Carols Old and New
This newly released CD by The Compline Choir has many of your favorites Christmas carols, along with seasonal works from the Renaissance and earlier. You will find the following on this release:
- Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella
- Lullay, My Liking
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
- O Tannenbaum
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- … and 13 other Christmas carols.
Music of Faith and Longing
The choir has recorded a half-length CD comprised of six American folk songs and spirituals in new arrangements for the Compline Choir by former members Richard Proulx, Brian Fairbanks, Jeff Junkinsmith, and Richard Proulx. The songs are:
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- There is a Balm in Gilead
- Lonesome Valley
- In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin'
- Amazing Grace
- Shenandoah
Night Music
Night Music consists entirely of compositions written for the Compline Choir by its director, Peter Hallock, over its history. The CD takes its name from a work written for the choir based on non-sacred texts, and inspired by Bunraku - Japanese puppet theatre. Here the music unfolds in three "dreams", accompanied by percussion, shakuhachi, harp, and narrator. Surrounding this work are nine anthems for various seasons of the liturgical year; many are richly accompanied, such as "The Dawning" and "Jubilemus Omnes", with five 'cellos.
You may order a copy from The Episcopal Book Store, or The Cathedral Shop at St. Mark's.
Feathers of Green Gold: The Office of Compline and Ten Psalms
This compact disc, produced in 1994, contains a complete service of The Office of Compline, as sung by the Compline Choir at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle. The CD also contains psalm settings by Peter Hallock of Psalms 23, 24, 46, 68, 73, 97, 104, 121, 139, and 150. There are copious notes on the Office of Compline by Peter Hallock, and The Psalms by Walter Deller, of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto.
Feathers of Green Gold has been re-issued! To order a copy, follow the links to The Episcopal Book Store or The Cathedral Shop at St. Mark's.
Other Recordings with the Compline Choir:
An Advent Procession, a liturgy for Advent based on the "O Antiphons", with settings by Peter Hallock, sung by the Compline Choir and the St. Mark's Cathedral Choir, under the direction of J. Melvin Butler.
An Annotated Compline, produced by Loft Recordings / Gothic Records, is an edition of an Organ Loft radio program that was aired in January of 1995, and includes excerpts from Feathers of Green Gold, as well as an interview of Peter Hallock by the Organ Loft's host, Roger Sherman.
Recordings of Music by Peter Hallock:
A Brevity, a single track recording of a setting by Peter Hallock of the work "Song" by Thomas Merton. It was recorded from a live broadcast on KING/FM at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle WA, in 1977. Vernon Nicodemus, baritone, Robert Kechley, oboe, Beverly Statter, harp, and The Northwest Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer.
Cathedral Anthems: the Music of Peter R. Hallock, containing many of the large-scale anthems for choir, brass, and organ written by the director of the Compline Choir. Performed by Choral Arts, under the direction of Richard Sparks, its founding conductor.