Tall Poppies
Disc No: TP 142
Price: Sek. 160 A collection of chamber works, written over a 30 year period by one of Australia's finest composers, Nigel Butterley. Included is the famous short work for recorder and harpsichord "The White-throated Warbler" in its first recording on CD. Veteran tenor Gerald English is also featured in two short song cycles. Butterley is well-known for his choral writing, and this CD includes two works, the early "The True Samaritan" sung by the Contemporary Singers conducted by Antony Walker, and "There came a Wind like a Bugle" sung by the Song Company conducted by Roland Peelman.
Name: There came a
  Wind like a Bugle

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ComposerOpusMusicKeyPerformer
Butterley, Nigel   The White-throated Warbler   Ian Shanahan, recorder
Diana Blom, harpsichord
Butterley, Nigel   Child in Nature   Gerald English, tenor
Nigel Butterley, piano
Butterley, Nigel   Arioso - Comment on a Popular Song   Il Gubbo Ian Munro, piano
Butterley, Nigel   The wind stirs gently   Geoffrey Collins, flute
David Pereira cello
Butterley, Nigel   Frogs   Gerald English, tenor
Ian Munro, piano
Butterley, Nigel   Evanston Song   Geoffrey Collins, flute
David Miller, piano
Butterley, Nigel   The True Samaritan   The Contemporary Singers - Antony Walker
Butterley, Nigel   Of Wood   David Pereira, cello
Butterley, Nigel   Uttering Joyous Leaves   Stephanie McCallum, piano
Butterley, Nigel   There came a Wind like a Bugle   The Song Company - Roland Peelman

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