Recordings
St Charles Singers have six recordings available for purchase
Aaron Copland
Old American Songs
A Naxos Recording featuring St Charles Singers and Elgin Symphony Orchestra.
The Tender Land Suite; Piano Concerto, featuring Benjamin Pasternack; Old American Songs, Vol. 1: The Boatmen's Song, The Dodger, Long Time Ago, Simple Gifts, I Bought Me A Cat; Old American Songs, Vol. 2: The Little Horses, Zion's Walls, The Golden Willow Tree, At the River, Ching-a-ring Chaw
2008 Total Time: 63:42 DDD $20.00
Christmas in St. Charles
A Proteus Entertainment release featuring the Metropolis Chamber Orchestra
Carols, original works, & arrangements by Rutter, Parker/Shaw, Willcocks, Luboff, Pórt, Handel, others
Clip Sans Day Carol, Trad./arr. Rutter
"One of those wonderful, down-home Midwestern American ensembles offering solid technique and shimmering, well-balanced choral textures." — American Record Guide
Sans Day Carol Trad/arr. Rutter; Away in a Manger Kirkpatrick/arr. Rutter; Nativity Carol Rutter; Quittez, Pasteurs Trad/arr. Rutter; I Sing of a Maiden Hadley; Bogoróditse Djévo (Mother of God and Virgin) Pórt; I Wonder as I Wander Trad/arr. Boyd; Angels We Have Heard on High French Carol; For Unto Us a Child Is Born Handel; While Stars Their Vigil Keep Luvaas; Spanish Lullaby arr. Carter; Masters in This Hall arr.
Parker/Shaw; Christmas Night 16th Cent./arr. Rutter; Little Road to Bethlehem Head; Donkey Carol Rutter;
Jingle Bells arr. Langford; Ding Dong Merrily on High 16th Cent. French Carol; El Noy de la Mare Trad/Garno/Llobet; Still, Still, Still Keith andBergman/arr. Luboff
2004 Total Time: 54:30 DDD $15.00
I Know Where I’m Going
A Proteus Entertainment release featuring the Metropolis Chamber Orchestra
Choral Music by John Rutter & American and British Folk Songs
Clip Flower of Beauty, John Clements
“The singing is invariably clear and cleanly articulated, the voices bright and generally well-balanced, the overall performances benefiting from crisp rhythms and phrasing and dynamic choices that bring character and excitement to each piece.” — David Vernier, Classics Today
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred arr. Rutter; There Is a Garden in Her Face arr. Rutter; The Urchin’s Dance arr. Rutter; Riddle Song arr. Rutter; Midnight’s Bell arr. Rutter; The Bellman’s Song arr. Rutter; Flower of Beauty Clements; The Keel Row arr. Rutter; The Turtle Dove arr. Vaughn Williams; Black is The Color of My True Love’s Hair arr. Churchill; Lamorna arr. Richards; Black Sheep arr. Rutter; Down By the Sally Gardens arr. Rutter; He’s Gone Away arr. Nelson; Swansea Town arr. Holst; The Oak and The Ash arr. Langford; Early One Morning arr. Wilcocks; I Know Where I’m Going arr. Rutter
2003 Total Time 52:08 DDD $15.00
Live at Clare College Chapel, Cambridge
Recorded on July 18, 2000
Music of John Rutter, Moses Hogan, Aaron Copland, George Shearing and other carols
Clip Monday’s Child, Rutter
Clip Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair, Churchill
Clip Organ Fugue BWV578, J.S. Bach
Ave Maria, Busto; Latin Magnificat in B flat, Stanford; My Lord, What a Mornin', arr./Burleigh; Give Me Jesus, arr./Fleming; Elijah Rock, arr./Hogan; At the River, Copland; The Promise of Living, Copland; The Blue Bird, Stanford; Monday's Child, Trad. Rutter; The Owl and the Pussycat, Lear; Windy Nights, Stevenson; Matthew, Mark, Luke & John; Trad.; Sing a Song of Sixpence, Trad.; Lullaby of Birdland, Shearing; Live with Me and Be My Love, Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare, Shearing; When Daffodils begin to pear, Shearing; It Was a Lover and his Lass, Shearing; Spring, Shearing; Who is Sylvia, Shearing; Fie on Sinful Fantasy, Shearing; Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain, Shearing; Shenandoah, arr./Erb; Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair, arr./Churchill; Organ Fugue BWV578, Bach/arr./Ward Swingle
2000 Total Time 72:00 DDD $5.00
Candlelight Carols
A live recording December 2003 at Baker Memorial Methodist Church, St Charles, Illinois
Featuring carols and works by Poston, Rutter, Burt, Pfautsch, Howells, Busto and more.
Clip Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Clip I Saw Three Ships
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, Poston; What Sweeter Music, Rutter; O Come Little Children, arr/Jennings; I Saw Three Ships, arr/Jennings; Caroling, Caroling, Burt; Go Tell It On the Mountain, arr/Jennings; Gift Carol, arr/Pfautsch, Myn Liking, Terry; Sing Lullaby, Howells; Ave Maria, Busto; Hymn to the Nativity, Leighton; Infant Holy, arr/Wilcocks, Once in Royal David’s City, arr/Wilcocks; The Virgin’s Slumber Song, Reger; Star Carol, Burt; Silent Night, arr/Sargent; In the Bleak Midwinter, Holst
2003 Total Time 80:00 DDD $10.00
Christmas with St Charles Singers
Traditional carols and other pieces by Wilcocks, Rutter, Darke, Howells, Pettman, J.S. Bach
Clip Carol of the Bells
Clip A Spotless Rose
Clip Ding Dong Merrily on High
Clip O Little Sweet One
O Come, All Ye Faithful — arr/ David Willcocks; Carol of the Bells — Lentovich, arr/Wilhousky; The Little Drummer Boy — arr/John McCarthy; In the Bleak Mid-Winter — Harold Darke; King Jesus Hath a Garden — arr/John Rutte; A Spotless Rose — Herbert Howells; Ding Dong Merrily On High — arr/ C. Jennings; In Dulci Jubilo — arr/John Rutte; Away in a Manger ,Kirkpatrick, arr/John Rutter;,Lo How a Rose E're Blooming,Praetorius; I Saw a Maiden arr/ Edgar Pettman; Zither Carolarr/Malcom Sargent; The First Nowell, arr/David Willcocks; O Little One Sweet — harmonized by J.S. Bach
2003Total Time 34:08 DDD $10.00
