The St Catharine's Girls' Choir, Cambridge, with director Edward Wickham, celebrate ten years since their foundation with this album of works for upper voices. In marking the momentous occasion in 2008 when St Catharine's created the first college-based girls' choir, the current choristers of this acclaimed group present a varied programme of secular works from British composers including Britten, Bennett and a world premiere by Sally Beamish. The St. Catharine's Girls' Choir- the only college-based girls' choir in the UK- was founded in 2008. The choir sings weekly in the College Chapel, as well as giving regular concerts and it's repertoire extends from the early Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, with several works written specially for it. The choir is made up of twenty girls, aged between eight and fifteen, drawn from local schools; and for this recording is augmented by former choristers. The choir has performed in some of the UK's leading venues, and has performed live in Radio 3's The Choir and toured to Poland and Hungary.

Tracklist:

It Sounded As If The Streets Were Running: I. It Sounded As If The Streets Were Running
It Sounded As If The Streets Were Running: II. I Saw No Way
It Sounded As If The Streets Were Running: III. How Happy Is The Little Stone
The Insect World: I. The Insect World
The Insect World: II. The Fly
The Insect World: III. Glow-Worms
The Insect World: IV. Clock-A-Clay
The Aviary: I. The Bird’s Lament
The Aviary: II. The Owl
The Aviary: III. The Early Nightingale
The Aviary: IV. The Widow Bird
The Aviary: V. The Lark
Five Poems Of Mary Webb: I. To Life
Five Poems Of Mary Webb: II. Reflections
Five Poems Of Mary Webb: III. The Spirit Of Earth
Five Poems Of Mary Webb: IV. Safe
Five Poems Of Mary Webb: V. To The World
Seven Songs: I. I Have A Bird
Seven Songs: II. Over The Fence
Seven Songs: III. How Happy Is The Little Stone
Seven Songs: IV. Adrift
Seven Songs: V. I'm Nobody
Seven Songs: VI. I Shall Keep Singing
Seven Songs: VII. Sunset
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: I. Begone, Dull Care
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: II. A Tragic Story
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: III. Cuckoo!
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: IV. 'ee-Oh!'
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: V. A New Year Carol
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: VI. I Mun Be Married On Sunday
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: VII. There Was A Man Of Newington
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: VIII. Fishing Song
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: IX. The Useful Plough
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: X. Jazz-Man
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: XI. There Was A Monkey
Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: XII. Old Abram Brown

UPC: 5060262791288
Label: Resonus Classics
Release Date: 9.7.18
Format: CD

The St Catharine's Girls' Choir - Sing Levy Dew (CD)