum of Oxford
- Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2005
- Bestellnummer: 7646175
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.5.2006
Product-Information:
In 1978 Schola Cantorum of Oxford—the university’s acclaimed chamber choir—recorded Tippett’s Five Negro Spirituals from A child of our time. Sir Michael wrote, in his sleeve note accompanying the LP release on L’Oiseau Lyre (DSLO 25, re-issued on CD Belart 461 628-2, no longer available): ‘I had never heard the complete set till the recording sessions. I then realised that the sound of these songs when sung thus is quite different from their original settings in the oratorio. They became, as it were, the huge voice of a crowd of folk singing together. It should be clear from the above account of all the variety of pieces on this [all-Tippett] disc how remarkable and resilient a group of young singers the Schola Cantorum of Oxford is, under their equally young, gifted conductor Nicholas Cleobury.’ Some twenty years later, under Jeremy Summerly, the choir was asked to make a new recording of the Spirituals to mark the ninetieth birthday of the composer, by then the group’s long-standing Patron. This new disc—never previously released—is the result of those sessions, where the Tippett works are complemented by recordings of the winning entries in an international composition competition organized by the choir and other works written for it around the same time. And what an astonishing display of choral pyrotechnics this produced. From the seductive intricacies of Mark Edgley Smith’s E E Cummings settings, through the blues-infused harmonies of Antony Pitts’s polychoral Thou knowest my lying down, to the extended genius of Francis Pott’s Amore langueo (containing what Summerly describes as ‘one of the great moments in English choral music from any period’), this new disc offers fascinating discoveries to the choral aficionado and seventy minutes of the very finest choral experience to all. All works, apart from the Tippett and Pitts, are first recordings.
Rezensionen
'...you may confidently invest in this disc. Its musical rewards are ample' (Fanfare, USA)
'This disc offers considerable rewards in an admittedly parochial field, and also preserves a delectable snap-shot of the Schola Cantorum of Oxford on outstanding form, over a decade ago' (International Record Review)
'Here's a vital and beautifully performed collection of modern a cappella choral music from a most excellent choir with a considerable recording history ... It's not a surprise that Mr Summerly and his choir can handle fiendishly difficult modern music with all of the skill, authority and pleasing sound they bring to early music. Hyperion comes through again with a superior booklet and enviable recording quality' (American Record Guide)
- Tracklisting
- Details
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
3 Easter anthems (Auszug)
- 1 Nr. 2: Thou knowest my lying down
A Child of our Time (Oratorium): 5 Negro Spirituals (Auszug)
- 2 Nr. 1: Steal away
- 3 Nicholas O'Neill: Ave verum corpus
A Child of our Time (Oratorium): 5 Negro Spirituals (Auszug)
- 4 Nr. 2: Nobody knows
In the silence of the night
- 5 1. Echo
- 6 2. Song
- 7 3. Mirage
A Child of our Time (Oratorium): 5 Negro Spirituals (Auszug)
- 8 Nr. 3: Go down, Moses
5 Madrigale (E. E. cummings)
- 9 Nr. 1: Now I lay (with everywhrer around)
- 10 Nr. 2: Spring! may
- 11 Nr. 3: Love is more thicker than forget
- 12 Nr. 4: O by the by
- 13 Nr. 5: Waht a proud dreamhorse
A Child of our Time (Oratorium): 5 Negro Spirituals (Auszug)
- 14 Nr. 4: By and by
- 15 Eugénio Manuel Rodrigues: Eres...
A Child of our Time (Oratorium): 5 Negro Spirituals (Auszug)
- 16 Nr. 5: Deep river
- 17 Francis Pott: Amore langueo
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