American Classics

HOW SWEET THE SOUND | LOST IN THE STARS | OUR AMERICAN JOURNEY | WHERE THE SUN WILL NEVER GO DOWN

HOW SWEET THE SOUND

Spirituals and Traditional Music
with Bishop Yvette Flunder

Clip: Keep Your Hand on the Plow, arr. Jennings

All-new arrangements by Music Director Joseph Jennings, along with the extraordinary vocal power of guest artist Bishop Yvette Flunder and Chanticleer's seamless blend of twelve voices, combine to create a passionate, joyous and profound musical journey. Black sacred music is a fountain that never runs dry," comments Anthony Heilbut, author of the book The Gospel Sound, in the CD liner notes, "At once the most mournful and transcendent of musical forms, it is also the one from which Joseph Jennings, a child of the church, derives his greatest inspiration."

Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb, Surely God Is Able, Amazing Grace, Soon One Morning Medley: Soon One Morning/What You Goin' Do When the World's On Fire/You Can't Hide/Run On for a Long Time, Didn't It Rain, Sit Down Servant/Plenty Good Room, (Keep Your Hand on the Plow) Hold On, My Soul Is A Witness, There Is A Balm in Gilead, Po' Pilgrim Medley: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child/Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow/Walk In Jerusalem, Be Still and Know That I'm God

2004 TOTAL TIME: 68:38 DDD CD (HOWC) $15.98

"The amen corner may lose its voice from shouting the praises of How Sweet the Sound"

CHANTICLEER
Matthew Alber, Christopher Fritzsche, Ian Howell, soprano; Jesse Antin, Jay White, Philip Wilder, alto; Kevin Baum, Michael Lichtenauer, Matthew Oltman, tenor; Eric Alatorre, David Alan Marshall, Mark Sullivan, baritone-bass

LOST IN THE STARS

Teldec Classics International

Clip: Lost In The Stars, Anderson/Weill, arr. Purling, DeSilva, Brown & Henderson/Hamshire House Publishers.

A Symphonic pops recording with the Don Haas Trio and the London Studio Orchestra, conducted by Ettore Stratta.

It's De-lovely/All Through the Night Cole Porter, Night and Day Porter, I Can Dream, Can't I? Sammy Fain/Irving Kahal, You and the Night and the Music Howard Dietz/Arthur Schwartz, Afterglow Carroll Coates, So Many Stars Alan & Marilyn Bergman/Sergio Mendes, Lost in the Star Maxwell Anderson/Kurt Weill, In the Still of the Night Porter, In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael, 'Round Midnight Bernie Hanighen/Cootie Williams/Thelonious Monk, In the Wee, Small Hours of the Morning Bob Hilliard/David Mann, Dream Dancing Porter, Blues in the Night Mercer/Harold Arlen

1996 TOTAL TIME: 63:59 DDD $15.98

CHANTICLEER
Kenneth Fitch, Christopher Fritzsche, Corey McKnight*, David Shaler*, Philip Wilder*, countertenors; Kevin Baum*, David Munderloh*, Douglas Wright*, tenors; Eric Alatorre, Frank Albinder, Tim Krol*, Chad Runyon, baritones & basses; Joseph Jennings, music director; Louis Botto, artistic director; Frank Albinder, associate conductor
(* indicates soloists)

OUR AMERICAN JOURNEY

Chanticleer's 25th CD celebrates the music of America, from sacred motets by 17th century Mexican composers to shape-note hymns to newly-commissioned works on American themes. Our American Journey is a showcase of the rich traditions and also of the creative tension between unity and diversity that are inherent American music and in American life.

Clip: Labbra vermiglie et belle, William Hawley

"Chanticleer's pastel timbre, dead-on intonation, and precise articulation are persuasive throughout..."

"Chanticleer's versatility never ceases to amaze me"

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah Traditional Appalachian, Credidi Juan de Lienas, Versa est in luctum Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Jefferson (Glorious things of Thee are Spoken) Traditional, David's Lamentation William Billings, Soar Away A. M. Cagle, Whispers Steven Stucky, Voices of Autumn Jackson Hill, The Un-covered Wagon Brent Michael Davids, "Fuggi, fuggi, dolor" and "Labbra vermiglie e belle" from Tre Rime di Tasso William Hawley, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair Stephen Foster, Camptown Races Stephen Foster, Love Walked In George Gershwin, Willow Weep for Me Ann Ronell, Calling My Children Home Doyle Lawson, Charles Waller and Robert Yates, Wayfarin' Stranger Traditional, I'm a Pilgrim Traditional

2002 TOTAL TIME 77:52 DDD $15.98

CHANTICLEER
Matthew Alber, Christopher Fritzsche, Ian Howell, soprano; Jesse Antin, Jay White, Philip Wilder, alto; Kevin Baum, Michael Lichtenauer, Matthew Oltman, tenor; Eric Alatorre, David Alan Marshall, Mark Sullivan, baritone-bass

WHERE THE SUN WILL NEVER GO DOWN

featuring many arrangements by Music Director Joseph Jennings
Chanticleer Records
Clip: Deep River, arr. Ringwald

This album contains a wide sampling of African-American a cappella sacred music arranged and sung in several styles. Although this music originated out of struggle and suffering, it is not sorrowful music; but rather music of hope. Jennings exploits every harmonic grouping, including a bass sound that is foreboding and sensual.

Old Time Religion , Deep River, Jesus Come By Here, All Night, All Day, We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace, Where the Sun Will Never Go Down, Steal Away, I've Been 'Buked, Lord I Want to be a Christian, Am I a Soldier of the Cross, Twelve Gates to the City

1990 TOTAL TIME: 57:27 DDD $15.98

CHANTICLEER
Joseph Jennings*, Steven Rickards, Randall Wong, Countertenors; Louis Botto, Mark Daniel*, Neal Rogers*, Bruce Sellars*, Tenors; Tom Hart*, Mitchell Sandler, Baritones; Tim Gibler, Paul Guttry, Mark Keller, Basses; Joseph Jennings, Music Director; Louis Botto, Artistic Director
(* indicates soloists)