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Margaret Feaviour (soprano), Kim Porter (alto), Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (baritone), Siân Menna (mezzo), Jennifer Adams-Barbaro (soprano), Jacqueline Fox (mezzo), Robert Johnston (tenor) & Stuart MacIntyre (baritone)

BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury

Tippett's relationship with the BBC Singers went back almost to the beginning of his career, and he often expressed intense admiration of them. His faith is rewarded here. I don’t think I've... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Feb 2007
Catalogue No: SIGCD092
Label: Signum
Length: 62 minutes

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Excerpt, Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air

Work length4:35

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Tippett: Plebs angelica

Work length3:10

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Tippett: The Weeping Babe

Work length5:05

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Tippett: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense)

Work length6:58

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Magnificat

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Nun Dimittis

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Tippett: Hymn: Unto the Hills

Work length3:46

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Tippett: Four Songs from the British Isles

Work length13:28

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England - Early One Morning

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Ireland - Lilliburler

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Scotland - Poortith Cauld

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Wales - Gwenllian

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Tippett: Over the Sea to Skye

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Tippett: The Source

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Tippett: The Windhover

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Tippett: Lullaby

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Tippett: Five Negro Spirituals From The Oratorio "A Child Of Our Time"

Work length12:09

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Steal Away

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Nobody Knows

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Go Down, Moses

Track length3:02

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By & By

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Deep River

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April 2007

Tippett's relationship with the BBC Singers went back almost to the beginning of his career, and he often expressed intense admiration of them. His faith is rewarded here. I don’t think I've ever heard things like the tortuous chromatic writing at the heart of The Weeping Babe come across with such conviction.

2010

Tippett's choral music makes for a heterogeneous collection on disc: just the sort of programme you would never expect to encounter at a live concert. Signum Classics underlines the heterogeneity by cramming the 19 items together with only a few brief seconds between them. This makes for several jarring shifts of tonality, and seems especially careless since the disc plays for under 63 minutes anyway. Constant use of the pause button is the only solution.
Fortunately, the performances compensate.
The polish and professionalism of the BBC Singers are everywhere apparent, and they bring an imposing tonal weight to such familiar items as the Spirituals from 'A Child of Our Time'. This is a fine account, aided by the lively acoustic of the Temple Church: for once one hardly misses the orchestra in 'Go down, Moses'. For the same reason the absence of boys' voices in the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for St John's College, Cambridge, and of a plangent solo countertenor in Lullaby, for the Deller Consort, are less troubling than they might otherwise be.
Stephen Cleobury and the BBC Singers are especially impressive in the weaving lines and dancing rhythms of the madrigals and motets from the 1940s. Even they can do little to clarify the congested textures of the Songs from the BritishIsles, but there are two previously unrecorded items: an arrangement of 'Over the Sea to Skye' weaves the familiar tune in some appealingly offbeat counterpoints, and a hymn-tune written by the atheist Tippett for the Salvation Army proves to be touchingly sincere.

Scarcely time to draw breath but the BBC Singers offer a winning Tippett set.

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