A compact disc based on the last six years of international touring by the UVic Chamber Singers is available for the first time.
Edited by Bruce More, who has conducted the Chamber Singers for the past 25 years, the disc presents selections from the so-called ³golden age² of choral music, circa 16th century, to the modern age. Approximately half of the selections are from the 20th century, and include selections from the Chamber Singers' large repertoire of Canadian works. There are works of composers encountered during the singers' travels, interspersed with the sounds of the British composer John Paynter and the lilting guitar-accompanied cycle of the Spanish composer Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco. Lastly, the singers are heard in a group of ethnic melodies including two love songs from Samoa and Bulgaria and a lullaby from South Africa.
³If you're looking for a highly produced and edited, perfect digital recording, don't buy this CD because it's all live performances, complete with coughs and all of the performance enthusiasm which only a live performance can bring,² says More.
The CD is stunningly packaged, with a West Coast black, white and red Chamber Singers' logo, created on a commission by Carey Newman, a Kwagiulth artist and a singer in the bass section of the choir.
The Chamber Singers have been critically acclaimed since they began going on concert tours in recent years. They have sung in 22 countries of Eastern and Western Europe, the Orient and the South Pacific in addition to eight U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. They have also recorded for broadcast on the CBC, University of California Radio, NCRV Radio in Holland and the national radios of China, Poland and Hungary.
The CD can be obtained at the UVic School of Music for $15 and, soon, the UVic Bookstore.
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