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A Time to Dance
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Orchestral dance classics by Bach, Copland and Grainger plus spiritual songs from around the world
Nigel Swinford writes: “The music of Bach takes up half of this CD. It has been said that his music is not just Baroque, it is everything: classical, romantic and modern. It is academic and it is also sensual. But for me, it is the quality of dance which is the most wondrous. Schumann coined the phrase ‘heavenly length’ when describing Bach's work. It is simply that you want the dance, be it a gigue, a bourrée or a badinerie, or even the bouncing chorale accompaniment with which this CD closes, to go on forever. Somehow, ‘old Bach’ as he was famously once called, seemed to be in touch with the Lord of the Dance – that rhythm, that joy, that fellowship which never ends.
  1. Suite No. 3 in D Major (BWV 1068)
    J.S. Bach
    - Ouverture
    - Air
    - Gavottes1 & 2
    - Bourrée
    - Gigue
  2. On Eagle’s Wings
    Michael Joncas – arranged Swinford
    (© OCP publications, Oregon)
    Soloists – Catherine Swinford-White,
    Amy Monkhouse, Matthew Baynham
  3. Behold the Lamb of God
    from Messiah, G.F. Handel
  4. Appalachian Spring (Shaker melody)
    Aaron Copland
    (© Aaron Copland)
  5. O Taste and See
    R. Vaughan Williams
    (© Oxford University Press 1953)
    Soloist – Catherine Swinford-White
  6. Glorious in Majesty
    Shibbolet Basadeh – Traditional Jewish melody,
    arranged Jeff Cothran
    (© GIA publications, Inc 1973)
  7. Badinerie
    from Suite No 2 in B. Minor (BWV 1067)
    J.S.Bach
    Flute – Nicola Gerrard
  8. Balm in Gilead
    Traditional, arranged Swinford
  9. Cossack – Psalm 89
    Traditional, arranged Swinford
  10. Shepherd’s Hey
    from British Folk Music settings – No. 3
    Percy Grainger
    (© Schott and Co, London, 1911)
  11. Bread for the World
    Bernadette Farrell
    (© OCP publications, Oregon)
  12. Chorale from Cantata,
    ‘Ihr Menschen rühmet Gottes liebe’ (BWV 167)
    J.S.Bach
 
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