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Cover of CDA66271/2 - Elgar: The Complete Choral Songs
Broadheath (Elgar's birthplace) by David Birtwhistle
CDA66271/2

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Recording details: March 1987
The Chapter House, Worcester Cathedral, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: December 1987
Total duration: 117 minutes 50 seconds

'Another invaluable issue from Hyperion' (Music & Musicians)

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
The Complete Choral Songs
Worcester Cathedral Choir, The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
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CD1
1
O happy eyes Op 18 No 1  [2'46]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
Two Choral Songs Op 71 English
2
The Shower   Cloud, if as thou dost melt  [2'35]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
3
Love Op 18 No 2   Like the rosy norther glow  [2'57]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
4
My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land Op 18 No 3  [4'38] English English
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
Five Partsongs from the Greek anthology Op 45 English
5
Yea, cast me from heights  [1'26]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
6
Whether I find thee  [1'07]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
7
After many a dusty mile  [2'03]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
8
It's oh to be a wild wind  [0'50]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
9
Feasting I watch  [2'05]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
Two Choral Songs Op 71
10
The Fountain   The unthrift sun shot vital gold  [3'25]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
11
Death on the hills Op 72   Why o'er the dark'ning hill-slopes  [4'20] English English
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
12
Spanish Serenade Op 23   Stars of the summer night!  [4'46]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor), Jeremy Ballard (violin), Robin Thurlby (violin), Keith Swallow (piano)
13
Evening Scene   The sheep-bell tolleth curfew-time  [3'53] English English
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)
14
The Rapid Stream   O streamlet, swiftly flowing  [1'25]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor), Keith Swallow (piano)
15
When swallows fly   When swallows dart from cottage eves  [1'05]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor), Keith Swallow (piano)
16
The Woodland Stream   How oft along the woodland way  [1'57]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor), Keith Swallow (piano)
Four Choral Songs Op 53 English
17
There is sweet music  [5'18]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)
18
Deep in my soul  [4'54]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)
19
O Wild West Wind  [3'40]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)
20
Owls, an Epitaph   What is that? … Nothing  [3'54]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)
Two Partsongs Op 26
CD2
1
The Snow   O snow, which sinks so light  [5'12]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor), Jeremy Ballard (violin), Robin Thurlby (violin), Keith Swallow (piano)
2
Fly, singing bird, fly  [2'59]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor), Jeremy Ballard (violin), Robin Thurlby (violin), Keith Swallow (piano)
3
How calmly the evening  [3'03]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)
4
Weary wind of the west  [5'10] English English
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)
5
The Prince of Sleep   I met at eve the Prince of Sleep  [3'41] English English
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)
6
A Christmas Greeting Op 52   Bowered on sloping hillsides rise  [5'26]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor), Jeremy Ballard (violin), Robin Thurlby (violin), Keith Swallow (piano)
7
Goodmorrow   You that have spent the silent night  [4'00]
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)
8
The Herald   A grim old king  [4'04] English English
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
Two Choral Songs Op 73 English
9
Love's Tempest   Silent lay the sapphire ocean  [3'28]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
10
Serenade   Dreams all too brief  [1'45]
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
11
Zut, zut, zut   Come! give it a lift, our old-time march-song  [2'18] English English
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
12
The Wanderer   I wander through the woodlands  [2'56] English English
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
13
The Reveille Op 54   Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands  [6'00] English English
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
14
They are at rest  [3'18] English English Français Deutsch
The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
15
Go, song of mine Op 57   Dishevelled and in tears, go, song of mine  [5'26] English English
Worcester Cathedral Choir, The Donald Hunt Singers, Donald Hunt (conductor)
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