In 1997, as part of our commitment to promote choral music in our community, we established a collection of choral music compact disks that are available for circulation at the Jamestown Philomenian Library. »Search OSLRI for items in Library Catalog
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Newport Folk Festival Recordings:
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Spring 2013 Donations:
Mozart – The Magic Flute – Metropolitan Opera-2006
Puccini – La Boheme – Metropolitan Opera – 1977
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala – 1983
Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro – Metropolitan Opera – 1985
Verdi – La Traviata – Los Angeles Opera with Renee Fleming – 2006
Donizetti – L’Elisir d’Amore – – 2005
Wagner – Die Walkure – Metropolitan Opera – 2011
Bizet – Carmen – Metropolitan Opera – 2010
Rent – Final Broadway Performance – 2008
Spring 2012 Donations:
Cloudburst – Eric Whitacre – Polyphony directed by Stephen Layton, Hyperion CDA65743
Mendelssohn – Complete Choral Works – (10CD Box) – Chamber Choir of Europe, directed by Nicol Matt – Brilliant Classics
Michael Buble – 143 Records/Reprise 48376-2
Schumann – Dichterliebe – F. Wunderlich, tenor, Giesen, piano – DGG 449-747-2
Lauridsen – Lux Aeterna – Los Angeles Master Chorale, Salamunovich – RCM – 19705 (replacement)
Songs by Samuel Barber – Gerald Finley, Julius Drake – Hyperion CDA65728
Brahms – Choral Works – Danish National Radio Orchestra, directed by Stefan Parkman-Chandos CHAN9806
Romantic Classics – The Great American Love Songs – Varese Saraband 302 066 538 2
Brahms Lieder – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – (6CD set) – Brilliant Classics
Past Donations
By Composer:
Bach – Mass in B Minor
Bach: Cantatas No. 147; Motets – David Willcocks
Bach and Vivaldi – Gloria
Bach – Cantata #4
Bach – Cantatas – 147, 227, 140, 80 (2-Disk – EMI MC 61558) (04)
Bach – Passion According To St. John – Harmonia Mundi HMX 2951264.65
Bach – St. Matthew Passion
Beethoven – Mass in C – Telarc CD-80248) (04)
Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – Archiv 429779-2
Bernstein – Chichester Psalms w/Stravinsky-Symphony of Psalms and Poulenc’s Gloria
Brahms – Choral Works
Brahms – German Requiem
Brahms: Secular Choral Songs – RIAS-Kammerchor
Britten – Ceremony of Carols
Britten – War Requiem
Durufle – Requiem
Faure – Requiem
Finzi – Choral Works – The Finzi Singers – Chandos – 8936 (06)
Haydn – The Creation
Lauridsen – Lux Aeterna – Salamanovich, LA Master Chorale – RCM 19705
Lauridsen: Nocturnes
Lloyd-Webber – Requiem – London 444 616-2
Mendelssohn – Elijah
Mozart – Great Choral Works (including Requiem, Great Mass) – BBC Symphony – Philips Classics
Mozart – Requiem
Orff – Carmina Burana – RCA Red Seal – 07863-56533-2
Palestrina – Pope Marcellus Mass
Arvo Part – De Profundis – harmonia mundi -907182 (06)
Poulenc – Sacred Music – Cambridge Singers – Collegium (03)
Rachmaninoff – Vespers
Rodgers and Hammerstein – Allegro
Gilbert and Sullivan – HMS Pinafore
Thompson, Randall – Testament of Freedom and Frostiana – (Koch – 3-7283)(04)
Vaughan-Williams – A Collection of Hymns – Conifer 75605-5129-2
Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
Vaughn Williams – Five Mystical Songs
Vaughn Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Vaughn Williams – Flos Campi
Verdi – Requiem – Reiner, Vienna Philharmonic – London – 444 832-2
By Performer:
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific (The New Broadway Cast)
Anonymous 4 – On Yoolis Night
The Azusa Pacific University Choir and Orchestra – Celebrate the Child (04)
Anonymous 4 – American Angels – Songs of Hope, Redemption and Glory – harmonia mundi –
HMUhmu 907326 (05)
Boston Camerata – American Vocalist
Boston Camerata – An American Christmas – (04)
Boston Camerata – The Liberty Tree
Cambridge Singers – Olde English Madrigals – American Gramophone – AG-500-2 (06)
Cambridge Singers – There is Sweet Music
Cambridge Singers – John Rutter Collection – Decca – 289-472-622- 2 (06)
Chanticleer – A Portrait – Teldec Classics 0927 4907-2 (08)
Chanticleer – Wondrous Love
Chorovaya Akademia – Ancient Echoes (04)
Concordia Choir – “My Soul’s Delight” – Rene Clausen, director – Collegium Recordings (03)
Dale Warland Singers – Blue Wheat
Hilliard Ensemble – English and Italian Madrigals
King Singers – Nightsong
King’s Singers – Madrigal History Tour – EMI – CDM 7 69837 2
King’s Singers – Here’s a Howdy Do – A Gilbert and Sullivan Festival – RCA Victor – 09026-61885-2 (05)
The Male Choir of St. Petersburg – EMI 7243 5 73166 2 0
Songs of the Civil War Era – Mormon Tabernacle Choir – Sony (03)
Song of the Volga Boatmen – Slavyanka Russian Men’s Chorus (03)
Swingle Singers – Bach Hits Back/A Cappella Amadeus – Virgin Classics (03)
Choir of Trinity College Cambridge – Choral Moods – (2CDs) Conifer 75605-51308-2 (05)
Turtle Creek Chorale – “Postcards” – World Choral Music – Reference Recordings (03)
Vienna Choir Boys – Die Wiener Sanger-Knaben – Portrait – Philips – 434 726-2 (05)
Collections:
Best of the Renaissance (2-Disk – Philips STDDUOSE2) (04)
Great Masters – Beethoven
Great Masters – J.S. Bach (8 CD set)
Greatest Choral Show – Various (Decca 289 466 075-2)
Greatest Choruses – RCA Victor – 09206-61241-2
Greatest Hits – The Chorus – Famous Choral Works – (Sony MLK 62684) (04)
Gregorian Chant – St. Benedictine Monks –
Shaw/Parker – Amazing Grace
O Magnum Mysterium – (Victoria, Poulenc, etc.)
The Only Choral CD You’ll Ever Need – BMG/RCA 09076-63760-2
Palestrina Masses: Missa Brevis
The Power and the Majesty – Essential Choral Classics – Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony – Telarc CD-80397
Renaissance Choral Treasures – Tallis, Victoria and Palestrina
Rivers of Delight – American Folk Hymns from the Sacred Harp Tradition – the Word of Mouth Chorus – Elektra/Nonesuch – 9 71360-2 (05)
Voices 1900/2000 – A Choral Journey Through the 20th Century – San Francisco Chorus – Delos DE 3270 (05)
West Side Story-The New Broadway Cast Recording
World Voices 1 – World Class 11304-2 – Various Artists (05)
The Holly and the Ivy – Clare College Choir (04)
DVDs donated in 2008
(films that were represented in our Spring Concert “JCC Goes to the Movies”)
Henry V
Brother, Where Art Thou?
Sister Act
Babe
Oscar and Lucinda
The Big Lebowski
A Clockwork Orange
Topsy-Turvy
OTHER DVD’s
Great Masters – Mozart-His Life and Music (DVD)