Saint Louis Classics

The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus is extremely adept at singing testing works in foreign languages. There are many goodies to savour here, particularly Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden, in which Schoenberg... — Choir & Organ, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Jun 2018
Catalogue No: REGCD505
Label: Regent

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Bantock: Invocation to Pan

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

Chilcott: Silver Swan

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

Gibbons, O: The Silver Swan

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

Grechaninov: All-Night Vigil, Op. 59 "Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye"

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

Harris, Roy: Songs of Democracy (3)

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

Kodály: Jézus és a kufárok

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, Op. 13

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

Schumann: Romanzen und Balladen für Chor Heft I, Op. 67

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

Sibelius: Rakastava, Op. 14

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

Vaughan Williams: O praise the Lord of Heaven

Saint Louis Chamber Chorus
Philip Barnes

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The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus has a proud tradition of commissioning new works many of which have featured on their previous CD releases on Regent, but much of its repertoire is drawn from the canon of unaccompanied choral music covering five centuries and more, this recording demonstrates how adept the singers are at performing a variety of musical styles and languages in a programme spanning several centuries and nationalities.

This new disc features works inspired by classical mythology, such as Bantock’s Invocation to Pan, and works that have become ‘classics’ in the field of choral music, such as Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden - one of the greatest a capella choral masterpieces. This recording also features one of the Chorus’s recent commissions, Bob Chilcott’s Silver swan. This setting for a capella double choir of Orlando Gibbons and Catullus is a free re-working of Gibbons’s famous 17th-century madrigal. It retains the lilting depiction of the swan and the original composer's love of antiphonal effects and rich texture.

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November 2018

The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus is extremely adept at singing testing works in foreign languages. There are many goodies to savour here, particularly Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden, in which Schoenberg takes the first steps towards casting aside his old romanticism in search of a new direction. It’s beautifully performed by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus.

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