Slater, Gordon

Eldon Rathburn: Works / Chamber Players of Canada

1 CD / ATMA / 2006-08-01

Works: Eldon Rathburn: Fanfare, for brass quintet; Ottawa Suite, for string quartet; Andante, for string quartet; Scherzo Humouresque, for string quartet; A Farewell to Lou, for clarinet & string quartet; P...
Performers: Annand, Thomas; Armour, Julian; Atkinson, Nicholas; Bruneau, Murielle; Crow, Jonathan; Donnelly, Karen; Ellias, Roddy; G'froerer, Joanna; Lafrance, Manon; Milani, Manuela; Renshaw, Donald; Slater, Go...

"Solo instruments are added in several of the works. In 'A Farewell to Lou' (2000), an elegy on the death of Canadian composer Louis Applebaum,...continue...

Faire Is The Heaven - Hymns and Anthems / Choir of St. John

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-06-01

Works: Gordon Slater: Jesu, The Very Thought of Thee; Healey Willan: Gloria Deo per Immensa Saecula, for 5-part chorus, HWC 593; I Beheld Her, Beautiful as a Dove, motet for chorus, HWC 312; Fair in Face, m...
Performers: Crisp, Stephen; Halley, Paul [Organ/Singer]; Harris, William; Howells, Herbert; Ireland, John [British Composer]; Monk, William Henry; Slater, Gordon; Willan, Healey
Conductors: Edison, Noel
Ensemble: Choir of St. John's Church, Elora

The publication of 'Hymns Ancient and Modern' in 1861 was instrumental in bringing about many changes in Anglican cathedral music, including the adoption of the...continue...
Personnel: Paul Halley (organ)....continue...