This effervescent setting of two texts by David Warner – one for Christmas, one for general worship – was included on the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square’s recent release, ‘Tree of Life’. Over a shimmering, festive accompaniment for piano four-hands or chamber orchestra, the melody is passed between voice parts, and the dynamic […]
A celebratory carol in a lilting 12/8 metre, Christmas Welcome sets a joyful fifteenth-century text written by the English priest and poet John the Blind Audelay. Whitbourn employs textural contrasts and call-and-response style pairings of voices to great effect, and the soloistic organ writing allows plenty of opportunity for organists to explore the full range […]
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Henry Purcell: When I Am Laid In Earth In this innovative arrangement Stanley M. Hoffman takes Henry Purcell’s most popular solo aria, the ‘Lament’ from his opera Dido and Aeneas, and reimagines it as a work for unaccompanied soprano solo and SATB choir, thus making a staple of the solo song repertoire available for choral […]
15 Songs from the 19th and 20th Centuries with recorded Diction Lessons and Recorded Accompaniments. Texts in Italian and English