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A Song for Christmas

A Song for Christmas: a second Champs Hill CD and a second with Chris Hatt at the piano... A wonderful first CD with Sarah-Ann and Chris - Released in October 2016, it is a mix of Classical –old and new – Jazz, Christmas songs, Joy and Fun... Grieg, Warlock and Alexander L'Estrange; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Let It Snow! [Champs Hill Records: CHRCD121]

Sarah-Ann Cromwell, Christopher O’Gorman, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan

* With Chris Hatt (piano)

  1. A Song for Christmas * – Carroll Coates

  2. Bethlehem Down – Bruce Blunt / Peter Warlock

    Our Joyful'st Feast * – Christopher Steel

  3. What Sweeter Music * (Robert Herrick)

  4. There was a Time for Shepherds * - (Anthea Steel)

  5. A Christmas Carol * (George Wither)

  6. The Twelve Days of Christmas – Trad. / Frederic Austin / Cantabile – The London Quartet

  7. I'll Be Home for Christmas * – Kim Gannon / Walter Kent / Buck Ram

  8. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Hugh Martin / Ralph Blaine

  9. Good King Wenceslas Had a Farm * – Trad. / John Mason Neale / Thomas Helmore

  10. Introit Carol – Trad. / Mark Fleming / Edvard Grieg

  11. The Christmas Waltz * – Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne (and Chopin)

  12. Epiphany Carol – Joanna Forbes L'Estrange / Alexander L'Estrange

  13. Susa Nina – Stille Nacht – Silent Night – Josef Simons / Armand Preud'homme / Joseph Mohr / Franz Gruber

  14. A Festival of Carols in Two Minutes – Cantabile – The London Quartet

  15. Christmas in My Heart * – Rob Tyger / Kay Dennar

  16. Süßer die Glocken nie klingen * – Trad.

  17. Infant Holy, Infant Lowly – Trad. / Edith M G Reed (Arr. David Willcocks)

  18. Quelle est cette odeur agréable ? – Trad.

  19. The Wexford Carol * – Trad.

  20. Christmas Cards – Garth Bardsley / Ben Parry

  21. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * – Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne

  22. The Birds – Hilaire Belloc / Peter Warlock

  23. Nativitie – John Donne / Mark Fleming

  24. Twelve Days to Christmas (from 'She Loves Me') * – Sheldon Harnick / Jerry Bock

  25. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? * – Frank Loesser

  26. (Simply Having A) Wonderful Christmastime * – Paul McCartney

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Songs of Love and War

Songs of Love and War drew together several themes and projects, old and new. Released in 2014, the 100th anniversary of the start of "The Great War", this is a programme sung from the heart, inspired by the dual themes of love and of war.[Champs Hill Records: CHRCD074]

Richard Bryan, Steven Brooks, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan

with Malcolm Martineau [piano] 

  1. PRIEZ POUR PAIX Francis Poulenc / Charles d'Orléans

  2. AS TORRENTS IN SUMMER Edward Elgar / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  3. PAVANE Thoinot Arbeau

  4. PRELUDE IN E MINOR / INSENSATEZ Fryderyk Chopin / Antônio Carlos Jobim & Vinicius de Moraes / Norman Gimbel

  5. GO, LOVELY ROSE Roger Quilter / Edmund Waller

  6. BLEUET Francis Poulenc / Guillaume Apollinaire

  7. THERE IS A PARADISE ON EARTH Robert Lucas Pearsall / Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty

  8. SILENT NOON Ralph Vaughan Williams / Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  9. SWEET AND LOW Joseph Barnby / Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  10. SHE’S OUT OF MY LIFE Tom Bahler

  11. THE WAR OF '14-'18 Georges Brassens

  12. IN THE SUMMER OF HIS YEARS David Lee / Herbert Kretzmer

  13. WHEN SHE LOVED ME Randy Newman

  14. O WALY, WALY Traditional

  15. ONLY YOU Vince Clark

  16. SHE NEVER TOLD HER LOVE Joseph Haydn / William Shakespeare

  17. THE LAST INVOCATION Frank Bridge / Walt Whitman

  18. BLUMENLIED Robert Lucas Pearsall / Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty

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Songs of Cricket

An unmissable CD for lovers of cricket. The London Quartet cover centuries of cricket music. Our wonderful guest artists are Richard Stilgoe, Rory Bremner, Eliza Lumley, Tim Rice, Chris Hatt and Alexander L' Estrange. (Signum Classics SIGCD127)

Richard Bryan, Steven Brooks, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan

with Richard Stilgoe, Rory Bremner, Eliza Lumley, Tim Rice, Chris Hatt and Alexander L' Estrange

  1. Cricket Theme Medley – Various, arr. Alexander L'Estrange

  2. The Cricketers of Hambledon – Bruce Blunt / Peter Warlock

  3. School Songs Medley (five school songs) – Various

  4. The Summer Game (from Cricket: Hearts and Wickets) – Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber

  5. Lillian Thomson – Richard Stilgoe

  6. Radnage Cricket Song (Bucks. folk song) – Traditional, collected by Horace Harman

  7. Four Jolly Bowlers – John Arlott / The Yetties

  8. The Rules of Cricket – A Psalm Chant –The London Quartet / W.H. Havergal

  9. You've Got to be a Cricket Hero (to Get Along with the Beautiful Girls) – Al Sherman/Buddy Fields /Al Lewis and Fred Tupper/ Cliff Nichols

  10. Jiggery Pokery – Neil Hannon / Thomas Walsh

  11. Village Rondo – Matthew Holst, arr. Chris Hatt

  12. Eton and Winchester – R.T. Warner / F.S. Kelly

  13. I made a Hundred in the Backyard at Mum's – Greg Champion

  14. Australian Cricket Medley – Various

  15. The Barmy Army! – Richard Stilgoe

  16. That's Not Cricket - from At Home Abroad – Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz

  17. Cricket Tea Towel: The Ins and Outs of Cricket – Anon. / The London Quartet

  18. Andy Flower Duet – Richard Stilgoe / Léo Delibes

  19. Jerusalem – Richard Stilgoe / C. Hubert Parry

  20. When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease – Roy Harper

  21. 'Stop it, Aggers!' – Rory Bremner

 

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Lullabyes and Goodbyes

This is our first CD for Signum Records, with Adrian Peacock at the helm. It is also our first full studio album since 'On the Tracks of the Comedian Harmonists', on which we were accompanied by our old friend Malcolm Martineau, who joins us here once again. (Signum Classics SIGCD055)

Richard Bryan, Robin Green, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan with Malcolm Martineau [piano] 

  1. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) [Billy Joel] 3'16''

  2. Evening Prayer [Humperdinck] 4'20''

  3. Barcarolle [Offenbach] 2'47''

  4. Hushabye Mountain [Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman] 2'58''

  5. Wiegenlied [Brahms] 2'51''

  6. Bilbo's Last Song [J.R.R. Tolkien / Donald Swann] 3'51''

  7. Lullaby [Cantabile / Gershwin] 3'41''

  8. Haere Ra [Traditional / Scott / Kaihau] 1'48''

  9. Hawaiian Lullaby [Malcolm Sargent] 2'17''

  10. Moonshine Lullaby [Berlin] 3'34''

  11. Canción de Cuna para dormir a un Negrito [Montsalvatge] 2'47''

  12. My Lagan Love [Traditional / Campbell] 3'23''

  13. Schlafendes Jesuskind [Wolf] 3'18''

  14. Lullaby of Birdland [George Shearing] 2'54''

  15. Oblivion [Monteverdi] 3'31''

  16. Discendi, O Sonno Vago [Auber] 4'30''

  17. Lullaby (Hush Macushla) [Cantabile] 2'24''

  18. Nacht und Träume [Schubert] 3'29''

  19. Bilbo's Last Song [J.R.R. Tolkien / Stephen Oliver] 3'02''

  20. Stay Awake [Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman] 2'27''

  21. Goin' Home [Dvořák] 6'40''

  22. Our Revels Now Are Ended [John Dankworth] 2'55''

  23. Counting Up My Toes [David Cullen] 1'52''

    TOTAL DURATION : 74'40''

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Christmas with Cantabile - The London Quartet

This album brings together some of the best tracks from the Cantabile archive recording, 'A Perfect Christmas Present', with a new batch of carols and festive songs.

Richard Bryan, Robin Green, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan

With Paul Plummer (Piano)

Tracks 2,5,6,7,12,14,16,17 : Tenors: Paul Hull and Stewart Collins

Tracks 2,7 : Piano Andy Read

  1. Winter Wonderland (Dick Smith / Felix Bernard ) 2'35''

  2. The Little Road to Bethlehem (Margaret Rose / Michael Head ) 2'34''

  3. Gaudete (Traditional) 1'39''

  4. Tua Bethlem Dref (Wil Ifan / Edward Arthur ) 3'01''

  5. The Twelve Days of Christmas (Traditional) 2'41''

  6. Wexford Carol (Traditional) 4'31''

  7. White Christmas (Irving Berlin) 3'08''

  8. Süsser die Glocken nie klingen (Traditional) 2'54''

  9. Coventry Carol (Anonymous) 2'29''

  10. The First Mercy (Bruce Blunt / Peter Warlock) 2'47''

  11. The Jimmy Brown Song (Bert Resifeld / Jean Villard (’Gilles’) / Marc Herrand) 4'31''

  12. Lonely This Christmas (Nicky Chinn / Mike Chapman) 3'13''

  13. A Christmas Carol (Tom Lehrer) 1'50''

  14. The Christmas Song (Robert Wells / Mel Tormé) 2'37''

  15. The Carol Singers (Charles Hayes / Thomas Case Sterndale Bennett) 3'29''

  16. Silent Night (Josef Mohr / Franz Xaver Gruber) 2'43''

  17. Carol (various) 2'05''

  18. BONUS TRACK - Les Trois Cloches (Jean Villard (’Gilles’) / Marc Herrand) 4'13''

    TOTAL DURATION : 54'10''

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Madrigal to McCartney - Live in Singapore

Recorded in 2001 in front of phenomenally enthusastic audiences, this CD has Cantabile's usual eclecticism. As well as the 8 minute Beatles tribute, McCartney is represented by his timeless 'Yesterday' and a wonderful piece he commissioned in 1999 from Sir Richard Rodney Bennett as part of 'A Garland for Linda'.

2002

Richard Bryan, Jeremy Budd, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan

  1. Hark All ye Lovely Saints Above (Weelkes) 1'38''

  2. Comment amour me veux-tu tourmenter? (Arcadelt) 2'36''

  3. Il est bel et bon (Passereau) 1'16''

  4. Agnus Dei - Byrd (4-part Mass) (Byrd) 3'30''

  5. A Tribute to the Beatles (Lennon / McCartney / Harrison) 8'12''

  6. The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Dankworth) 1'49''

  7. The Long Day Closes (Sullivan) 3'16''

  8. Summertime (Gershwin) 2'33''

  9. My Romance (Rodgers and Hart) 2'16''

  10. Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Handman) 3'15'' 

  11. Strangers in the Night (Kaempfert) 3'23''

  12. Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight (Carter) 3'10''

  13. Yesterday (Lennon and McCartney) 1'58''

  14. A Good-Night (Richard Rodney Bennett) 2'45''

  15. Brahms' Lullaby (Brahms) 2'28''

    TOTAL DURATION : 44'18''

 

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Cantabile On the Tracks of...The Comedian Harmonist

Cantabile and celebrated accompanist Malcolm Martineau explore the 'English' output of this extraordinary vocal group of the 1930s. The disc also features a real rarity: the first cut of a song included in almost every Comedian Harmonists' concert, yet never recorded by them: Spolianksy's 'Auf Wiederseh'n

1999

Richard Bryan, Steve Trowell, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan

with Malcolm Martineau [piano]

  1. Let's Face the Music and Dance [Berlin arr. Erwin Bootz]

  2. When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba [Hupfeld - The Revelers]

  3. Mein kleiner, grüner Kaktus [Herda/Reisfeld/Marcuse]

  4. Sandmännchen [Zuccalmaglio/Brahms]

  5. Amapola [Lacalle arr. Cantabile] 

  6. The Continental [Magidson/Conrad]

  7. The Way You Look Tonight/A Fine Romance [Fields/Kern

  8. Voilà les Gars de la Marine [Boyer/Heymann]

  9. Der Lindenbaum [Müller/Schubert vocal arr. Cantabile]

  10. (In My) Solitude [De Lange/Ellington]

  11. In einem kühlen Grunde [Eichendorff/Gluck

  12. G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald [Bernhoff/Strauss]

  13. Snow White medley: Heigh Ho/Whistle While You Work/The Dwarfs' Yodel Song [Morey/Churchill]

  14. Auf Wiederseh'n! [Joachimson/Spoliansky]

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Cantabile - Live in Cape Town

1996  

Morgan Crowley, Paul Hull, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan

with Nigel Cook [piano]

  1. Perpetuum Mobile Op257 - a musical joke [Johann Strauss] 2'51''

  2. As If We Never Said Goodbye [Black/Hampton/Powers/Lloyd Webber] 3'09''

  3. The Music Of The Night [Hart/Stilgoe/Lloyd Webber] 4'35''

  4. My Favourite Things [Hammerstein/Rodgers] 3'25''

  5. Link into 'Creole Love Call' 2'17''

  6. Creole Love Call [Strayhorn/Ellington] 3'32''

  7. Leningrad [Billy Joel] 4'23''

  8. London By Night [Carol Coates] 2'07''

  9. Orpheus In The Underground [Hudson/Cantabile/Offenbach] 2'11''

  10. Starlight Express [Stilgoe/Lloyd Webber] 3'27''

  11. Five Guys Named Moe [Wynn/Bresler] 1'34''

  12. I Won't Send Roses [Herman] 2'02''

  13. Why God, Why? [Maltby Jnr./Boublil/Schönberg] 2'00''

  14. Bring Him Home [Kretzmer/Boublil/Schönberg]3'39''

  15. Lambeth Walk [Furber/Rose/Gay] 3'57''

  16. Fils De (Son Of...) [Jouannest/Brel] 4'17''

  17. Strangers In The Night [Singleton/Snyder/Kaempfert] 3'29''

  18. Can You Feel The Love Tonight? [Rice/John] 3'56''

  19. Pie Jesu [Lloyd Webber] 4'11''

    TOTAL DURATION : 1h 01'36''

 

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A Tribute to Hollywood (The one with Billy on)

A celebration of Academy Award winning songs and films. Some songs arranged by Cantabile, but others exquisitely honed by David Cullen, Neil Richardson, Nick Ingman, Gordon Langford, Andrew Pryce Jackman, David de Warrenne and Pete Moore.

1992

Bill Purefoy, Paul Hull, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan

  1. Up Where we belong (An Officer and a Gentleman) with full jazz orchestra [Jennings/Sainte-Marie/Nitzsche]

  2. As Time Goes By (Casablanca) with solo piano (of course!) [Hupfeld]

  3. Everybody's Talkin' (Midnight Cowboy) with string quartet [Neil]

  4. Take My Breath Away (Top Gun) with sequencer track plus electric guitar [Whitlock/Moroder]

  5. Evergreen (A Star is Born) with brass quintet [Williams/Streisand]

  6. I Just Called to Say I Love You (The Woman in Red) with string quartet [Wonder]

  7. 'Round Midnight ('Round Midnight) with jazz trio [Hanighan/Monk]

  8. Iko, Iko (Rain Man) with crazy percussion, guitar and solo baritone sax [trad./Hawkins]

  9. Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz) 8-part a cappella double Cantabile [Harburg/Arlen]

  10. Gee Officer Krupke (West Side Story) with 18-piece big band [Sondheim/Bernstein]

  11. Cavatina (The Deer Hunter) with brass quintet [Laine/Myers] 

  12. I Got Rhythm (An American in Paris) with Cantabile on instruments [Gershwin]

  13. Sooner or Later (Dick Tracy) with solo piano [Sondheim]

  14. Under the Sea (The Little Mermaid) with 9-piece band [Ashman/Menken]

  15. The Way We Were (The Way We Were) a cappella [Bergman/Hamlisch] 

  16. Lullaby of Broadway (Gold Diggers of 1935) with 18-piece big band [Dubin/Warren]

 

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Passions

As soon as the first run of Stephen McNeff's new opera was over, Cantabile and the rest of the cast got into the studio to capture the freshness of this new production, warts and all, and while, as the composer's sleeve note, reminds us, 'Passions' was still developing'.

In September 2001, Cantabile were back at BAC(Lavender Hill, Battersea) for another run of Passionsby Stephen McNeff and Alice Oswald, directed by Tom Morris. Commissioned by Cantabile with BAC, and based on Euripides' Alcestis, Passions is the story of a woman who gives up her life for her husband. Through interviews with heart-attack victims and women with experience of caring for the sick, the story is retold in the form of a passion, using aria, recitative and chorale. Performed by Cantabile with Adey Grummet (soprano) and Hannah Marshall ('cello), the work is austere, beautiful and thought-provoking and confronts issues that everyone has to face. 

Accompanied by music in the first half from Hildegard of Bingen, Byrd, Poulenc and McNeff, Passions was hailed by the Guardian as 'pick of the week', by Time Out as 'achingly beautiful' by the  Times as 'quietly impressive...and admirably performed' and by  Opera as 'a gripping musical experience... the voices were so strongly projected, the words so clearly articulated and the existence of the characters so vividly delineated that... one was drawn into their lives'.

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Cantabile in Cambridge

Cantabile romp through Classical music in their 'History of Western Music' fusing that with Henry VIII's 'Pastime with Good Company', Streisand/Chopin's 'The Minute Waltz', The Inkspots' 'Java Jive', The Comedian Harmonists' 'Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus', Elvis' 'Are You Lonesome Tonight?'.

1991

Richard Bryan, Paul Hull, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan

  1. Deo Gratias [Byrd]

  2. Fire, Fire my Heart [Morley]

  3. Weep, O mine Eyes [Bennet]

  4. Now is the Month of Maying [Morley]

  5. Myfanwy [Mynyddog/Parry]

  6. The Wee Cooper of Fife [trad. Scots, arranged by Guy Scott Turner]

  7. Pastime with Good Company [Henry VIII]

  8. The Minute Waltz O'Kun/Chopin

  9. Java Jive [Drake Oakland]

  10. Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus [Herda/Reisfeld/Marcuse]

  11. The History of Western Music [Various]

  12. Are you Lonesome Tonight? [Sherrin/Turk/Handman]

  13. Sentimental Journey [Green/Brown/Homer]

  14. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [Maschwitz/Sherwin]

  15. The Lambeth Walk [Furber/Rose/Gay]

  16. Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight [Carter/Hudson]

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The Perfect Christmas Present from Cantabile

1989

Richard Bryan, Stewart Collins, Paul Hull, Michael Steffan

with Andy Read [piano]

side 1     

  1. The Twelve Days of Christmas (trad. Arr P Knight) 2’39”

  2. The Little Road to Bethlehem (Rose/Head) 2’33”

  3. Christmas Alphabet (Kaye/Loman) 2’07”

  4. Silent Night (Mohr/Grüber) 2’42”

  5. Counting Up My Toes (unknown/Cullen) 2’15”

  6. You’re the Lady Who? (Cantabile) 3’47”

side 2     

  1. Wexford Carol (trad. Arr Cantabile) 4’29”

  2. Carol (various Arr Cantabile) 1’54”

  3. White Christmas (Berlin) 3’08”

  4. Lonely This Christmas (Chinn/Chapman) 3’13”

  5. The Christmas Song (Tormé/Wells) 2’35”

  6. Angelus Ad Virginem (trad. arr Cantabile/Cullen) 2’52”

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Cantabile - And Now…

1989

Richard Bryan, Stewart Collins, Paul Hull, Michael Steffan

with Andy Read [piano]

  1. Java Jive (Drake/Oakland) 2'42"

  2. I Got a Girl in Kalamazoo (Gordon/Warren) 3'09"

  3. Myfanwy (Mynyddog/Parry) 3'58"

  4. The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre (trad. Arr Cantabile) 1'55"

  5. I Just Can’t Stop Loving You (Jackson) 4'16"

  6. Carousel (La Valse à Mille Temps) (Shuman/Blau/Brel) 3'33"

  7. Jeepers Creepers (Mercer/Warren) 3'01"

  8. O Waly Waly (trad. arr Turner) 3'34”

  9. Sh-boom (Life Could Be a Dream) (Keyes/Feaster/McRae/Feaster/Edwards) 2'46"

  10. A Foggy Day (I & G Gershwin) 3'07"

  11. We Go Together (Casey/Jacobs) 3'07"

  12. Goodnight Sweetheart (Hudson/Carter) 3'12"

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Music of the Night

Recorded in 1987 Music of the Night represents a great adventure for Cantabile,for many reasons.It was the first time we had a major record company behind us; and most significantly, it provided the opportunity to develop our relationship with David Cullen.

1987

Richard Bryan, Stewart Collins, Paul Hull, Michael Steffan, with many other musicians in various guises. 

  1. Starlight Express (Stilgoe/Lloyd Webber) 3’06”

  2. Song on the sand (La Da Da Da) [La Cage aux Folles] (Herman) 3’34”

  3. Love Makes the World Go Round [Me & My Girl] (Gay) 2’43”

  4. She’s So Beautiful [Time] (Poulson) 3’15”

  5. The Music of the Night [The Phantom of the Opera] (Hart/Stilgoe/Lloyd Webber) 5’11”

  6. Little Shop of Horrors (Ashman/Menken) 3’18”

  7. Oh What a Circus [Evita] (Rice/Lloyd Webber) 3’28”

  8. Losing My Mind [Follies] (Sondheim) 4’03”

  9. The Rum Tum Tugger [Cats] (Eliot/Lloyd Webber) 3’38”

  10. Bring Him Home [Les Misérables] (Kretzmer/Boublil/Schönberg) 3’31”

  11. Tell Me It’s Not True [Blood Brothers] (Russell) 3’35”

  12. Anthem [Chess] (Andersson/Rice/Ulvaeus) 4’01”

 

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A Tribute to Yesterday

1986

Richard Bryan, Stewart Collins, Nicholas Ibbotson, Michael Steffan

with Ernst August Quelle [piano]

side 1     

  1. Swinging at the Cotton Club (Bell) 2’30”

  2. Stormy Weather (Koehler/Arlen) 4’05”

  3. Creole Love Call (Ellington) 2’45”

  4. Night and Day (Porter) 4’00”

  5.  Tea for Two (Caesar/Youmens) 3’05”

  6. Mood Indigo (Bigard/Mills/Ellington) 2’50”

side 2

  1. O, ich glaub’, ich hab’ mich verliebt (Beckmann/Bootz) 2’35”

  2. Heute Nacht oder nie (Schiffer/Spoliansky) 3’45”

  3. Kannst du pfeiffen, Johanna? (Bach/Axelson) 3’30”

  4. Du passt so gut zu mir (Rotter/Brodzky) 2’50”

  5. Jetzt oder nie (Biberti/Mucho) 2’40”

  6. Wenn ich vergnügt bin müss ich singen (Beckmann/Igelhoff) 3’35”

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Hear no Evil

1984

Richard Bryan, Stewart Collins, Nicholas Ibbotson, Michael Steffan

with Andy Read [piano] (side B)

side A 

  1. A Plea (Took/Cass)

  2. Crêpe Suzette (Cantabile/de Curtis)

  3. Air on a G String (Smoke gets in your Throat) (Bach)

  4. The Unauthorised Version (Cantabile/Stone)

  5. The Creole Love Call (Ellington)

  6. Orpheus in the Underground (Hudson/Cantabile/Offenbach)

  7. ‘Mta moja amakwenda (One Man went to Mow) (trad. arr Cantabile)

side B

  1. Scarborough Fair (trad. arr Simon/Rutter)

  2. The History of the World (various arr Cantabile)

  3. The House of Blue Lights (Raye/Slack)

  4. I will wait for you (Legrand arr Rutter)

  5. The Least of my Troubles (Rice/Oliver)

  6. Traffic Jam (Taylor)

  7. Stormy Weather (Kohler/Arlen)

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Town and Gown

The humours of Bath & Cambridge

1983

Richard Bryan, Stewart Collins, Nicholas Ibbotson, Michael Steffan

side 1     

THE SALUTATION

  1. The Royal Visit (Harington) 1’10”

  2. The Arrival at Bath (Harington) 1’20”

  3. Glee for the Bath Harmonic Society (Harington) 40”

    THE CATCH CLUB

  4. Let the Sparkling Wine Go Round (Rock) 2’20”

  5. Buz, Quoth the Blue Fly (Arne) 1’25”

  6. Laughing (Harington) 1’30”

  7. Quartetto – Ode to the Memory of Italian Virtuosi (Harington)3’20”

  8. Bacchus To Thee Alone (Dixon) 3’50”

  9. Under the Greenwood Tree, A ROUNDELAY in Canon (Harington) 40”

  10. The Vampire (Hayes) 3’10”

  11. Chloe at Cock’s Auction (Hayes) 1’40”

  12. A Yawning Catch to Affect the Company With (Harington) 1’25”

side 2     

THE PLEASURES OF THE FIELD

  1. Hail Smiling Morn (Spofforth) 1’55”

  2. Catch, Street Cry on Good Friday (Dixon) 1’00”

  3. Puntin’ (trad. arr Cantabile) 2’20”

  4. Foresters Sound the Cheerful Horn (Bishop) 1’40”

  5. Only (trad. arr Gillaspie) 1’40”

    THE JOYS OF CUPID

  6. Celia’s Charms (Webbe) 1’40”

  7. Ah How Sophia, or A House on Fire (Callcott) 1’30”

  8. The Kiss (Wright) 1’55”

  9. Go Idle Boy (Callcott) 2’30”

    THE VALEDICTORY

  10. To a Young Lady Upon the Author’s Leaving Bath (P Hayes) 2’20” 

  11. Are the White Hours For Ever Fled (Callcott) 3’05”

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Overture

1980

Richard Bryan, Stewart Collins, Nicholas Ibbotson, Michael Steffan

side 1     

OVERTURE

  1. Barber of Seville (Rossini) 5’02”

    ACT I: THE MENAGERIE

  2. Old MacDonald’s Farm (trad.) 2’24”

  3. The Owl and the Pussycat (Lear/de Koven) 3’20”

  4.  An Old Rat’s Tale (Bridge) 2’45”

  5. De Animals are Comin’ (trad.) 1’10”

    ENTR’ACTE

  6. The Magic Carpet (Spiegl/Jennings/Mozart) 3’08”

side 2

ACT II: THE BARBER’S SHOP

  1. Me an’ My Shadow (Jolson/Rose) 2’15”

  2. Yes Sir (That’s my Baby) (Donaldson/Kahn) 1’17” 

  3. Once in a While (Edwards/Green) 2’00”

  4. The Auctioneer (van Dyke) 2’13”

    ACT III: THE ‘COOL’ SCHOOL

  5. They All Laughed (I & G Gershwin) 1’53”

  6. White Shoe Blues (Johnston) 2’39”

  7. Mood Indigo (Bigard/Mills/Ellington) 2’38” 

    FINALE

  8. Italian salad (Genée) 6’25”

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The Great British A Cappella Songbook

Songs from and about the British Isles arranged for SATB

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A Festival of Carols in Two Minutes

In the space of two minutes, enjoy singing favourite moments from nearly 30 Christmas carols and songs in this medley arranged by Cantabile - the London Quartet