RRC 1280

Choral Collection

Best of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir / Directed: Sir Hugh Roberton

1 CD(s), AAD

Review:

"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)

Track Listing:

1. Belmont – Hymn (By Cool Siloam’s Shady Rill) (4.12)

(adapted by Webbe: arr. Roberton)

2. Peat-fire Smooring Prayer (from ‘Songs Of The Hebrides’) (4.22)

(Kennedy-Fraser:trans.Macleod;arr. Roberton)

3. Ae fond kiss (3.24)

(Burns;arr.Roberton)

4. Bonnie Dundee (Trad.; arr.Roberton) (2.05)

5. Orlington (Psalm Tune) (Campbell;arr.Roberton) (4.04)

6. An Eriskay Love Lilt (from ‘Songs Of The Hebrides’) (3.52)

(Kennedy-Fraser:arr.Roberton)

7. Ca’ the Yowes (Burns:arr.Roberton) (3.00)

8. The Dashing White Sergeant (arr.Roberton) (2.02)

9. Crimond (Scottish Psalm Tune) (Grant) (3.42)

10. Hark, Hark The Echo Falling (Rothery:di Lasso;ed.Benson) (2.03)

11. The Blue Bird (Stanford;Coleridge) (3.18)

12. Ellan Vannin (Dear Isle Of Man) (Green;Townsend) (3.20)

(Faux Bourdon by Roberton)

13. All In The April Evening (Roberton;Tynan) (3.48)

14. White Waves On the Water (Roberton;Plumfield) (2.47)

with Piano Accompaniment

15. Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring (J.S.Bach;Allen) (3.24)

16. The Cloud Capp’d Towers (Choral Album No.19) (Stevens) (2.10)

17. The Faery Song (from ‘The Immortal Hour’) (1.25)

(Boughton;MacLeod)

18. (a) Far Away (Londonderry Air) (Trad;arr.Jozé;Sigerson) (4.08)

(b) The Old Woman (Roberton;Campbell)

19. Go Lovely Rose (Thoman;Waller) (2.35)

20. O Can Ye Sew Cushions? (Lullaby) (Trad.;arr.Bantock) (3.21)

21. Iona Boat Song (Trad.;arr.Roberton) (2.43)

22. Mice And Men (Set To The Psalm Tune ‘Desert’) (2.11)

(Trad.;arr.Roberton)

23. Kedron (Roberton) (2.57)

24. In Silent Night (Brahms:Rothery) (2.38)

25. All Through The Night (Trad.;arr.Roberton) (3.03)

TOTAL PLAY (76'47")