The Very Best of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir

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The Very Best of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir
Glasgow Orpheus Choir, Sir Hugh Roberton

[ Alto Records / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 10 July 2017

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"Choir fanciers starting out on an Orphean collection would do very well to start here. The technical aspects have been lovingly handled. The only real criticism is the surfeit of the smooth and the dreamy - but that's the recorded legacy of the Glasgow Orpheus. Not for night-time driving but certainly a gentle curve into slumber sweet."
(MusicWeb)

"Pundits prophesied disaster for a Choir which sang Psalm tunes and Hebridean airs, but Hugh Roberton and his Choir proved (them) wrong...He made arrangements ... pieces of great beauty and warmth shaped to fit the voices. He composed music to verses which appealed to him. With this Choir, which became his life work, he strove to preserve the folk music of Scotland, to make people realize that the tunes they knew and loved were of great musical worth and that ...there is a rich treasure house of melody which must not be allowed to wither and die. He strove, in his own words, to do a fine thing finely, and he succeeded nobly." (Christian Science Monitor, USA)

Tracks:

[1] Belmont - Hymn (By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill) 4:02

[2] Peat-fire Smooring Prayer (from 'Songs of the Hebrides) 4:04

[3] Ae Fond Kiss 3:15

[4] Bonnie Dundee 1:56

[5] Orlington (Psalm Tune) 3:56

[6] Scots Wha Hae wi' Wallace Bled 2:14

[7] An Eriskay Love Lilt (from 'Songs of the Hebrides) 3:45

[8] Ca' the Yowes 2:51

[9] The Dashing White Sergeant 1:56

[10] Crimond (Scottish Psalm Tune) 3:33

[11] Hark, Hark The Echo Falling 1:50

[12] The Blue Bird 3:06

[13] Gretna Green 1:55

[14] Ellan Vannin (Dear Isle Of Man) 3:10

[15] All In The April Evening 3:40

[16] Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring 3:17

[17] The Cloud Capp'd Towers 2:01

[18] The Faery Song 1:16 (Boughton;MacLeod)

[19] (a) Far Away (Londonderry Air) (Trad. arr.Jozé;Sigerson) 4:00

(b) The Old Woman (Roberton;Campbell)

[20] Go Lovely Rose (Thoman;Waller) 2:25

[21] O Can Ye Sew Cushions? (Lullaby) (Trad. arr.Bantock) 3:13

[22] Iona Boat Song (Trad. arr. Roberton) 2:36

[23] Mice And Men (Set To The Psalm Tune 'Desert') 2:03 (Trad. arr. Roberton)

[24] Stracathro (Old Scottish Psalm tune) 3:39 (Hutcheson arr. Roberton)

[25] Kedron (Roberton) 2:46

[26] All Through The Night (Trad. arr. Roberton) 3:01