- Chanticleer( Chanticleer (ensemble) )【 3 albums 33 lyrics 】
- Based in San Francisco, California, Chanticleer /'ʃæntɪkliɹ/ is a full-time male classical vocal ensemble in the United States. Over the last three decades, it has developed a major reputation for its interpretations of Renaissance music, but it also performs a wide repertoire of jazz, gospel, and other venturesome new music and is widely known as an 'Orchestra of Voices'. It was named for the 'clear singing rooster' in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
History
Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor Louis Botto, who sang with the group until 1989, and served as Artistic Director until his death from AIDS in 1997. As a graduate student of musicology, Botto found that much of the medieval and Renaissance music he was studying was not being performed, and, because of this, he formed the group to perform this music with an all-male ensemble, as it was traditionally sung during the Renaissance.
Originally, the group contained ten singers, but its size has varied from eight to twelve. Currently, Chanticleer comprises twelve men, including two basses, one baritone, three tenors, and six countertenors (three altos and three sopranos).
The original members included Jim Armington (tenor), Ted Bakkila (baritone), Rob Bell (countertenor), Louis Botto (who sang alto as well as tenor), Sanford Dole (tenor), Kevin Freeman (bass), Tom Hart (baritone), Jonathan Klein (baritone), Neal Rogers (tenor), Marc Smith (bass), Randall Wong (countertenor), and Doug Wyatt (bass). However, only ten of the singers were available to go on tour.
When the ensemble first became full-time in 1991, its members included Eric Alatorre (bass, and currently the longest standing member), Frank Albinder (baritone), Kevin Baum (tenor), Mark Daniel (tenor), Kenneth Fitch (countertenor), Jonathan Goodman (tenor), Tim Gibler (bass), Joseph Jennings (countertenor and Music Director), Chad Runyon (baritone), Foster Sommerlad (countertenor), Matthew Thompson (tenor), and Philip Wilder (countertenor).
Discography
1987 - Byrd: Music for a Hidden Chapel
1988 - The Anniversary Album, 1978-1988
1990 - Our Heart's Joy: A Chanticleer Christmas (Remastered in 2004)
1991 - Psallite! A Renaissance Christmas
1992 - Josquin: Missa Mater Patris; Agricola: Magnificat and motets
1993 - Byrd: Missa In Tempore Paschali
1993 - Cristóbal de Morales: Missa Mille Regretz and Motets
1993 - Mysteria: Gregorian Chants
1994 - Where the Sun Will Never Go Down
1994 - I Have Had Singing: A Chanticleer Portrait
1994 - Mexican Baroque
1994 - Out of This World
1995 - Sing We Christmas
1996 - Lost in the Stars
1998 - Wondrous Love: A World Folk Song Collection
1997 - Reflections
1998 - Jerusalem: Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe, 1764
1999 - Colors of Love
2000 - Magnificat
2001 - Christmas with Chanticleer
2002 - John Tavener: Lamentations and Praises
2002 - Our American Journey
2003 - Evening Prayer: Purcell Anthems and Sacred Songs
2003 - A Portrait
2004 - How Sweet the Sound: Spirituals and Traditional Gospel Music
2005 - Sound in Spirit
2006 - Palestrina: Missa pro defunctis; Motets
2007 - And on Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass
2007 - Let it Snow
2008 - Mission Road
2010 - A Chanticleer Christmas
2011 - Our Favorite Carols
2011 - Between Two Wars
2011 - Chanticleer Takes You Out of this World!
2011 - For Thy Soul's Salvation
2011 - Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur: Annunciation
2011 - Ludus Paschalis: Resurrection Play of Tours
2011 - My Chanticleer: A Collection for Chanticleer
2011 - The Boy Whose Father was God
2011 - With a Poet's Eye
2012 - Love Story
2012 - By Request
2013 - The Siren's Call
2013 - Someone New
2014 - She Said/He Said
In May 2007, Chanticleer released 'And On Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass' (Warner Classics) a new mass written by five contemporary composers. Israeli-born composer Shulamit Ran wrote the Credo to the Hebrew text 'Ani Ma'amin'; US composer Douglas Cuomo contributed the Kyrie; Turkish-American composer Kamran Ince composed the Gloria section to a sufi text; English composer Ivan Moody composed the Sanctus; and Irish composer Michael McGlynn (director of Anúna) composed the Agnus Dei. The Mass was premiered in performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and was followed by six performances throughout the San Francisco Bay area.
On October 16, 2007, Chanticleer released 'Let it Snow,' the group's 29th recording. A portion of the album is accompanied by orchestra and/or big band; as such, the album brings a new sound to Chanticleer's almost exclusively a cappella repertoire. - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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Someone New
2014
1.Mirrorball (Provided)
2.WaitFantasy (Provided)
3.Yesterdays (Provided)
4.The ChickenGone at Last (Provided)
5.Ease on Down the Road (Provided)
6.Strange Meadow Lark (Provided)
7.Temptation (Provided)8.Ring of Fire (Provided)
9.Somebody to Love (Provided)
10.Washing of the Water
11.Chega de Saudade (No More Blues) (Provided)
12.I Feel Better (Provided)
13.Hamburg Song (Provided) -
Our Favorite Carols
2011
1.A Babe Is Born In Bethlehem (Provided)
2.God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Rejoice And Be Merry (Provided)
3.Good King Wenceslas (Provided)
4.Gabriel's Message (Provided)
5.Star Of Wonder - We Three Kings Of Orient Are - No Small Wonder (Provided)
6.I Saw Three Ships (Provided)
7.A Virgin Unspotted
8.Huron Carol
9.A Christmas Carol (Provided)10.I Wonder As I Wander (Provided)
11.See, Amid The Winter's Snow
12.Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (Provided)
13.The Town Lay Hushed (Provided)
14.This Have I Done For My True Love (Provided)
15.The Holly And The Ivy (Provided)
16.In The Bleak Midwinter (Provided)
17.Silent Night (Provided) -
Miscellaneous
1.Shenandoah
2.Somebody to Love (arr. V. Peterson)3.Loch Lomond - Scotland
【Correction of errors in the album information】