Description
Sir Michael Tippett: Choral Images - BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury / Signum Classics Audio CD / SIGCD092
UPC 635212009222
The BBC Singers is a professional British chamber choir, employed by the BBC. Its origins can be traced to 1924. One of the six BBC Performing Groups, the BBC Singers are based at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in London. The only full-time professional British choir, the BBC Singers feature in live concerts, radio transmissions, recordings and education workshops. The choir often performs alongside other BBC Performing Groups, such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and is a regular guest at the BBC Proms. Broadcasts are made from locations around the country: London venues have included St Giles-without-Cripplegate, St John's, Smith Square and St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.
| Label: | Signum Classics – SIGCD092 |
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| Format: |
CD
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| Country: | UK |
| Released: |
2007 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Choral |
Tracklist:
| 1 | Dance, Clarion Air | 4:36 | |
| 2 | Plebs Angelica | 3:11 | |
| 3 | The Weeping Babe | 5:06 | |
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Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense |
| 4 | Magnificat | 4:14 | |
| 5 | Nunc Dimittis | 2:45 | |
| 6 | Hymn: Unto The Hills | 3:46 | |
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Four Songs From The British Isles |
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| 7 | England: Early One Morning | 2:56 | |
| 8 | Ireland: Lilliburlero | 1:41 | |
| 9 | Scotland: Poortith Cauld | 5:26 | |
| 10 | Wales: Gwenllian | 3:26 | |
| 11 | Over The Sea To Skye | 4:04 | |
| 12 | The Source | 2:14 | |
| 13 | The Windhover | 3:00 | |
| 14 | Lullaby |
| 4:20 | ||
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Five Negro Spirituals From The Oratorio A Child Of Our Time |
| 15 | Steal Away | 3:01 | |
| 16 | Nobody Knows | 1:22 | |
| 17 | Go Down, Moses | 3:02 | |
| 18 | By And By | 1:13 | |
| 19 | Deep River | 3:33 |
- Alto Vocals – Jacqueline Fox, Kim Porter, Lynette Alcántara, Penny Vickers, Rebecca Lodge, Siân Menna
- Bass Vocals – Adrian Peacock, Charles Gibbs, Edward Price, Simon Birchall, Stephen Charlesworth, Stuart MacIntyre
- Choir – BBC Singers
- Composed By – Sir Michael Tippett
- Conductor – Stephen Cleobury
- Cover – Mike Evans
- Design, Artwork – Woven Design
- Edited By – Philip Ashley
- Engineer – Tony Wass
- Liner Notes – Anthony Burton
- Organ – Iain Farrington
- Photography By – Gerald Place, Sophie Laslett
- Producer – Michael Emery
- Soprano Vocals – Alison Smart, Amanda Morrison, Elizabeth Franklin-Kitchen, Elizabeth Poole, Jennifer Adams-Barbaro, Juliet Fraser, Karen Woodhouse, Margaret Feaviour
- Tenor Vocals – Andrew Murgatroyd, David Roy, Ian Kennedy, John Bowley, Neil MacKenzie, Robert Johnston
