Early American Choral Music, Vol. 2
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Composer: AnonymousComposer: William Billings
Composer: John Dowland
Composer: John [1] Farmer
Composer: Amariah Hall
Composer: Oliver Holden
Composer: Stephen Jenks
Composer: William Knapp
Composer: Justin Morgan
Composer: William Parsons
Composer: Daniel Read
Composer: Nehemiah Shumway
Composer: Timothy Swan
Composer: William Tans'ur
Composer: Benjamin West
Composer: Elisha West
Composer: Abraham Wood
Conductor: Paul Hillier
Performer: His Majestie's Clerkes
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2002-04-09
Music Label: Hmf Classical Exp.
Soundtracks:
- Colchester ('O 'twas a joyful sound to hear')
- The Humble Suit Of A Sinner ('O Lord of whom I do depend')
- O Lord turne not away thy face (Lamentation of a Sinner)
- The Humble Complaint of a Sinner, for soprano, alto, tenor & bass (Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations)
- Brevity ('Man, born of woman')
- Cambridge Short-Southwell 'O God , to rescue me'
- Watford ('How long wilt thous forget me, Lord')
- The beauty of Isr'el is slain
- Thomas-Town 'Great God, how frail a Thing is Man'
- Chester, hymn
- Chesterfield 'Death may dissolve my Body now'
- Who is this that cometh from Edom?
- Worchester ('How beauteous are their feet')
- Amanda ('Death like an overflowing stream')
- Psalm 63 'Early my God, without delay' (Montgomery)
- Windham ('Broad is the road that leads to death')
- Ode on Music ('Descend, ye Nine?')
- All Saints ('O if the Lord Would come and meet')
- Rainbow ('Tis by thy strength the mountains stand')
- Schenectady ('From all that dwell below the skies')
- Greenwich ('Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I')
- Decay ('My days are as the grass')
- Evening Hymn ('The day is past and gone')
Free Music Notes for Early American Choral Music, Vol. 2
Free Music Review: A really splendid recording
Hit: 5 Stars
This has become a favorite album of mine. As a shape-note (Sacred Harp) singer myself, I was familiar with many of the American songs here. But the pairings with English 17th century psalmody opened up an entirely new connection for me and are quite convincing. The performances are first-rate. The singing is both powerful and nuanced -- rare with recordings of this music. The recent Anonymous 4 recordings from this tradition are also great, but with the possible exception of some Boston Camerata performances, no group I know of does a better job of getting the balance just right. They bridge the cultural divide between (on one side) "serious" choral musicians who can't quite get into shape-note music and (on the other) those of us for whom no other style has as much power and vigor. Alas, they don't "sing the notes" (fa-so-la syllables), but otherwise it's a gem.
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