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Due West: Music of Stephen ChatmanVancouver Chamber Choir Chorus/Choir, Jon Washburn Conductor
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This is a well-performed clutch of choral works by Stephan Chatman entitled Due West. As the title suggests, the music has a frontier atmosphere, hardly avant-garde but consistently pleasant. The performing ensemble is the Vancouver Chamber Choir, directed by Jon Washburn, a group that has garnered awards from around the world, and is clearly on top of the material on this disc. Every one of the 13 works is delivered with sumptuous grace and flawless technique. Washburn has sculpted each piece carefully so that no throwaway renditions mar the product. The sound quality is also excellent, recorded at the ensemble's hometown in 2000 with excellent digital technology. Chatman's choral writing is a convincing mix of practical, hammer and nails colonial singing material with a dash of the experimental Old World, so that the singers deal with a rustic sound much of the time, with the occasional, energy inducing, post-functional harmony. There is not a great deal of musical mystery to the works, but they also have a genuine feel for the Untamed West, from the Klondike to Southern California. What listeners can count on is flawless delivery, making this recording a must-hear for all lovers of choral music © John Keillor, All Music Guide
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© 2008 All Media Guide, LLC. All Music Guide is a registered trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.
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Stephen Chatman ComposerDue West, for chorus Work
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| 1 | Train | 1:23 |
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| 2 | Prairie Lullaby | 2:31 |
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| 3 | Wasps | 1:23 |
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| 4 | Sunset | 1:53 |
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| 5 | Chickadee | 2:17 |
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| 6 | Thou Whose Harmony is the Music, for oboe & chorus | 4:08 |
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Stephen Chatman ComposerRossetti Songs (2) for chorus Work
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| 7 | Song and Music | 3:45 |
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| 8 | Remember | 2:59 |
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Stephen Chatman ComposerRose-cheek'd Laura, Come, for chorus Work |
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| 9 | Rose-cheek'd Laura, Come, for chorus | 1:37 |
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Stephen Chatman ComposerDryads' Bells, for chorus Work |
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| 10 | Dryads' Bells, for chorus | 2:10 |
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Stephen Chatman ComposerElizabethan Summer, for SATB a capella Work
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| 11 | Cuckoo | 1:49 |
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| 12 | Golden Slumbers | 1:53 |
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| 13 | Come Away, Sweet Love | 1:22 |
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Stephen Chatman ComposerBlow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, for chorus Work |
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| 14 | Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, for chorus | 5:02 |
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Stephen Chatman ComposerCanadian Folksongs (5) for chorus Work
11:16
Violet Goosen Soprano,
Vancouver Chamber Choir Chorus/Choir,
Jon Washburn Conductor,
Lorraine Reinhardt Soprano
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| 15 | À la volette | 2:41 |
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| 16 | O Prairie Land | 2:11 |
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| 17 | An Old Man He Courted Me | 2:41 |
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| 18 | She's Like the Swallow | 2:22 |
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| 19 | Lukey's Boat | 1:21 |
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Stephen Chatman ComposerLux Aeterna, for chorus Work |
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| 20 | Lux Aeterna, for chorus | 5:58 |
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Stephen Chatman ComposerGloria, for double choir Work |
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| 21 | Gloria, for double choir | 3:02 |
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Stephen Chatman ComposerIn Flanders Fields, for chorus Work |
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| 22 | In Flanders Fields, for chorus | 2:26 |
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| 23 | In the Glow of the Moon, for women's chorus & piano | 4:18 |
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| 24 | Pals | 1:11 |
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| 25 | Memories | 2:03 |
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| 26 | The Scout | 1:10 |
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| 27 | Roses I Send To You | 2:41 |
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| 28 | The Calliope | 1:21 |
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