SINGING ST. LOUIS
For over fifty years the Chamber Chorus has been fortunate to attract the talents not only of performers, but also of arrangers and composers. This disc brings together some of the more notable of these to constitute a programme of both sacred and secular pieces, taking the group from the music of its founder Ronald Arnatt to the present day. With the exception of Te Lucis Ante Terminum, all tracks on this compact disc are world première recordings. The disc is accompanied by a booklet containing both texts and translations, together with informative articles on the composers and on the Chorus's conductor, Philip Barnes.
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Release date: November 11, 2001
For sound samples of selected tracks, click on the play button in front of the title to hear the first 45 seconds of the piece.
Sacred Music
1. God Be In My Head — Carolee Coombs-Stacy
Five Hymns from The Sacred Harp — Martha Shaffer
2. Sweet Canaan
3. King of Peace
4. The Traveler
5. I Would See Jesus
6. Foundation
Two Movements from Requiem for St. Louis — Sasha Johnson Manning
7. Requiem Aeternam
8. Dies Irae
Missa St. Louis — Charles Collins
9. Kyrie
10. Gloria
11. Credo
12. Sanctus & Benedictus
13. Agnus Dei
14. Te Lucis Ante Terminum — S. William Aitken
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Secular Music
15. Music and Ceremonies — Ronald Arnatt
16. The Ship Starting — Audrey Kooper Hammann
17. The Water of Tyne — arr. Stuart McIntosh
Asian Sketches — Robert Charles Howard
18. Night in the Villa by the River
19. My Thoughts are with a Boat
20. A Still Pool
21. My Love is like the Grasses
22. A Contemplation upon Flowers — Richard Rodney Bennett
23. On A Bus To St. Cloud — Gretchen Peters, arr. Stuart McIntosh