Title: Songbook
Artist: The Trebles of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum
Label: Delphian
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 801918340970
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2011-01-10
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: JEWEL CASE PACKAGING
This 'songbook' is unique to the choristers of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, now housed at Dean Close Preparatory School. 'Essentially, it's a showcase for the Abbey trebles,' explains Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas. 'I've always been keen to build each boy up as a soloist, not with the express idea of them singing lots of solos, but so that they can learn to sing in a soloist way.' This is evident above all in the already highly distinctive singing of 11-year-old Laurence Kilsby, whose gifts won him the BBC Chorister of the Year competition in 2009 and who features here in two Shelley settings by Roger Quilter, the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and John Ireland's sincerely felt Passiontide motet Ex ore in.
Tracks:
1.1 Music, When Soft Voices Die for Voice ; Piano, Op. 25/5
1.2 Vater Unser, for Boy Soprano or Unison Children's Chorus ; Piano
1.3 Fairest Isle (From 'King Arthur'), Aria for Soprano, Z. 628/38
1.4 Love's Philosophy, for Voice ; Piano, Op. 3/1
1.5 The Land of Spices, for Chorus
1.6 Whispers, for Piano
1.7 O Salutaris, for 5 Voices
1.8 Ex Ore Innocentium, for Soprano, Alto ; Piano (Or Organ)
1.9 The Flower, for Chorus
1.10 A Song at Evening, for Voice ; Piano
1.11 Ave Maria, for Voice ; Piano (After Bach's Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
1.12 Nymphs and Shepherds (From 'The Libertine'), Song, Z. 600/1
1.13 Dutch Carol, for Chorus
1.14 I Will Give My Love An Apple, Folk Song
1.15 Linden Lea, Song for Voice ; Orchestra ('In Linden Lea'; 'A Dorset Song')
1.16 Dirge for Fidele, Song for 2 Mezzo-Sopranos ; Piano
1.17 Somewhere, Song (From 'West Side Story')
1.18 Sure on This Shining Night, Song for Voice ; Piano (Also Arr. for Voice, Orch, Chorus ; Piano), Op. 13/3
1.19 Shall We Gather at the River, Hymn
1.20 The Lord's Prayer, for Chorus (1999)
1.21 Wedding Introit, for Organ
1.22 I Sing of a Maiden for 2 Voices ; Piano
1.23 Skye Boat Song, Folk Song
1.24 How Can I Keep from Singing?, for Choir