THE VOCAL CONSORT
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The Vocal Consort has two CDs for sale: Journeyings ($25 plus $5 p&p) and Sweet & Low ($20 plus $5 p&p). Buy online using PayPal or print and post the order form.
Not quite quadraphonic, but quality without qualification: the quintessential quaffing music or quietude for the querulous!
Buy the two together for only $40 plus $5 p&p:
“Journeyings”
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CD contents (click on links to listen to samples)
- The Traveller (music: Noel Ancell, text: C. J. Dennis)
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Songs for the Open Road (music: David Hamilton)
- Land of Beyond (text: Robert Service)
- Where the west begins (text: Robert Service)
- Roadways (text: John Masefield, piccolo: Frederick Shade)
- Swansea Town (English Sea Chanty, arr. Robert Shaw & Alice Parker)
- Skye Boat Song (Traditional Scottish folk melody, arr. Noel Ancell, text: Harold Boulton), baritone solo: Thomas Drent)
- Shenandoah (Shanty, arr. James Erb) [406 kb
] -
Tarantella (music: Randall Thompson, text: Hillaire Belloc, piano: Dean Sky-Lucas)
[493 kb
]
- The Vagabond (music: Ralph Vaughan Williams, text: R. L. Stevenson)
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Beati quorum via (music: Charles Villiers Stanford, arr. D. G. Mason)
[605 kb
]
- Psalms of Ascent (music: Chester L. Alwes, piano: Dean Sky-Lucas)
- Unto the Lord in my distresse
- I to the hills lift up mine eyes & O all yee servants
- Deep River (Traditional Spiritual, arr. Marvin Gaspard, piano: Dean Sky-Lucas)
- Goin' Up to Glory (Traditional Spiritual, arr. André J. Thomas,
piano, Dean Sky-Lucas) [617 kb]
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Sunburnt Country (music: trad. and Trevor Jones, text:, trad. and Dorothea MacKellar)
- Farewell to old England
- Heave away
- Lumps of gold
- Lachlan Tigers
- Homing thoughts
“Sweet & Low”
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With music ranging from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the collection captures the spirit of one of this country's most talented choirs. They are equally at home singing sacred music by Josquin, folk song arrangements by Vaughan Williams or Shaw & Parker, or thought-provoking works from the here and now. A goodly proportion of the new CD is devoted to light-hearted pieces, but works like Britten's Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, Kurt Bestor's Prayer of the Children or Randall Thompson's The Last Words of David provide quiche for the questing soul.
CD contents (click on links to listen to samples)
- Pseudo Yoik NT (Jaakko Mäntyjärvi)
- The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (Benjamin Britten)
- A Song of the Republic (Noel Ancell)
- What Shall We do with the Drunken Sailor (arr. Parker and Shaw)
[660k]
- Gae bring to me a pint o' wine (arr. Noel Ancell)
- Bushes and Briars (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
[1.3mb
]
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Prayer of the Children (Kurt Bestor, arr. Andrea S. Klouse)
[1.1mb
]
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Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace (John Rutter)
[846k
]
- The Last Words of David (Randall Thompson)
- Benedicta es cælorum regina (Josquin des Prez)
- De Animals a-Comin’ (arr. Marshall Bartholomew)
- Little Innocent Lamb (arr. Marshall Bartholomew)
- A Quiet Place (Ralph Carmichael, arr. Randy Crenshaw)
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King Chanticleer (Nat D. Ayer, arr. Ken Malucelli)
[1.3mb
]
- >A Happy Life (Vaughan McAlley)
- The Mulligan Musketeers (R.W. Atkinson)
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Sweet and Low (Sir Joseph Barnby)
[772k
]
