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Choral Society of Durham
 
CD Recordings
 

A Tribute to Robert Shaw

Our CD recordings are available for sale at our concerts and from Choral Society members for $15 each.

We also offer a CD as a premium for Friends who contribute $500 or more.

To order CDs by mail, send a check for $17 per CD (including shipping), payable to Choral Society of Durham, to the following address:

Choral Society of Durham
120 Morris Street
Durham, NC 27701

Be sure to include the following information:

  1. Your name, mailing address, and phone number or e-mail address (in case we have questions about your order).
  2. The CD title(s) and quantity.

Please allow up to four weeks for your CD order to arrive by mail.

For a printable CD order form in PDF format (viewable with Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later), click here. (You may also use this form to order tickets and make Friends contributions.)

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A Tribute to Robert Shaw
Arrangements of carols, hymns, and spirituals by Robert Shaw and Alice Parker, plus works associated with Shaw and performed at his 1999 memorial concert in Atlanta

Recorded live in concert*
December 7 & 8, 2001

Rodney Wynkoop conducting
The Choral Society of Durham
Jane Lynch, accompanist

Carols: Spirituals:
Masters in this Hall I'm Goin’ To Sing
Here, Mid the Ass and Oxen Mild John Saw Duh Numbuh
Tour-louro-louro Deep River
Il est né Shaw memorial concert:
What Child is This Ain’-a That Good News (arr. Dawson)
Good King Wenceslaus Soon Ah Will Be Done (arr. Dawson)
Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Bogoroditse Devo
Hacia Belén va un borrico (from Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil)
Ya viene la vieja How lovely is thy dwelling place
Fum, fum, fum (from Brahms’s A German Requiem)
I Saw Three Ships Sing to God, ye hosts unnumbered
Early American hymns: (from Haydn’s Creation)
Begin, My Soul  
Saints Bound for Heaven  

*Please note that, as this is a live concert recording, some audience noise can be heard.

Click here for an on-line review in Classical Voice North Carolina.
A new window will open, containing the CVNC CD review archives. Scroll down to see the review, or use your browser’s “find” function to search for “Tribute to Robert Shaw.”

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Carl Orff'sCarmina Burana CD
Carmina Burana

Recorded live in concert*
February 26, 2000

Rodney Wynkoop conducting
The Choral Society of Durham
The Duke University Chorale
The North Carolina Boys Choir
and guest choristers from
area schools**

with full orchestra

Grant Youngblood, baritone
Jo Anne Greene-Beatty, soprano
John Daniecki, tenor

“This recording may well long serve as a yardstick for ‘measuring’ other choral-orchestral presentations here. The concert was that good. So, too, is the CD.”

Click here for the full on-line review in Classical Voice North Carolina.
A new window will open, containing the CVNC CD review archives. Scroll down to see the review, or use your browser
s find function to search for “Orff.”

*Please note that, as this is a live concert recording, some audience noise can be heard, and the dynamic range is very wide.

**As part the Choral Society’s outreach efforts, choir directors at area public schools were invited to select students to participate in the performance. Twenty-six students sang in the chorus, from the Durham School of the Arts, Durham’s Jordan, Northern, and Riverside high schools, and East Chapel Hill High School.

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A Christmas ConcertA Christmas Concert CD
of Carols from Many Lands

Recorded live in Duke Chapel

Rodney Wynkoop conducting
The Choral Society of Durham
Jane Lynch, accompanist

Highlights of Christmas concerts,
recorded 1990, ’91, ’93 & ’94

Program:

Welcome, Gay Kolyada (Russian) Hush, My Little Child (Polish)
Il Est Né le Divin Enfant (French) He Is Sleeping in a Manger (Polish)
Villancico (Puerto Rican) See the Radiant Sky Above (Grundtvig)
Companions All Sing Loudly (Basque) Sang til Juletreet (Grieg)
Gabriel’s Message (Basque) Strålande Jul (Nordqvist)
O, Bethlehem (Basque) O Yule, Full of Gladness (Norwegian)
Hacia Belén Va un Borrico (Spanish) Ave Maris Stella (Grieg)
The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy (West Indian) A Cradle Song (Waldo Beach)

Mary Had a Baby (spiritual)

Still, Still, Still (Austrian)
Glory, Hallelujah! to the New-Born King (spiritual) Lo! How a Rose E’er Blooming (German, arr. Distler)

Three Selections from Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil:

O Come, Let Us Worship
Glory Be to God
Laud Ye the Name of the Lord

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