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Delius: | Midsummer Song The Louis Halsey Singers On Craig Dhu (An impression of nature) The Louis Halsey Singers To be sung of a summer night on the water, Nos. 1 & 2 The Louis Halsey Singers The splendour falls on castle walls The Louis Halsey Singers | Elgar: | As torrents in summer The Louis Halsey Singers My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land Op. 18 No. 3 The Louis Halsey Singers Go, song of mine, Op. 57 The Louis Halsey Singers O Wild West Wind The Louis Halsey Singers The Shower The Louis Halsey Singers Love's tempest, Op. 73 No. 1 The Louis Halsey Singers Owls The Louis Halsey Singers The Fountain The Louis Halsey Singers There is sweet music, Op. 53 No. 1 The Louis Halsey Singers Deep in my soul The Louis Halsey Singers | Parry: | Songs of Farewell The Louis Halsey Singers | Stanford: | Heraclitus (Callimachus, trs William Cory) Op. 110 No. 4 (1910, arr 1918) The Louis Halsey Singers Sweet love for me The Louis Halsey Singers My love's an arbutus (Old Irish air) The Louis Halsey Singers Veneta The Louis Halsey Singers Chillingham The Louis Halsey Singers Shall we go dance The Louis Halsey Singers | trad.: | Captain Bover Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers A fair maid Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers I sowed the seeds of love Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers Wassail Song Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers Bushes and Briars Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers O Waly, Waly ('The Water is Wide') Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers Dance to your Daddy Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers Bobby Shaftoe Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers Adam Buckham O! Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers I love my Love Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers The Sailor and Young Nancy Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Wilfrid Parry, piano Elizabethan Singers Our Captain calls all hands Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Wilfrid Parry, piano Elizabethan Singers Bonny at Morn Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Wilfrid Parry, piano Elizabethan Singers Soul Cake Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano)Wilfrid Parry, piano Elizabethan Singers Down among the dead men Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Wilfrid Parry, piano Elizabethan Singers Brigg Fair Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Wilfrid Parry, piano Elizabethan Singers Early One Morning Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Wilfrid Parry, piano Elizabethan Singers Derwentwater’s Farewell Owen Brannigan (bass) & Wilfrid Parry (piano) Elizabethan Singers |
During the 1960s, Louis Halsey, together with the Elizabethan Singers and The Louis Halsey Singers made a number of recordings of British choral music for Decca. Three LPs devoted to the music of Parry, Elgar, Stanford and Delius and of folk song settings by a range of British composers, are here collected on this 2CD set, all of this material released on CD for the first time. Though his magnificent choral piece Jerusalem eclipses much of his other work, the beautiful Songs of Farewell, written during the last three years of his life must be counted among the masterpieces of English choral music. Diana McVeagh describes the Elgar choral songs as ‘elaborate, expansive, and gorgeous as sheer sound’ and so they are in these wonderful performances. All but one of Delius’s partsongs were recorded for the original LP and the disc of folk songs arranged by Tippett, Williamson, Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Holst and other front-rank British composers is charming and amusing. Original LP notes (including a very persuasive one by Louis Halsey himself) are reprinted in the booklet. “admirable performances and recording. Louis Halsey's choir, with its almost boy-like sopranos, is just right for these motets, while the recording sets them resonantly, as if in a cathedral. The choir sings its magnificently singable lines with evident appreciation of their moving beauty, obviously inspired by Halsey, whose heart is in the music” Gramophone Magazine (Parry, Stanford) “Louis Halsey is obviously much in sympathy with both composers and gets most responsive singing from his choir, with excellent diction” Gramophone Magazine (Elgar, Delius) “Halsey has helped to set a new standard in such choral singing, one of the splendid bonuses of the King's tradition, from which Halsey stems. Recording first-rate as one would expect from Argo” Gramophone Magazine (Folk songs) | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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This newly recorded CD, made in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge in 2010, is only the second to be made by an independent label featuring this world-famous Choir. Sir David Willcocks, who celebrated his 90th birthday in December 2009, was Director of Music at King's from 1957 to 1974, during which time he made a number of - now legendary - recordings. This Priory CD, featuring a number of Sir David's own choral works, is the first commercial recording he has made with the Choir for 36 years: it also includes artists and forces from musical organisations with which he has been associated. We are therefore very privileged to be able to include this issue in our catalogue. | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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