available recordings


The Promise of Living (2005)

The Promise of Living

$15.00 USD
+ $3.00 S&H

The St. John's Boys' Choir
Br. Paul Richards, artistic director
Guest artist: Fr. Robert Koopman, organ
Recorded in St. John's Abbey Church, live concerts from 2001-5

Zion’s Walls (Aaron Copland)
Adieamus (Karl Jenkins) [MP3]
Ave Maria (Chant)
Dirait-on (Morten Lauridsen) [MP3]
Salve Regina (Chant)
Exsultate justi in Domino (Brant Adams)
Ave Maria (Franz Biebl)
Prayer of the Children (Kurt Bestor)
Ave Maria (Zoltán Kodály)
Tota pulchra es (Theodore Presser Company)
Yo Le Canto Todo El Dia (David L. Brunner) [MP3]
Nigra Sum (Pablo Casals)
Dance, Boatman, Dance (arr. Robert De Cormier)
Sing Creations Music On (Stephen Paulus)
Bright is the Ring of Words (Douglas E. Wagner)
The Promise of Living (Aaron Copland) [MP3]

 

clear voices (2000)

Clear Voices

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The St. John's Boys' Choir
Br. Paul Richards, artistic director
Recorded in St. John's Abbey Church and the Great Hall at St. John's University, 1999

A Festive Call to Praise (Joseph M. Martin) [MP3]
Kyrie and Gloria (Michael Haydn)
Hodie (Orlando Di Lasso)
My Master Hath a Garden (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
For Unto Us a Child is Born (George Friedrich Handel) [MP3]
Gaudete (Brian Kay)
The Nightingale (William Brade)
Allez Souspirs (Claudin)
Hollis Berrie (English Ballad)
Elijah Rock (arr. Jester Hairston)
Hush Somebody's Callin' My Name (arr. Brazeal W. Dennard)
Great Gettin' Up Mornin' (arr. by Mary Goetze)
She Shall Have Music (Nick Page)
O, Colored Earth (Steven Heitzeg)
The Lord Bless You and Keep You (John Rutter) [MP3]

 

seasons (1995)

Seasons

$15.00 USD
+ $3.00 S&H

The St. John's Boys' Choir
Br. Paul Richards, artistic director
Guest artists: Carolyn Finley, soprano; George Mauer, keyboard; Matthew Schwinghammer, organ; SJBC Alumni; St. John's Abbey Schola
Recorded in St. John's Abbey Church and the Great Hall at St. John's University, 1996

This recording is loosely organized as a tour through the seasons of the year including some of the favorite sacred and secular selections of the choir during its first 15 seasons. The recording begins in the summer and ordinary time of the church year and moves through fall, winter/Christmas, lent, Spring/Easter.

The Father's Love (Simon Lole)
Now is the Cool of the Day (Jean Ritchie)
Let the River Run (Carly Simon)
Hotaru Koi (Ro Ogura/David Larson)
The Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key, arr. Thomas Bromen)
For the Beauty of the Earth (John Rutter) [MP3]
Aftermath (Shirley Whitecotton)
Simple Gifts (arr. Aaron Copland) [MP3]
Three Renaissance Dances (Michael Praetorius)
The King of Denmark's Galliard (John Dowland)
Two Bransle (Claude Gervaise)
Canzon "La Galluppa" (Andriano Banchieri)
This Christmastide (Donald Fraser) [MP3]
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (Elizabeth Poston)
Nouvelles Agreables (French Carol arr. Robert Sieving)
The Rose (Amanda McBroom arr. Julie Knowles)
I'm Goin' up a Yonder (Walter Hawkins)
Introit Missa pro defunctis (chant) [MP3]
Pange Lingua (chant)
Victimae paschali laudes (chant)
Siyahamba (Traditional African)
River in Judea (Jack Feldman) [MP3]