The Sweet And Merry Month - Music For May Morning

Description

Experience a staple of the Oxford calendar in this set of works inspired by the May Morning tradition, with music spanning from the traditional to contemporary. Starting with The College Clock welcoming in the sunrise, this special recording displays The Magdalen College Choir in radiant form, shining in the glorious acoustics of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Oxford.

Track List -

1. The College Clock
2. Sumer is icumen in - Traditional round arr. Grayston Ives
3. Now is the month of Maying - Thomas Morley
4. Lay a garland - Robert Lucas de Pearsall
5. I’ll follow the sun - Lennon & McCartney arr. Grayston Ives
6. O Lusty May - Anon
7. Ah Robin, gentle - Robin William Cornysh
8. Linden Lea - Ralph Vaughan Williams
9. Loch Lomond - Traditional Scottish folksong, arr. David Overton
10. Hymnus Eucharisticus - Benjamin Rogers
11. Sicut lilium - John Stainer
12. Haste on my joys - Gerald Finzi
13. Music when soft voices die - Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
14. Somewhere over the rainbow - Harold Arlen, arr. Guy Turner
15. Dieu qu’il la fait bon regarder - Claude Debussy
16. Lark in the Clear Air - Trad. Irish Folksong, arr. James Whitbourn
17. The Silver Swan - Orlando Gibbons
18. Felice primavera - Carlo Gesualdo
19. The Hills - John Ireland
20. This sweet & merry month of May - William Byrd
21. The Spring of the Year - Peter Warlock
22. The Oak and the Ash - Trad. English folksong, arr. Gordon Langford
23. In pride of May - Thomas Weelkes
24. Hora e di Maggio - Heinrich Isaac
25. As torrents in Summer - Edward Elgar
26. The Bluebird - Charles Villiers Stanford
27. The Ballad of Green Broom - Benjamin Britten
28. The Bells of Magdalen College, Oxford