All The Heart of Me
The Choirs, Soloists and Orchestra of The Crane School of Music
The Choral Music of Margaret Ruthven Lang
“… (her music) is so sincere, so true to the underlying thought, that it seems to me to have an unusual chance of interesting attention and stirring emotions increasingly with the years.” —Rupert Hughes in Contemporary American Composers, 1900
The late music of late-Romantic composer Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972) – though quite well known in her time – fell into near-total neglect after she stopped composing in 1919. Following Delos’ earlier surveys of her art songs (
DE 3407, DE 3410) and piano music (DE 3433), we now offer her beautifully crafted and appealing choral music, in the hope of restoring Lang to her rightful place among America’s most remarkable composers.
The program’s five substantial sacred works and nine secular pieces (many unpublished) are performed with skill, sensitivity and commitment by various outstanding vocal, choral and instrumental artists from the Crane School of Music at The State University of New York, Potsdam. urgency.
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Sacred Works
- “Grant, we beseech Thee, merciful Lord” SATB
- “The Heavenly Noel” Mezzo Solo, SSAA, Piano, Rehearsal Copy
- “The Heavenly Noel” Mezzo Solo, SSAA, Piano
- “In Praesepio” SATB
- “In Praesepio” SSAA
- “The Night of the Star” Tenor Solo, SATB
- “Te Deum in Eb Major, op. 34” SATB
Secular Works
- “Alastair MacAlastair” TTBB
- “Boatman’s Hymn” TTBB
- “Bonnie Ran the Burnie Down, op. 25” SATB
- “The Hawthorn Tree” Soprano and Tenor Solo, SATB
- “Here’s A Health to Ane I Lo’e Dear” TTBB
- “Irish Love Song” SSA, Piano
- “Irish Love Song” SSA, Orchestra
- “An Irish Mother’s Lullaby” SSA, Cello and Piano
- “An Irish Mother’s Lullaby” SSA
- “An Irish Mother’s Lullaby” Viloin Obligato
- “The Jumblies” Baritone Solo, TTBB, Two pianos
- “The Lonely Rose” Soprano Solo, SSAA
- “Song of the Three Sisters” SSAA
- “The Wild-brier” SSAA
- “Wind” SSAA, double chorus
Lear Limmericks
- “The Old Lady of France” SSAA
- “The Old Man in a Tree” SSAA
- “The Old Man in a Tree” TTBB
- “The Old Man of Dumbree” SSAA
- “The Old Man with a Beard” SATB
- “The Old Man with a Gong” TTBB
- “The Old Person of Cassel” SATB
- “The Old Person of Skye” SSAA
- “The Person of Filey” SSAA
- “There was an Old Man who said, “Well!” TTBB
- “The Young Lady of Parma” TTBB