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In the Beginning / Benjamin Nicholas, Peter Phillips

1 CD / Delphian Records / 2012-01-10

Works: Gabriel Jackson: In the Beginning was the Word, for chorus; Nicolas Gombert: Lugebat David Absalon, motet for 8 voices; Thomas Weelkes: When David heard; Eric Whitacre: When David Heard; Giovanni Pie...
Performers: Cearns, Jenny; Coleman, Timothy; Cutting, Guy; Mackay, Beth; Ryan, Rachel; Tann, Emily; Turner, Mothusi; Williams, James [Vocals]
Conductors: Phillips, Peter; Nicholas, Benjamin
Ensemble: Choir of Merton College, Oxford

Founded as recently as 2008, the new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. On this,...continue...
Recording information: Merton College Chapel, Oxford (04/25/2011-04/26/2011)....continue...

Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid; Rodeo; In the Beginning

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-11-22

Works: Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid, ballet; Rodeo; In the Beginning
Performers: Gunson, Ameral
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard; Cleobury, Stephen

Recording information: Powell Symphony Hall, Saint Louis, Missouri; Chapel of....continue...

Gloriae Dei Cantores - Copland, Thomson / Patterson

1 CD / Gloriae Dei Cantores / 2010-02-16

Works: Aaron Copland: In the Beginning; Old American Songs, Set 1; Motets (4), for chorus; Virgil Thomson: Hymns from the Old South, for chorus; Mass, for 2-part chorus & percussion; Tribulationes civitatum...
Performers: Bybee, Luretta; Chalmers, David, Dr. [Organ]; Jordan, James E., Jr. [Organ]; Norman, Luke; Ortolani, David
Conductors: Patterson, Elizabeth C.
Ensemble: Gloriae Dei Brass Ensemble; Gloriae Dei cantores

In the Beginning / Nethsingha, Gloucester Cathedral Choir

1 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb, festival cantata for trumpet, ATB soloists, chorus & organ, Op. 30; Ildebrando Pizzetti: Composizioni corali (3), for chorus; Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full, final ...
Performers: Birchall, James; Bourne, Frances; Gilchrist, James [Tenor Vocal]; Houssart, Robert; Smith, Allan
Conductors: Nethsingha, Andrew
Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

The works on 'In the Beginning', the debut Avie release by the Gloucester Cathedral Choir, were all written in the shadow or the aftermath of...continue...

Copland and His American Contemporaries / Higginbottom

1 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: Adolphus Hailstork: The Song of Deborah, for soprano, alto, chorus & organ; Aaron Copland: In the Beginning; Libby Larsen: I Will Sing and Raise a Psalm, for choir; Morten Lauridsen: O magnum mysteri...
Performers: Beston, Simon; Bond, Katherine; Edwards, Tom; Jenkinson, Henry; Ockenden, Sasha; Putt, Alastair

"This is, I believe, the final release in a series of three CDs. I've already reviewed and greatly enjoyed the two previous disc, one devoted...continue...

American Classics - American Choral Music

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-11-21

Works: Vincent Persichetti: Flower Songs (Cantata no 6), for mixed chorus & string orchestra , Op. 157; Charles Ives: Psalm 90 "Lord, thou hast been"; John Corigliano: Fern Hill, for mezzo-soprano, chorus &...
Performers: Anderson, Thad; Asbell, Ames; Barber, Elaine; Cho, Seung Won; Cluff, Darlene; Colson, Bruce; Coltman-Smith, Margaret; Dawson, David; Depue, Wallace; Francis, Graeme; Gedigian, Marianne; Gilliam-Valls...
Conductors: Morrow, James
Ensemble: University of Texas Chamber Orchestra; University of Texas Chamber Singers

"The fine Copland performance concludes an excellent disc. The choir is consistently splendid. It's evident that James Morrow has trained them very well indeed. Balance,...continue...

in the beginning - Copland, Barber / Parry, Dunedin Consort

1 CD / Linn Records / 2001-02-06

Works: Aaron Copland: In the Beginning; Motets (4), for chorus; Samuel Barber: Reincarnations, for 4 voices, Op. 16; To Be Sung on the Water, for 4 voices, Op. 42/2; Heaven-Haven, for chorus (arr. of song O...
Performers: Bruce-Payne, Sally

A Copland Celebration Vol 3 - Vocal & Choral Works

2 CD / Sony Classical / 2000-11-07

Works: Aaron Copland: Old American Songs, Set 1; Old American Songs, for voice & piano, Book 2; Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as "Poems (8) of Emil; In the B...
Performers: Addison, Adele; Cassilly, Richard; Copland, Aaron; Fredericks, Richard; Hale, Robert; Muller, Mildred; Treigle, Norman; Turner, Claramae; Warfield, William [Baritone Vocals]
Conductors: Copland, Aaron
Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra

An American Collage / D'Anna Fortunato, Rooke Chapel Choir

1 CD / Albany Records / 1993-01-01

Works: Aaron Copland: In the Beginning; Richard Hundley: Isaac Greentree, an epitaph for voice & piano; The Astronomers, an epitaph for voice & piano; Waterbird, for voice & piano; William Duckworth: Southe...
Performers: Cover, David; Fortunato, D'Anna; Lee, Genevieve
Conductors: Payn, William
Ensemble: Rooke Chapel Choir

Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Barber, Copland / Matthew Best

1 CD / Hyperion / 1987-09-01

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei; Aaron Copland: In the Beginning; Motets (4), for chorus
Performers: Denley, Catherine; Kettel, Gary; Martelli, Dominic; Masters, Rachel; Trotter, Thomas
Conductors: Best, Matthew
Ensemble: Corydon Singers

'An imaginative and enterprising programme, extremely well sung and recorded' (Gramophone)

'An exquisite disc. Indispensable' (Acoustic Sounds Catalog, USA)

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