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CDA67076
Superseded by CDH55243

Recording details: July 1998
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: April 1999
Total duration: 69 minutes 22 seconds

'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)

All in the April Evening
Laudibus, Michael Brewer (conductor)
LISTEN TO ALL EXTRACTS
1
All in the April evening  [3'12]  Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952)
2
The Banks o' Doon 'Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon'  [3'17]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952)
3
An Eriskay Love Lilt 'Vair me o rovan o – When I'm lonely dear white heart'  [2'39]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952)
4
Dream Angus 'Can ye no' hush yer weepin', O?'  [2'46]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952)
Rachael Lloyd (alto)
5
The wee cooper o' Fife 'There was a wee copper wha lived in Fife'  [1'44]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952)
6
Ca' the yowes  [4'40]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Mark Dobell (tenor)
7
The turtle dove 'Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone'  [2'49]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Robert Davies (tenor)
8
O can ye sew cushions?  [3'11]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Sir Granville Bantock (1868-1946)
9
Wi' a hundred pipers  [2'34]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Purcell James Mansfield (1889-1968)
10
Drink to me only with thine eyes  [3'29]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952)
11
All through the night 'While the moon her watch is keeping'  [2'10]  Anonymous - traditional, arr. Sir Hugh Roberton (1874-1952)
12
Fyer! Fyer!  [2'07]  Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602)
13
All creatures now  [1'52]  John Bennet (1570-1615)
14
Ave verum corpus  [3'25]  William Byrd (1539/40-1623)
15
Crimond 'The Lord's my shepherd'  [3'16]  Jessie Seymour Irvine (1836-1887), arr. David Grant (1833-1893) & Dr William Baird Ross (1871-?)
Charlotte Mobbs (soprano)
Songs of Farewell  Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
16
No 3: Never weather-beaten sail  [2'54]
17
My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land, Op 18 No 3  [3'45]  Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, Op 30  Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
18
Song: As torrents in summer  [2'10]
19
Corpus Christi 'Lully, lullay – The faucon hath borne my make away'  [4'47]  Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
Bryony Lang (soprano), Mark Dobell (tenor)
20
The blue bird, Op 119 No 3 'The lake lay blue below the hill'  [3'08]  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Bryony Lang (soprano)
Three Shakespeare Songs  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
21
No 1: Full fathom five  [2'59]
22
No 2: The cloud-capp'd towers  [1'56]
23
No 3: Over hill, over dale  [0'56]
24
The long day closes 'No star is o'er the lake'  [3'36]  Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
One of Hyperion's first successes from the early '80s was an LP of this title recorded by The Philharmonic Choir under David Temple. Subsequently transferred to a Helios CD, it was later deleted because the recording was pre-digital and the duration rather short measure for a CD. We still get many requests for it so we've re-recorded this enlarged programme which again contains many favourites made famous by the Glasgow Orpheus Choir, founded in 1901 by Sir Hugh Roberton and disbanded in 1951 upon his death. The choir made dozens of records for HMV and is remembered with affection by many people. The music includes many folk and traditional songs from England, Wales, and particularly Scotland, as well as well-known pieces by Elgar, Parry, Stanford, Sullivan, Warlock etc. All are marvellously sung by this superb choir.