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| LABEL: |
THE
DOWNSIDE SCHOLA CANTORUM
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| CATALOG
NUMBER: |
N/A
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| UPC
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N/A
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| NUMBER OF DISCS: |
1
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| RUNNING TIME: |
1:13:45
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| YEAR
RECORDED: |
MARCH
26, 2000
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| CD
RELEASE DATE: |
2000
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| CONDUCTOR: |
CHRISTOPHER
TAMBLING
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| ORCHESTRA: |
THE
DOWNSIDE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
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| CHOIR: |
THE
DOWNSIDE SCHOLA CANTORUM
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| TREBLES: |
HENRY
HUDSON-EVANS, BENJAMIN TAMBLING,
FREDDIE NORTON
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| ALTO: |
JOHN
TULLY
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| TENORS: |
CHRISTOHER
BUCKNALL, GEORGE NORTON, WILLIAM
EDWARDS
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| BASS: |
FRANCIS
TULLY, BARNABY BEER, DOMiNIC
TIGHE, BENEDICT CARTER
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DISC ONE
1. Comfort Ye My People (Christopher
Bucknall)
2. And The Glory Of The Lord
3. Thus Saith The Lord (Francis Tully)
4. And He Shall Purify
5. O thou that tellest good tidings to
Zion (John Tully)
6. For behold, darkness (Barnaby Beer)
7. The people that walked in darkness (Dominic
Tighe)
8. For unto us a child is born
9. And the angel said unto them (Henry
Hudson-Evans)
10. And suddenly there was (Benjamin
Tambling)
11. Glory to God
12. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Freddie
Norton)
13. His yoke is easy, and his burthen is
light
14. Surely, he has borne our griefs
15. And with his stripes we are healed
16. All we like sheep have gone astray
17. All they that see him (Christopher
Bucknall)
18. He trusted in god
19. Thy rebuke hath broken his heart (George
Norton)
20. But thou didst not leave (William
Edwards)
21. Hallelujah
22. Since by man came death
23. Behold I tell you a mystery (Dominic
Tighe)
24. The trumpet shall sound (Barnaby
Beer, Benedict Carter & Dominic
Tighe)
25. Worthy is the lamb that was slain
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SITE RATING: 1/10
SITE
REVIEW: I believe this is a private
release, as it was recorded on CD-R, and the
inserts also appear to be hand-made on a laser
printer. And as much as I expect most
English choral schools to be of high quality,
I was expecting perhaps more than necessary,
as this performance and recording is of very
low quality. Although the orchestra
seems to be fairly proficient, the soloists,
chorus, and direction is all tentative and
delivers a performance that, in all fairness,
could only be loved by their mothers.
Pitches are continually problematic, melismas
are slurred through is a rather frightening
manner, and tempos can best be described as
"lurching." Imagine, if you will, a
beginner's class on baroque music deciding to
give a concert after, perhaps, a week of
preparation - that's about the level of
expertise and finesse you'll find here.
In fact, when I first received the disc, I was
in doubt I would be able to listen to it at
all; seventeen years is a long time for a CD-R
to keep it's data intact, and the disc would
not play on three different players I
tried! Eventually, I was able to extract
the music onto my computer in high-quality
.wav files, but even so, there is much static
and crackling present throughout - but even
these couldn't hide the fact that this was a
fairly dire concert. Here's hoping that
the Downside
Schola Cantorum has seen a large
bump in the quality of it's music program in
the time since this program was recorded.
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