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Bob Chilcott: Singing Children (SSA) Singing Children is an upbeat, optimistic piece featuring scat-like vocalizations, extended unison passages, syncopations, and intuitive harmonies. The composer has adapted a song from the Elizabethan play ‘Locrine’, attributed to Charles Tilney, with lyrics that profess the singers’ overwhelming, joyous love of singing.
John Rutter: Joseph’s Carol (Vocal Score) Opgedragen aan het Oxford Vaccine Team en in première gebracht door Sir Bryn Terfel, The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra en het Koor van Merton College in een speciaal eerbetoonconcert, zet Joseph’s Carol de woorden van de componist die het kerstverhaal vertellen vanuit het perspectief van Jozef. De twee expressieve verzen […]
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Written for the BBC Last night of the Proms, this sensitive setting of the well-known Irish folk song does justice to the beauty of the original melody. Chilcott’s harmonic subtleties add to the poignancy of the lyrics, expressing and elevating the sentiments of loss and longing.
