The Micklegate Singers’ 50th anniversary CD

“The Micklegates are celebrating their 50th anniversary this season, as well they might.

“This disc, a generous 80 minutes, with 26 tracks, is a representative selection from live concerts given between 2003 and 2012.

“It is remarkable how homogenous the choir’s sound has remained over that period, all of it under Nicholas Carter’s direction. In keeping with the intention of its founder, Ronald Perrin, this remarkable varied programme often flirts with the fringes of the repertory and is all the more exciting for that.

“At its centre lies two larger pieces, Arvo Pärt’s The Beatitudes, which builds a sense of prayerful adoration towards its powerful organ conclusion, and Sumsion’s In Exile, with the Israelites discovering muscle while weeping in Babylon. Negro spirituals, Britten, Bernstein, Wood’s triumphal Hail, Gladdening Light, three witty epigrams by Nicholas Maw, Holst, a Tudor motet, even Swingle, are all part of this eclectic mix.”

- Review of The Micklegate Singers: Fifty Years On, The Press, York

 

The Micklegate Singers: 50 Years On

  1. Didn’t my Lord (Debbie Ballantyne — Soprano) — Richard Allain

  2. To Daffodils (Flower Songs) — Benjamin Britten

  3. The succession of the 4 sweet months (Flower Songs) — Benjamin Britten

  4. En une seule fleur (Les Chansons des Roses) — Morten Lauridsen

  5. Hilli-Ho! (5 Partsongs) — Frank Bridge

  6. Calme des nuits — Camille Saint-Saëns

  7. The Barrel of the Drum (Making of the Drum: Anne Parkinson — Soprano) — Bob Chilcott

  8. Steal Away (5 Negro Spirituals: Sarah Sketchley — Soprano, Chris Sketchley — Tenor) — Michael Tippett

  9. Sanctus (Latin Choruses from the Lark: Kate Woodruff — Mezzo) — Leonard Bernstein

  10. Requiem (Latin Choruses from the Lark) — Leonard Bernstein

  11. The Beatitudes (Stephen Power — Organ) — Arvo Pärt

  12. In Exile — Herbert Sumsion

  13. Svyete tikhii — Pyotr Tchaikovsky

  14. Hail Gladdening Light — Charles Wood

  15. In Manus Tuas — John Sheppard

  16. Lamentations for Holy Saturday I — Tomas de Victoria

  17. Three Verses — Richard Rodney Bennett

  18. Ave Maria — Javier Busto

  19. El Grillo — Josquin des Prez

  20. On a Noisy Polemic (5 Epigrams) — Nicholas Maw

  21. On the Death of Robert Ruisseaux (5 Epigrams) — Nicholas Maw

  22. On a Hen-pecked Country Squire (5 Epigrams) — Nicholas Maw

  23. On Hillissuvi (Sûgismaastikud) — Veljo Tormis

  24. L’amour de moi — Ward Swingle

  25. Let there be love — Lionel Rand arr. Ned Bennett

  26. Swansea Town (6 Choral Folk Songs) — Gustav Holst

This CD is available for £10 (+ £1.50 P&P).

Please email us and we will get in touch with details.

You can also buy the CD at our concerts.