All in the April Evening
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Product ID: GM2 CL058
By Hugh S. Roberton
Publisher:
Goodmusic
Arranger:
Lane
Series:
Concert Classics
Line Up:
String Orchestra
Duration:
4:00
Level: 3
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Composed in 1911, this piece became widely known and performed throughout the English speaking world in its vocal and choral versions. The composer, Hugh Roberton, was the founder and conductor of the famous Glasgow Orpheus Choir in whose repertoire this song constantly featured. The song is a setting of words by Katharine Tynan. The wonderful melody is here presented in a new arrangement for string orchestra by Philip Lane. A recording of this arrangement is included on a compact disc of various music from Scotland issued on the ASV label.
Instrumentation
Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass)
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Composer
Hugh S. Roberton (1874-1952)
Sir Hugh S. Roberton (23 February 1874 – 7 October 1952) was a Scottish composer and Britain`s leading choral-master.
Roberton was born in Glasgow, where, in 1906, he founded the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. For five years before that it was the Toynbee Musical Association. A perfectionist, he expected the highest standards of performance from its members. Its voice was a choir voice, its individual voices not tolerated. He set new standards in choral technique and interpretation. For almost fifty years until it disbanded in 1951, on the retiral of its founder, the Glasgow Orpheus Choir had no equal in Britain and toured widely enjoying world acclaim. Their repertoire included many Scottish folk songs arranged for choral performance, and Paraphrases, as well as Italian madrigals, English motets and the music of the Russian Orthodox Church. The choir also performed the works of Bach, Handel, Mandelssohn, Cornelius, Brahms and others.
He wrote the choral work All in the April Evening, the popular song Westering Home, and Mhàiri's Wedding.
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