American Classics - Barber: Choral Music

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 29, 2006
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BARBER
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ormond College Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Lawrence
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 29, 2006
    • UPC
      636943905326
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559053
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical Vocals
    Works ⌄

    1. A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Op. 15

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Performer: Ben Dickson

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    2. Under the Willow Tree

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Performer: Len Vorster, Grantley McDonald

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    3. No. 1. Twelfth Night

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    4. No. 2. To be sung on the Water

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    5. The Monk and his Cat

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Performer: Len Vorster

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    6. Agnus Dei, Op. 11

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    7. I. Mary Hynes

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    8. II. Anthony O'Daly

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    9. III. The Coolin

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    10. No. 1. The Virgin Martyrs

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    11. No. 2. Let down the bars, O Death

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    12. No. 1. Heaven-haven

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Performer: Len Vorster

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    13. No. 3. Sure on this shining night

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Performer: Len Vorster

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    14. Chorale for Ascension Day (Easter Chorale)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    15. Act III: On the death of Anthony

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Performer: Len Vorster, Deborah Kayser

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    16. Act III: On the death of Cleopatra

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Performer: Len Vorster, Deborah Kayser

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence

    17. God’s Grandeur

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Ormond College Choir

      Conductor: Douglas Lawrence


Setting texts for chorus or solo songs occupied Samuel Barber throughout his creative life. In particular he sought out English and Irish writers, many of whose melancholic and nostalgic texts aptly matched his own musically romantic persuasion.