Chor Leoni Men's Choir
Track Listings
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1. Duo Seraphim
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2. Beata Viscera
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3. Cantique de Jean Racine
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4. Sanctus & Bendictus from Messe a trois voix
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5. Agnus Dei from Messe a trois voix
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6. Ubi Caritas
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7. Magnificat
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8. Repleti Sunt Omnes
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9. Spaseniye sodelal
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10. Die Nacht D983 c
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11. Standchen
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12. Kung Liljekonvalje
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13. Traumlicht from Drei Mannerchore
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14. How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps
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Editorial Reviews
Album Description
"Chor Leoni" is the latest release by Skylark Music of Canada's premiere men's choir. From the gentleness of medieval plain chant and Renaissance counterpoint to the sumptuous, rich beauty of Fauré and Russian Orthodox Church music, the repertoire on this disc is perfect for curling up with and listening to by a warm fire. Chor Leoni's self-titled disc is filled with the sonorous, luscious music that lends itself to reflection and meditation. Brett Polegato – one of the world's leading young baritones and honorary patron of Chor Leoni – makes a guest appearance with the choir, singing the beautiful solo line of Schubert's Ständchen.
The warmth of both the repertoire and the performances is sure to make "Chor Leoni" another best seller from the choir who's "Canadian Safari" continues to be one of Canada's top-selling classical music CDs.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS -
Chor Leoni Men's Choir
Quality a cappella singing, eclectic repertoire, imaginative programming, and a willingness to "try anything once" have characterised Chor Leoni's meteoric rise to the upper echelons of the Canadian choral world. Chor (Greek for choir) Leoni (Italian for lions) was formed in 1992 by Diane Loomer to provide an opportunity for skilled male singers to gather and sing challenging repertoire. Based in Vancouver, the choir has commissioned, performed and recorded works by Canadian composers, consistently won prizes in the CBC national choral competition, toured across the country, and recorded many national CBC broadcasts.
Diane Loomer, C.M.
Diane Loomer is internationally recognised as one of Canada's leading conductors and musicians. In addition to founding and directing Chor Leoni Men's Choir, she is co-founder and co-director of Elektra Women's Choir, and has taught on the music faculty at the University of British Columbia for the past six years. In recognition of her achievements in and service to music and humanity throughout Canada, Diane received the country's highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada.
Chor Leoni Men's Choir, Music, Perotin, Gabriel Faure, Andre Caplet, Ramona Luengen, Healey Willan, Jacob Handl, Pavel Chesnokov, Franz Schubert, David Wikander, Rchard Strauss, Michael Head Tomas Luis de Vittoria, C.M. Diane Loomer, Chor Leoni Men's Choir, Ray Horst , Chris Beall , Shad Turner , Bruce Hoffman , Alicia Au , Ken Cormier , Stephen Smith, Brett Polegato
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- Fabulous Christmas CD - Yuletide Fires
- Yuletide Fires
- The best Christmas CD I've ever heard.
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Yuletide Fires
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ASIN: B00012YZ9Y
Release Date: 2003-11-05 |
Tracks:
- Hodie Christus Natus Est - Gregorian chant
- God Rest You Merry - English carol
- Huron Carol - Canadian carol
- Letabundus - Sarum chant
- As Joseph Was A-Walking - Appalachian carol
- Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen - Traditional/Michael Praetorius
- Le sommeil de lenfant Js - Cantique traditionnel
- Veni, Veni Emanuel - Gregorian chant
- Yuletide Fires - Diane Loomer
- Nouvelle agrle! - Cantique traditionnel
- The Lord at First - English carol
- Lux Aeterna - Gregorian chant
- Quelle est cette odeur agrle - Cantique traditionnel
- Veni Redemptor Gencium - Sarum chant
- Dostoyno Yest - Nikolai Golovanov
- Svete Tihiy - Aleksandr Nikolsky
- Alma Redemptoris Mater - Gregorian chant
- Stille Nacht - Franz Gruber
- Drei Ke - Peter Cornelius
- Rise Up Shepherd - American traditional
- Christmas Angel - Corlynn Hanney
- Still, still, still - Austrian carol
- Hodie Christus Natus Est
Album Description
Contemporary Canadian carols, English luck-visit songs, Gregorian chant, cantiques traditionnels, German lullabies, sombre Russian motets. This contrasting array is a small sample of the vast spectrum of music sung throughout the Christian world to celebrate Christmas (Noël, Navidad, Jul, Weihnacht). Chor Leoni and their internationally known conductor, Diane Loomer, have searched the choral world for seasonal pieces for men's voices, some written especially for "the lions," and tried to capture the style of these contrasting works from the corners of Christianity. We hope you will forgive us if we have added a bit of "Chor Leoni" flavour to the recipe. You may not find all of your favourite carols, but we hope this recording brings you a wider appreciation of the way in which this special day is celebrated by Christians and their choirs throughout our shrinking globe.
Customer Reviews:
Fabulous Christmas CD - Yuletide Fires.......2004-01-12
Yuletide Fires brought the true meaning of Christmas to my home. The finest men's choir singing at the highest performance level. Highly recommended! Beautiful!
Yuletide Fires.......2003-12-04
BUY IT! It is wonderful. The best Christmas gift for someone who loves choral music. You have to sit in the dark and close your eyes to really appreciate how the men's voices blend together. Their ennunciation, phrasing and breath control is incredible and the few instruments that accompany these carols are as simple, gentle and calming as the beautiful singing
The best Christmas CD I've ever heard........2003-12-04
This gentle, relaxing collection of familiar and not-so-familiar Christmas music from around the world is simply beautiful. Beautifully sung and recorded, there is such amazing variety and depth. Diane Loomer, Chor Leoni and soloists have really done themselves proud. This production is destined to become an instant classic. So, if your idea of Christmas music is children's choirs belting out Jingle Bells, try this masterpiece. You'll listen to it again and again.
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Goin' Home
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ASIN: B000062SSF
Release Date: 2001-11-06 |
Tracks:
- Bear Festival
- Pirika, Pirika
- Whale Festival
- Fengyang Ge Abhui folk song arr. Chen Yi
- Minoi, Minoi Samoan folk song arr. Christopher Marshall
- Di duoddar luohti Lapp folk song music: Seppo Paakunainen
- The lion sleeps tonight (Wimoweh) Zulu chant arr. Ron Smail
- Jing-ga-lye-ah music: Bruce Sled
- Gaudeamus igitur traditional German arr. Michael Batholomew
- Drink to me only with thine eyes English folk song
- Dn Irish folk song arr: Michael McGlynn
- Kolm mul oli sEstonian folk song music: Veljo Tormis
- Suo GWelsh folk song arr. Lawrence Wilford
- Bright Morning Star Appalachian folk song arr. Fred Squatrito
- Shenandoah American folk song arr. James Erb
- Goin' Home music: Antonin Dvořarr. Diane Loomer
- Loch Lomond Scottish folk song arr. Jonathan Quick
- Christmas Angel music & lyrics: Corlynn Hanney
Album Description
The long-awaited follow up to Chor Leoni's best selling Canadian Safari.
When Skylark Music released Chor Leoni's Canadian Safari, a collection of Canadian folk song, that disc quickly became a nation-wide best seller. Chor Leoni's latest recording, Goin' Home, is a world folk song collection that become another of Canada's most popular discs within months of release.
Imaginative and delightful, Goin' Home features Canada's premiere men's choir in a programme that takes the listener around the world. From Japan to Africa, from Estonia to the Americas and the British Isles, Diane Loomer and her pride of Lions have brought together favourite folk songs from many countries. With the idea of remembering homelands, this collection will bring a bittersweet tightness in the throat and tears to the eye.
Customer Reviews:
Not one of their best.......2007-02-21
I was disappointed when I listened to this album; it is not one of their best.
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- Great recording of great performances of great arrangements
- Canadian Safari
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Canadian Safari / Chor Leoni Men's Choir, Diane Loomer (Director)
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ASIN: B00000K2WI
Release Date: 1998-06-01 |
Tracks:
- Fogarty's Cove
- The Water is Wide
- Vive l'Amour
- Away from the Roll of the Sea
- Ave Maris Stella
- Chi Mi Na Mor Bheanna
- Song for the Mira
- She's Like the Swallow
- Red River Valley
- The Carrion Crow
- Potlatch Fair
- Northwest Passage
- Four Strong Winds
- Dondaine La Ridaine
- Wood River
- Oh Mary, Come Home
- Grand Hotel
- Drunken Sailor
- Barrett's Privateers
- Make and Break Harbour
Album Description
Well known for its imaginative programming, Vancouver based Chor Leoni Men's Choir has done it again with a new recording entitled Canadian Safari. Director Diane Loomer leads her “choir of lions” on a musical ride across the Canadian landscape in these innovative arrangements of some of Canada's best loved folk music. Virtually every style of traditional music is represented here: Stan Rogers' Fogarty's Cove, Barrett's Privateers, Northwest Passage and Make and Break Harbour ; Dondaine la Ridaine from Quebec; Connie Kaldor's Wood River and selections of the best mariner's songs from both coasts.
Chor Leoni's entertaining delivery and adventurous approach to choral music has made it one of Canada's most recognized vocal ensembles. The choir has commissioned, performed and recorded numerous works by Canadian composers and consistently won prizes in the CBC national choral competitions. It has performed with the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Vancouver New Music Society, and its Remembrance Day and Summer Solstice concerts are highlights of the Vancouver choral calendar.
Customer Reviews:
Great recording of great performances of great arrangements.......2004-10-31
The Chor (Greek for Choir) Leoni (Italian for Lion) have voices and arrangements that are not superficial. While the soloists are not Pavarotti, they are also not Michael Bolton or Justin Timberlake, and when the entire chorus comes in with harmonies as hearty and robust as prime rib, yet as feathery fine as angels wings well.... the effect is musical magic.
I'm interested in all types of music, but there's a special place in my heart for talented musicians who commit themselves to mastery of musical artforms that they KNOW are not going to get them a triple-platinum CD. A capella men's chorus's are a special breed - dating back before sea chanty's all the way to Gregorian chants.
The music here is as varied as music sung by about 25 men without instrumental accompaniment could be. Sometimes it soars. Sometimes it is robust and up-tempo. The old ballads "The Water is Wide" and "Red River Valley" sound like a heavenly host. Robert Shaw's arrangement of "Vive L'Amour" sounds like the musical equivalent of Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day speech from "Henvy V": full of life and shared accomplishment.
While I don't expect to see Chor Leoni on "The Tonight Show", the listening pleasure I get from this CD tops that of any 10 "Special Musical Guests" on "Tonight" or "Saturday Night Live".
Admittedly, this is music for those with a taste for it - but I get the same kind of thrill hearing a great Mariachi band, or Ray Charles or a great Bluegrass Band like Alison Krauss and Union Station. This is music that is as far removed from the lip-synced techno-pop of today as it can be.
Enjoy.
Canadian Safari.......2002-02-24
Beautiful choral arrangements of songs displaying the rich cultural diversity of music from across Canada. A must for all lovers of choral music. TWO THUMBS UP.
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Canadian Safari 2
Manufacturer: Cypress Choral Recordings
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ASIN: B00076T3OQ
Release Date: 2004-11-04 |
Tracks:
- Royal Hudson
- Rise Again
- The Skye Boat Song
- The Old "Mayflower"
- Watching the Apples Grow
- Feller From Fortune
- Dondaine la ridaine
- Indian Reels
- Trinque L'amourette
- In the early Morning Rain
- The Maple Leaf Forever
- Ammazing Grace
- All the Diamonds
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- Heather Bonn/Island Ferry
- The Black Fly Song
- April in Whitehorse
- The Mary Ellen Carter
- Blow the Wind Southerly
- Springtime In Alberta
- Frobisher Bay
- The Field Behind the Plow
- Kettle Valley Railroad
- Williams Lake Stampede
- Canadian Pacific
Album Description
Canadian Safari 2 is a two disk set full of folk music from Canada that reflects Canadian culture with insight and humour. The songs are great music, fun to sing and hear, and are quintessentially Canadian. This music reflects common events in the course of our lives - often with an ironinc poke at the establishment. Sung by Canada's internationally renown Chor Leoni Men's Choir, Canadian Safari 2 presents a plethora of audience favorites.
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Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00005AFIS
Release Date: 2000-12-05 |
Tracks:
- Duo Seraphim
- Beata Viscera
- Cantique de Jean Racine
- Sanctus & Bendictus from Messe a trois voix
- Agnus Dei from Messe a trois voix
- Ubi Caritas
- Magnificat
- Repleti Sunt Omnes
- Spaseniye sodelal
- Die Nacht D983 c
- Standchen
- Kung Liljekonvalje
- Traumlicht from Drei Mannerchore
- How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps
Album Description
"Chor Leoni" is the latest release by Skylark Music of Canada's premiere men's choir. From the gentleness of medieval plain chant and Renaissance counterpoint to the sumptuous, rich beauty of Fauré and Russian Orthodox Church music, the repertoire on this disc is perfect for curling up with and listening to by a warm fire.
Chor Leoni's self-titled disc is filled with the sonorous, luscious music that lends itself to reflection and meditation. Brett Polegato - one of the world's leading young baritones and honorary patron of Chor Leoni - makes a guest appearance with the choir, singing the beautiful solo line of Schubert's Ständchen.
The warmth of both the repertoire and the performances is sure to make "Chor Leoni" another best seller from the choir who's "Canadian Safari" continues to be one of Canada's top-selling classical music CDs.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS -
Chor Leoni Men's Choir
Quality a cappella singing, eclectic repertoire, imaginative programming, and a willingness to "try anything once" have characterised Chor Leoni's meteoric rise to the upper echelons of the Canadian choral world. Chor (Greek for choir) Leoni (Italian for lions) was formed in 1992 by Diane Loomer to provide an opportunity for skilled male singers to gather and sing challenging repertoire. Based in Vancouver, the choir has commissioned, performed and recorded works by Canadian composers, consistently won prizes in the CBC national choral competition, toured across the country, and recorded many national CBC broadcasts.
Diane Loomer, C.M.
Diane Loomer is internationally recognised as one of Canada's leading conductors and musicians. In addition to founding and directing Chor Leoni Men's Choir, she is co-founder and co-director of Elektra Women's Choir, and has taught on the music faculty at the University of British Columbia for the past six years. In recognition of her achievements in and service to music and humanity throughout Canada, Diane received the country's highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada.
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