Choral & Sacred

Psalms

Psalms and chants from the Anglican and Taizé traditions, with two hymns, directed by Peter Chapman. Cantus Choro’s recording shows his love of Anglican psalmody, lively musicianship, and care for phrasing and words.

Laughing

The internationally acclaimed Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, turns to the lighter side of a cappella singing across jazz, madrigal and spiritual repertoire.

Sing Together Alleluia

Hymns sung by the Sing Alleluia Music Ministry Team, drawn from Sing Alleluia, appear in Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II. The selection favours material not already on the earlier two-disc companion set.

The Choir of Ormond College Live

A live retrospective for the Choir of Ormond College’s twenty-first year, gathering concert recordings from 1985 to 2000 under Douglas Lawrence, from Britten’s Festival Te Deum and Fauré’s Requiem to Bach, Palestrina, Poulenc and lively encores.

Pablo

Melbourne a cappella sextet Pablo make their Move debut with pop, folk and spirituals. Close harmony takes in Billy Joel, The Beatles, sea shanties and gospel-tinged arrangements.

Beatus Vir

Recorded live on their 1999 European tour, the Choir of Ormond College under Douglas Lawrence presents small-scale sacred works in up to eight parts by Palestrina, Gesualdo, Handl, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Stanford and Rheinberger.

Kodály Missa Brevis

Recorded on their 1997 European tour in Northern Italy and Germany, the Choir of Ormond College sings Kodály’s Missa Brevis, with works by Tye, Howells and Bach.

Music from Heaven

The Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, in a highly acclaimed programme of unaccompanied sacred works by Allegri, Byrd, Poulenc, Britten, Barber and J.S. Bach.

Songs and Praises

Favourite hymns from the Australian Hymn Book, Vol. 3. Choir and organ fill Trinity College Chapel, Melbourne, with the thrilling sound that hymn lovers know so well.

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

The highly acclaimed recording of the Choir of Ormond College's European tour. Includes the amazing choral soundscape I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Australian composer Philip Nunn.

There is an Island

A tuneful, dramatic cantata by Don Kay on Tasmania’s early colonial history and the fate of the full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal people, with Clive Sansom’s lyrics. Paired with George Dreyfus’s The Song of the Maypole.

I Can Tell The World

Saucy Purcell rounds, madrigals, drinking songs, spirituals and English folk settings from one of Australia's finest choirs, directed by Douglas Lawrence.

Bach Byrd Britten

The Choir of Ormond College, directed by Douglas Lawrence, presents Bach, Byrd and Britten. Bach’s motet Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden and Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices stand beside Britten’s Five Flower Songs and A Ceremony of Carols.

An anthology of sacred hymns for classical guitar

Twelve well-known sacred hymns in solo classical-guitar arrangements by American guitarist James Sundquist, among them How Great Thou Art, Joyful Joyful we adore thee and Morning has broken.

The Spirit of the Lord

The Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, directed from the organ by June Nixon, presents sacred choral works by Edward Elgar and Edward Bairstow.

When David heard that Absalom was slain

The Choir of Ormond College specialised in liturgical music of the 16th and 20th centuries. This recording also includes psalm settings, among them Allegri’s Miserere, a setting of the penitential Psalm 51 once reserved for the Sistine Chapel in Holy Week.

Hymns For All Seasons

Sixteen further hymns from Cantus Choro, recorded in the grand acoustic of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne. The programme opens with Advent and follows the great events of the Christian year, with Norman Kaye at the organ and the Melbourne Brass Ensemble.

The Choir of Ormond College Melbourne

Directed by Douglas Lawrence, who led chapel music at Ormond College, Melbourne, for more than twenty years, this recording presents the college choir in English church music of the sixteenth and twentieth centuries.

Sing Out With Joy

Cantus Choro, directed by Peter Chapman, sings seventeen favourite hymns from the Australian Hymn Book. Norman Kaye’s imaginative organ accompaniments give the well-known settings fresh dramatic shape and room for the choir to breathe.

Psalms for Feasts and Seasons

Christopher Willcock’s twenty-two responsorial psalm settings cover the feasts and seasons of the church year, written for cantor, congregation and modest choral forces with organ, flute and guitar.

The Sound of Rosny

The Australian Rosny Children's Choir and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra present songs from other lands, Chinese and Australian repertoire, and cantata movements by Vaughan Williams and Don Kay.

Victoria Victoria

A double CD of Victoria’s 150th Gala Choral Concert, given in the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, in 1985. A thousand-voice choir and orchestra under Richard Divall frame Léon Caron’s prize-winning Victoria Cantata of 1880.

Seven Whole Days: Music for the Contemporary Church

Seven Whole Days is Jim Minchin’s second Move album of contemporary church song, recorded across Melbourne and Singapore in 1969 with singers and instrumentalists from both places.

Sing Round the Year

Donald Swann gathers eighteen carols and kindred songs of worship and praise, arguing that a carol need not be confined to Christmas. School choirs, organ and his own piano and voice share the programme.

Move Two Mix: Music for the Contemporary Church

Move Two Mix gathers religious songs and hymns with music by Jim Minchin, marrying familiar sacred texts to jazz- and folk-inflected settings. First issued in 1968, this pioneering Melbourne recording brought contemporary idioms into church worship.

Gold

The Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence, performs works by eight Australian composers. From Gordon Kerry’s Shakespeare setting to Malcolm Williamson’s English Eccentrics, the programme turns individual voices into pure gold.

Keys to Heaven

The Australian Chamber Choir opens with the first recording of Agata della Pietà’s cantata Ecce nunc, written in eighteenth-century Venice by an orphan of the Ospedale della Pietà and reconstructed by Elizabeth Anderson. Sacred works by Palestrina and Allegri complete the programme.

Luminescence

Light is integral to colour, and musical integrity is often described in terms of its colour or luminescence. Celebrating Canticum’s 21st birthday, the programme seeks composers whose music shows a particular sensitivity to the choral instrument and to beautiful text.

Soul

Douglas Lawrence OAM leads the Australian Chamber Choir through sacred music spanning Renaissance polyphony, early Baroque splendour and African-American spirituals.

Josquin to Martin

A miscellany spanning High and Late Renaissance motets and nineteenth- and twentieth-century sacred works, drawn from Ensemble Gombert’s first European tour in 2004. The programme was chosen to complement Hommage à Gombert, then in production, with Gombert, Lassus and Monteverdi.

Sing to the Lord, ye Heavenly Hosts

The Choir of The Scots' Church offers sacred music from sixteenth-century Palestrina to twenty-first-century Australian composer Andrew Batterham, crowned by a rare performance of Widor's Mass for choir, baritone choir and two organs.

Millennium Magic

Live from the Melbourne Concert Hall on St David's Day 2000, the Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir's first solo concert of the new millennium, with Linda O'Brien, Rhys Boak, Delyth Stafford and Lynlee Williams.

The Litanies of St. Francis Xavier

A generous 2-CD set of Jan Dismas Zelenka’s liturgical music from the Schola Cantorum of Melbourne: the Litaniae Xaverianae, five Vespers psalms, the Magnificat in D and the Alma Redemptoris Mater.

Senzenina

The Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir and friends offer an eclectic programme of favourites, African songs and chants, with guest soloists drawn from past ‘Singers of the Year’.

Te Deum

Conductor André de Quadros assembles six highly acclaimed choirs, the New Monash Orchestra, tenor soloist Dwayne Jones and organist Linda Kent for Berlioz’s monumental Te Deum.

Great Southern Lands

The Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir marks a South African concert tour with Welsh hymnody, folk song, spirituals and a Zulu–Xhosa chant under conductor Phillip Smith.

Heritage

The Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir celebrate Victoria’s architectural heritage in song, recorded in the unaltered acoustics of National Trust colonial buildings.

Praise the Lord his Glories Show

Sacred music from the 16th century through Baroque and Romantic repertoire to Afro-American spirituals, sung by one of Melbourne's finest choirs under Douglas Lawrence.

The Welsh in Australia, Vol. 2

Volume two gathers hymns and traditional Welsh songs in commemoration and celebration of St David, uniting two Victorian male voice choirs in concert and community hymn singing.

Carols Psalms and Anthems

Under the direction of Professor Emeritus Peter Godfrey, CBE, the Trinity College Chapel Choir offers a striking programme of rarely heard carols, psalms and anthems spanning several centuries of sacred choral writing.

The Welsh in Australia, Vol. 1

The Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir and Victorian Welsh Singers join forces under Alwyn Humphreys for a St David’s Day celebration of Welsh hymns and traditional songs.

Music from 4 to 40 Parts

Angeli Vocal Ensemble, pianist Michael Kieran Harvey, chamber choir Ensemble Gombert and the Four Seasons String Quartet perform Melbourne composer Vaughan McAlley’s music. The programme explores writing from four parts up to forty, in his distinctive approach to counterpoint.