GÁL, H.: Music for Voices, Vol. 3 (C. Sampson, Pixels Ensemble, Borealis, Budge, Muir)

Whether in his original home of Vienna, as a conservatoire director in Mainz, or as an émigré in Edinburgh, where he became one of the mainstays of musical life, Hans Gál (1890–1987) championed choral singing as a way of directly involving people in making music: he founded and conducted a number of choirs and provided an extensive output of choral compositions. This third album of his choral music offers a vivid cross-section of music for chamber choir, featuring mixed voices, women’s voices and male-voice choir, a cappella, with solo soprano, with piano and with chamber accompaniment.

Tracklist

Gál, Hans
Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von - Lyricist
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
1 Nachtmusik, Op. 44 09:47
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
Gál, Hans
Beattie, James - Lyricist
Keats, John - Lyricist
Breton, Nicholas - Lyricist
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
2 No. 1. Love Will Find out the Way 01:48
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
3 No. 2. An Epitaph 03:03
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
4 No. 3. To Sleep 03:14
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
5 No. 4. Phillida and Corydon 03:11
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
Gál, Hans
Bridges, Robert Seymour - Lyricist
Bateson, Thomas - Lyricist
Harvey, Frederick William - Lyricist
de la Mare, Walter - Lyricist
Symons, Arthur - Lyricist
Carlyle, Thomas - Lyricist
Herrick, Robert - Lyricist
Arnold, Matthew - Lyricist
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
Borealis (Choir)
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
6 Prelude 04:46
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
7 I. To-day 02:01
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
8 II. Morning 02:08
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
9 III. Make much of Time 02:15
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
10 IV. Song of June - 03:11
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
11 V. Elegy 02:25
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
12 VI. Scherzo 05:14
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
13 VII. Hurricane - 02:16
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
14 VIII. Sunset - 02:47
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
15 IX. Silver 04:30
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
Gál, Hans
Bulcke, Carl - Lyricist
Bruns, Max - Lyricist
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
16 No. 1. Idylle 01:54
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
17 No. 2. Sterne im Wasser 02:49
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
Gál, Hans
Finckelthaus, Gottfried - Lyricist
Brehme, Christian - Lyricist
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
18 No. 1. Bey dem Weine 02:43
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
19 No. 2. Runda 02:36
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:02:38