[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 January 1996
'This is a delightfully nostalgic trip through English part-singing from the first half of the 20th century. The programme is deftly chosen and Laudibus give heart-warming accounts' (BBC Music Magazine)
'Phrasing, diction, internal balance and attention to detail, all captured in a warm acoustic, contribute towards superb readings of Orpheus favourites' (Classic FM Magazine)
'It's a delightful disc … if there was a 'Critics' Fancy' it would be there sure enough' (Gramophone)
'Bright, youthful choir timbre, affectionate yet staunch renditions, and superior sound from the Hyperion engineers. Recommend you buy on sight. Repeat, buy on sight' (American Record Guide)
'This is a delightfully nostalgic trip through English part-singing from the first half of the 20th century. The programme is deftly chosen and Laudibus give heart-warming accounts' (BBC Music Magazine)
Recorded in St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, on 18 and 19 July 1998
All in the April evening SIR HUGH ROBERTON / KATHARINE TYNAN [3'12]
The Banks o' Doon TRADITIONAL, arranged by SIR HUGH ROBERTON / ROBERT BURNS [3'17]
An Eriskay Love Lilt TRADITIONAL, arranged by SIR HUGH ROBERTON / KENNETH MACLEOD [2'39]
Dream Angus TRADITIONAL, arranged by SIR HUGH ROBERTON / GEORGE CHURCHILL [2'46]
The Wee Cooper o' Fife TRADITIONAL, arranged by SIR HUGH ROBERTON [1'44]
Ca' the yowes TRADITIONAL, arranged by RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / ROBERT BURNS [4'40]
The Turtle Dove TRADITIONAL, arranged by RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS [2'49]
O can ye sew cushions? TRADITIONAL, arranged by SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK [3'11]
Wi' a hundred pipers TRADITIONAL, arranged by PURCELL JAMES MANSFIELD / LADY NAIRNE [2'34]
Drink to me only with thine eyes TRADITIONAL, arranged by SIR HUGH ROBERTON / BEN JONSON [3'29]
All through the night TRADITIONAL, arranged by SIR HUGH ROBERTON [2'10]
Fyre! Fyre THOMAS MORLEY [2'07]
All creatures now are merry-minded JOHN BENNET [1'52]
Ave verum corpus WILLIAM BYRD [3'25]
Crimond DAVID GRANT, descant by W BAIRD ROSS [3'16]
Never weather-beaten sail SIR C HUBERT H PARRY / THOMAS CAMPION [2'54]
My love dwelt in a northern land SIR EDWARD ELGAR / ANDREW LANG [3'45]
As torrents in summer SIR EDWARD ELGAR / HENRY LONGFELLOW [2'10]
Corpus Christi TRADITIONAL, arranged by PETER WARLOCK [4'47]
The Blue Bird SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD / MARY E COLERIDGE (Op 119 No 3) [3'08]
Full fathom five RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [2'59]
The cloud-capp'd towers RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [1'56]
Over hill, over dale RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [0'56]
The long day closes SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN / HENRY F CHORLEY [3'36]