All in the April Evening
Posted in Classical, Choral on May 29th, 2009 No Comments »
A month late, but still welcome, and forever evocative of my childhood. The Glasgow Orpheus Choir, founded by undertaker Hugh Roberton in 1906, finally folded in the year of my birth. But the sound of it seeped into my childhood, like gravy, in the same way as Kathleen Ferrier, Bing Crosby and Billy Cotton did, forever on the ether that was radio - the ‘wireless’ as we called it then.
I have a 78rpm record of this, but listening to it now is like listening to the sound of a distant choir of angels singing in a thunderstorm sifted through a fish fat fryer.
Here’s a recent recording, made in homage of the original, by the Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conducted by David Temple.
