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)
1Nachtmusik, Op. 4409:47
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
Gál, Hans
Beattie, James - Lyricist
Breton, Nicholas - Lyricist
Keats, John - Lyricist
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
2No. 1. Love Will Find out the Way01:48
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
3No. 2. An Epitaph03:03
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
4No. 3. To Sleep03:14
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
5No. 4. Phillida and Corydon03:11
Borealis (Choir)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
Gál, Hans
Bateson, Thomas - Lyricist
Herrick, Robert - Lyricist
Arnold, Matthew - Lyricist
Bridges, Robert Seymour - Lyricist
Symons, Arthur - Lyricist
Carlyle, Thomas - Lyricist
Harvey, Frederick William - Lyricist
de la Mare, Walter - Lyricist
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
Borealis (Choir)
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
6Prelude04:46
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
7I. To-day02:01
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
8II. Morning02:08
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
9III. Make much of Time02:15
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
10IV. Song of June -03:11
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
11V. Elegy02:25
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
12VI. Scherzo05:14
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
13VII. Hurricane -02:16
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
14VIII. Sunset -02:47
Sampson, Carolyn (soprano)
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
15IX. Silver04:30
Borealis (Choir)
Pixels Ensemble (Ensemble)
Budge, Bridget (Conductor)
Gál, Hans
Bruns, Max - Lyricist
Bulcke, Carl - Lyricist
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
16No. 1. Idylle01:54
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
17No. 2. Sterne im Wasser02:49
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
Gál, Hans
Finckelthaus, Gottfried - Lyricist
Brehme, Christian - Lyricist
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
18No. 1. Bey dem Weine02:43
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)
19No. 2. Runda02:36
Borealis (Choir)
Muir, Stephen (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:02:38