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Singing St. Louis
Compact Disc # 6

For nearly fifty years the Chamber Chorus has been fortunate to attract the talents not only of performers, but also of arrangers and composers.  This disc brings together some of the more notable of these to constitute a programme of both sacred and secular pieces, taking the group from the music of its founder Ronald Arnatt to the present day.  With the exception of Te Lucis Ante Terminum, all tracks on this compact disc are world première recordings.  The disc is accompanied by a booklet containing both texts and translations, together with informative articles on the composers and on the Chorus's conductor, Philip Barnes.

For sound samples of selected tracks, click on the title to hear the first 45 seconds of the piece (MP3 files, about 530 KB each, created at around FM broadcast quality to keep file sizes down — the CD will be of higher quality).

Sacred Music

1. God Be In My Head — Carolee Coombs-Stacy
2. Five Hymns from The Sacred Harp — Martha Shaffer
   2. Sweet Canaan
   3. King of Peace
   4. The Traveler
   5. I Would See Jesus
   6. Foundation
7. Two Movements from Requiem for St. Louis — Sasha Johnson Manning
   7. Requiem Aeternam
   8. Dies Irae
9. Missa St. Louis — Charles Collins
   9. Kyrie
   10. Gloria
   11. Credo
   12. Sanctus & Benedictus
   13. Agnus Dei
14. Te Lucis Ante Terminum — S. William Aitken

Secular Music

15. Music and Ceremonies — Ronald Arnatt
16. The Ship Starting — Audrey Kooper Hammann
17. The Water of Tyne — arr. Stuart McIntosh
18. Asian Sketches — Robert Charles Howard
    18. Night in the Villa by the River
    19. My Thoughts are with a Boat
    20. A Still Pool
    21. My Love is like the Grasses
22. A Contemplation upon Flowers — Richard Rodney Bennett
23. On A Bus To St. Cloud — Gretchen Peters, arr. Stuart McIntosh

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