Robert Shaw Chorale - Shaw, Robert Festival Singers: Appear & Inspire

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Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder

Hymn to St Cecelia Op 27

Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin

Shaw, Robert Festival Singers: Appear & Inspire

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It's a real pleasure to hear the legendary Shaw apply his directorial genius against such a fine, mostly a cappella repertoire. This recording begins with Britten's "Hymn to St. Cecelia, Op. 27." He follows with an impeccable performance of Debussy's only published a cappella chorus work, "Trois Chansons," then Ravel's only unaccompanied choral pieces, another "Trois Chansons" (French for 'three songs'). Poulenc wrote a number of a cappella works; "Un soir de neige" ('A Snowy Evening') was written during German occupation of France. On "Trois chansons bretonnes," Dutch composer Henk Badings uses a piano and dense vocal textures to paint aural images in lovely harmonic brushstrokes. The recording concludes with a piece commissioned by the Dale Warland singers, the seven-song cycle "I Hate and I Love."
Robert Shaw Festival Singers: Appear & Inspire
Song List
Hymn to St. Cecilia, Op. 27 (Britten)
Trois Chansons (Debussy):
1. Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder!
2.Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin
3. Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain
Trois Chansons (Ravel):
1. I Nicolette
2. Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis
3. Ronde
Un soir de neige (Poulenc)
Trois chansons bretonnes:
1. La nuit en mer
2. La complainte des ámes
3. Soir d'été
I Hate and I Love (Argento)

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