BARBER: Choral Music

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Label: Naxos

Series: American Classics

Genre: Choral - Sacred; Choral - Secular; Opera

Period: 20th Century

Catalogue No: 8.559053

Barcode: 636943905326

Release Date: 08/2006

Setting texts for chorus or solo songs occupied Samuel Barber throughout his creative life. In particular he sought out English and Irish writers, many of whose melancholic and nostalgic texts aptly matched his own musically romantic persuasion. A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map is a disturbing setting of a poem by Stephen Spender describing the death of a soldier in the Spanish Civil War, during which the poet had spent time in Spain. The elegiac and now extraordinarily popular Adagio for Strings is heard in the composer�s own choral version, Agnus Dei, to words from the Latin Mass. God�s Grandeur is one of Barber�s most ambitious and advanced unaccompanied settings.

Tracklist

Artist details

Barber, Samuel
Spender, Stephen - Lyricist

A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15

Dickson, Ben (timpani)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15

05:25

Dickson, Ben (timpani)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Barber, Samuel
Menotti, Gian Carlo - Lyricist

Under the Willow Tree

Vorster, Len (piano)
McDonald, Grantley (tenor)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Under the Willow Tree

03:23

Vorster, Len (piano)
McDonald, Grantley (tenor)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Barber, Samuel
Bogan, Louise - Lyricist
Lee, Laurie - Lyricist

To be Sung on the Water, Op. 42, No. 2

Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)

No. 1. Twelfth Night

04:32

Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)

No. 2. To be sung on the Water

02:48

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Barber, Samuel
Auden, Wystan Hugh - Lyricist

The Monk and his Cat

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Vorster, Len (piano)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

The Monk and his Cat

02:13

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Vorster, Len (piano)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Barber, Samuel
Mass Text - Lyricist

Agnus Dei, Op. 11

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Agnus Dei, Op. 11

05:55

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Barber, Samuel
Stephens, James - Lyricist

Reincarnations, Op. 16

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

I. Mary Hynes

02:44

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

II. Anthony O'Daly

03:49

Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)

III. The Coolin

03:13

Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)

Barber, Samuel
Dickinson, Emily - Lyricist

2 Pieces, Op. 8

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

No. 1. The Virgin Martyrs

03:39

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

No. 2. Let down the bars, O Death

01:53

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Barber, Samuel
Hopkins, Gerard Manley - Lyricist
Agee, James - Lyricist

4 Songs, Op. 13 (excerpts)

Vorster, Len (piano)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

No. 1. Heaven-haven

01:43

Vorster, Len (piano)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

No. 3. Sure on this shining night

02:03

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)
Vorster, Len (piano)

Barber, Samuel
Browning, Pack - Lyricist

Chorale for Ascension Day (Easter Chorale)

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Chorale for Ascension Day (Easter Chorale)

03:02

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Barber, Samuel
Zeffirelli, Franco - Lyricist

Antony and Cleopatra, Op. 40 (excerpts)

Vorster, Len (piano)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)
Kayser, Deborah (soprano)

Act III: On the death of Anthony

03:11

Vorster, Len (piano)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)
Kayser, Deborah (soprano)

Act III: On the death of Cleopatra

02:51

Vorster, Len (piano)
Kayser, Deborah (soprano)
Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Barber, Samuel
Hopkins, Gerard Manley - Lyricist

God’s Grandeur

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

God’s Grandeur

07:44

Ormond College Choir (Choir)
Lawrence, Douglas (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:00:08