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Track(s) taken from SIGCD517

Mary had a baby

composer
Roderick Williams (b1965)
author of text
Anonymous - traditional
African-American spiritual

Andrew Woodmansey (tenor), Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir, Ralph Allwood (conductor)
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Recording details: April 2017
The Chapel of St Peter and St Paul, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, United Kingdom
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by Mike Hatch
Release date: December 2017
Total duration: 2 minutes 0 seconds
 

Reviews

‘[Roderick Williams] modestly calls himself a ‘singer who also composes’, but this runs the risk of minimising the strong practical core to his attractive and beautifully written music, which deserves a much wider audience. Thankfully, Signum Classics has done him proud with a generously filled 16-track anthology which displays an astonishing stylistic versatility’ (Gramophone)
This spiritual arrangement is one of several that were commissioned by Oxford University Press for their Spirituals for Choirs volumes. Although they have an optional piano part, they were also specifically designed to be sung unaccompanied, as desired. The idea was to give all the voice parts a decent crack at the melodies and, hopefully, to be great fun to sing.

from notes by Roderick Williams © 2017

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