| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file) |
| Series |
The British music collection |
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British music collection.
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| Contents |
A child of our time (64:16) -- Choral pieces. Dance, clarion air / text by Christopher Fry (4:54) -- The source / text by Edward Thomas (2:23) -- The windhover / text by Gerard Manley Hopkins (2:17) -- Lullaby / text by William Butler Yeats (4:05) -- Bonny at morn (2:51) -- Four songs from the British Isles. Early one morning : England ; Lilliburlero : Ireland ; Poortith cauld : Scotland ; Gwenllian : Wales (12:54) -- Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (7:33) -- Plebs Angelica (3:21) -- The weeping babe / text by Edith Sitwell (4:29) -- Music / text by Percy Bysshe Shelley (3:46) -- Five Negro spirituals : from A child of our time. Steal away (2:26) ; Nobody knows the trouble I see, Lord (1:18) ; Go down, Moses (3:01) ; By and by (1:07) ; Deep river (3:21) |
| Notes |
1st work originally released in 1975 by Universal International Music BV; Choral pieces originally released in 1978 by Decca Music Group |
| Performer |
In 1st work: Jessye Norman, soprano ; Janet Baker, contralto ; Richard Cassilly, tenor ; John Shirley-Quirk, bass ; BBC Singers ; BBC Choral Society ; BBC Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Colin Davis, conductor. In "Choral Pieces": Caryl Kelly, soprano ; Karen Shelby and Kate Eckersley, mezzo-sopranos ; Philip Cave, tenor ; Paul Cann, bass ; John Turner, David Pugsley and Alan Lumsden, recorders ; Stephen Cleobury, organ and piano ; Schola Cantorum of Oxford ; Nicholas Cleobury, conductor |
| Event |
Recorded 1975 March and 1977 April |
| Notes |
1st work an oratorio sung in English; choral pieces sung in English and Latin |
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Hard copy version record |
| Subject |
Oratorios.
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Choruses (Mixed voices)
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Choruses (Mixed voices)
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Oratorios.
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Streaming audio
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Art music.
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Oratorios.
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Oratorios.
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Art music.
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Oratorios.
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Musique savante.
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Streaming audio
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| Author |
Norman, Jessye, singer.
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Baker, Janet, 1933- singer.
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Shirley-Quirk, John, singer.
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Cassilly, Richard, 1927-1998, singer.
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Davis, Colin, 1927-2013, conductor.
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Kelly, Caryl, singer
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Shelby, Karen, singer
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Eckersley, Kate, singer.
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Cave, Philip (Tenor), singer.
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Cann, Paul (Bass), singer
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Turner, John, 1943- instrumentalist.
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Pugsley, David (Recorder player), instrumentalist
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Lumsden, Alan, instrumentalist.
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Cleobury, Stephen, instrumentalist.
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Cleobury, Nicholas, conductor.
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BBC Singers, singer.
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BBC Choral Society, singer.
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BBC Symphony Orchestra, instrumentalist.
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Schola Cantorum of Oxford, singer.
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