Bob Chilcott: All Good Things Alexander Hawkins, Commotio, Matthew Berry & Bob Chilcott

• Bob Chilcott (1955- ):
• 1 Ophelia, Caliban & Miranda: I. River Bride (Ophelia) 03:37
• 2 Ophelia, Caliban & Miranda: II. Ariel Taught Me How to Play (Caliban) 06:53
• 3 Ophelia, Caliban & Miranda: III. All Good Things Come to an End (Miranda) 02:20
• 4 Marriage to My Lady Poverty 04:44
• 5 Jazz Folk Songs for Choirs: No. 5, Scarborough Fair 02:04
• 6 The Real of Heart 03:55
• 7 Jazz Songs of Innocence: I. Piping Down the Valleys Wild 01:44
• 8 Jazz Songs of Innocence: II. The Lamb 02:38
• 9 Jazz Songs of Innocence: III. The Little Boy Lost - The Little Boy Found 04:49
• 10 Jazz Songs of Innocence: IV. The Echoing Green 02:53
• 11 Jazz Songs of Innocence: V. The Divine Image 05:25
• 12 Thou, My Love, Art Fair 04:12
• 13 Jazz Folk Songs for Choirs: No. 7, The House of the Rising Sun 04:27
• 14 Weather Report 04:47
• 15 Nidaros Jazz Mass: Kyrie 03:22
• 16 Nidaros Jazz Mass: Gloria 03:54
• 17 Nidaros Jazz Mass: Sanctus 02:49
• 18 Nidaros Jazz Mass: Benedictus 01:35
• 19 Nidaros Jazz Mass: Agnus Dei 05:32
• Total Runtime 01:11:40

Info for Bob Chilcott: All Good Things

Bob Chilcott is one of Britain’s most popular and respected composers and his choral music is performed worldwide. He has always embraced a broad stylistic palette and his writing for voice combined with jazz instrumentation gives these works a sense of vitality and energy. Performed by leading jazz soloists and Commotio, the distinguished promoters of contemporary repertoire, this sequence of brilliant villanelles, folk song arrangements and witty settings reveals once again the breadth of Chilcott’s musical imagination. Chilcott has enjoyed a lifelong association with choral music, as a composer, conductor, and singer. He was a chorister and choral scholar in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge and for twelve years was a member of the vocal group The King’s Singers. In 1997 he became a full time composer. A Little Jazz Mass, Requiem, and St. John Passion are among a number of works from his prolific output which are performed worldwide. He has written large-scale works, including The Angry Planet, community-based projects, pieces for children, and a significant amount of music for the church. In 2017 Chilcott was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal School of Church Music.

Bob Chilcott, piano
Alexander Hawkins, piano
Sue Greenway, saxophone
Raphael Mizraki, double bass
Jon Scott, drums
Commotio
Matthew Berry, conductor

Bob Chilcott
is one of the most active composers and choral conductors in Britain today.

He has been involved in choral music most of his life - he was a chorister in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and sang the Pie Jesu on the renowned 1967 King's recording of Fauré's Requiem, conducted by Sir David Willcocks. He returned to King's as a Choral Scholar, and between 1985 and 1997 was a member of the British vocal group The King's Singers. He has been a full time composer since 1997.

Over the last eight years, Bob has poured his energy into choral composition, conducting, and promoting choral singing throughout the world. He is well-known for his compositions for children's choir, including his piece Can you hear me? which he has conducted in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, and the Czech Republic. He is also associated with the New Orleans Children's Chorus and the Crescent City Festival in New Orleans, for whom he has written five pieces including Jazz Mass, Happy Land and Be Simple Little Children. In 2005 the Cotswold Children's Choir, conducted by Hilary Tadman-Robins, and accompanied by Sir Philip Ledger released Spells, an album of some his more well-known children's choir music.

He is equally active as a composer of mixed-voice music. He has been the commissioned composer for the last three festivals for the Alliance for Arts and Understanding, promoting singing for boys' and men's voices, and pieces for this festival include In the heart of the world and The Dove and the Olive Leaf. Of his larger work, The Making of the Drum, a cantata for choir and percussion, has been extensively performed by choirs including The BBC Singers, the Tower New Zealand Youth Choir, the Chamber Choir of Europe and the Taipei Chamber Singers. In 1999 the Finnish Choir Grex Musicus conducted by Marjukka Riihimaki released The Making of the Drum, an album of music for mixed choir by Bob. His two larger sacred works, Jubilate and Canticles of Light have also been performed extensively. In November 2005 Bob conducts Jubilate in New York's Carnegie Hall.

He has also written two contrasting works for professional and amateur perfomers to perform together, commissioned by Making Music. The first, A Sporting Chance, was written for Onyx Brass and primary school choirs, and the second, Tandem, a work for two orchestras was commissioned in conjunction with BBC Radio Three.

As a conductor Bob has worked extensively with choirs and festivals throughout the world. For seven years he was conductor of the Chorus at the Royal College of Music in London. He is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers, with whom he works regularly in studio recordings and concerts, and he has also guest conducted the RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin, and the Elmer Iseler Singers in Toronto. He has twice been featured conductor for the youth project at Festival 500 in Newfoundland, and has conducted at festivals throughout Canada and the United States, including The World of Children's Choirs in Vancouver, the Niagara and Toronto International Choral Festivals, and in 2003 was the first non-American conductor to conduct a National Honor Choir for the American Choral Directors Association, and this he did in New York City. He has been a featured conductor for Europa Cantat in Sweden, Germany and Belgium, and in 2004 he conducted for the first time at the renowned Dartington International Music Festival in Britain. He has also been a featured conductor for the Japan Choral Association, and in 2004 was the first foreign conductor to conduct at the Song Festival in Tallinn, Estonia.

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