English Choral Classics
Malcolm Sargent & Vernon Handley
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Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
- Ronald Frost (director), Michael Rippon (bass)
- Hallé Orchestra, Hallé Choir
- James Loughran
- Recorded: 1973-01-01
- Recording Venue: September 1973, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Thus spake Isaiah
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem
By the waters of Babylon
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, Op. 38
- Stephen Disley (organ), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Ian Tracey (director), Brian Kay (director), Michael George (bass)
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society
- Vernon Handley
- Recorded: 1993-01-19
- Recording Venue: 16, 17 & 19 January 1993 / Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Prelude
Jesu, Maria - I am near to death (Gerontius)
So pray for me...Kyrie eleison...Holy Mary, pray for him (Gerontius, semi-chorus, chorus)
Handel: Messiah
- James Milligan (bass), Marjorie Thomas (contralto), Elsie Morison (soprano), Eric Chadwick (organ), Richard Lewis (tenor), Herbert Bardgett (director)
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society
- Sir Malcolm Sargent
- Recorded: 1959-06-19
- Recording Venue: 15-19 June 1959, Huddersfield Town Hall, and (Elsie Morison: Nos. 14-16, 18-20, 38 & 45) 24 August 1959, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
1. Overture (Grave - Allegro moderato)
2. Comfort ye, my people (tenor recit.)
3. Every valley shall be exalted (tenor)
Stainer: The Crucifixion
- Gavin Williams (organ), Terence Clifford (baritone), David Hughes (tenor), John Lawrenson (baritone), Philip Mindenhall (bass)
- Guildford Cathedral Choir
- Barry Rose
- Recorded: 1969-01-01
- Recording Venue: 3-5 December 1968, Guildford Cathedral
1. Recit.: And they came to a place named Gethsemane (tenor)
2. The Agony (Could ye not watch with me one brief hour?) (bass, choir, tenor) (Terence Clifford, baritone)
3. Processional to Calvary [introduction omitted] (Fling wide the gates!) (organ, choir, tenor)
Maunder, J: Olivet to Calvary
- John Mitchinson (tenor), Peter Moorse (organ), Frederick Harvey (baritone)
- Guildford Cathedral Choir
- Barry Rose
- Recorded: 1964-01-01
- Recording Venue: 30 November & 2-4 December 1964, Guildford Cathedral
Olivet to Calvary (1993 Digital Remaster), Part I, 1. On the Way to Jerusalem: When o'er the steep of Olivet (chorus)
Recit.: Like a fair vision in the morning light (tenor, baritone)
O Jerusalem! (baritone)