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| Riverside Years 2 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Frank Swann
Label: Gothic Records
Category: Music
List Price: $54.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 450370
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 1
UPC: 000334913120
EAN: 0000334913120
ASIN: B00007K26K
Release Date: January 7, 2003
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Once In Royal David's City | | • | Up! Good Christian | | • | The Lord At First | | • | The Holly & The Ivy | | • | Unto Us Is Born A Son | | • | Jesus Child | | • | The Hunter | | • | Mary's Lullaby | | • | What Is This Fragrance | | • | Come, Marie, Elisabette | | • | O Come All Ye Faithful | | • | To Bethlehem |
Disc 2
| • | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | | • | Puer Natus | | • | Torches | | • | Hush, My Dear | | • | Lo, The Messiah | | • | Mary Had A Baby | | • | Shepards, Shake Off | | • | Saw You Never | | • | Noel We Sing | | • | O Little Town Of Bethlehem | | • | Star Carol | | • | Love Came Down At Christmas | | • | Joy To The World | | • | All Glory, Laud, And Honor | | • | The Way To Jerusalem | | • | Choral Variations On 'Ah, Holy Jesus' | | • | O Vos Omnes | | • | The Joyful Eastertide | | • | Christ The Lord Is Risen Today | | • | Christ Our Passover |
Disc 3
| • | Praise To The Lord | | • | The Lord's My Shepard | | • | Ye Holy Angels Bright | | • | Fairest Lord Jesus | | • | Praise The Lord! Ye Heavens | | • | Our God, Our Help | | • | God That Madest Earth & Heaven | | • | From All That Dwell | | • | My Song Shall Be Alway | | • | Come, Holy Ghost | | • | There Is A Balm In Gilead | | • | Let Us With A Gladsom Mind | | • | Prologue To The 'Apostles' | | • | Festival Te Deum | | • | Evening Hymn |
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| Customer Reviews:
A good memento of a time and place September 21, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a young singer I participated in most of these recordings, so it's a bit hard to be objective. The most successful segments are those on the "Lessons and Carols" disc, recorded in May of 1981. John Walker's organ accompaniments are subtle and beautifully voiced; as a result the choral singing they accompany is consistent, beautifully blended and in tune. The readings, particularly the reading and prayer from William Sloane Coffin, are wonderful to hear again.
The rest, recorded in 1978 and 1979, are much less successful. There is much oversinging, even screaming, in the louder choral passages, the choral sound in general is "woofy", not very in tune and unblended, in the fashion of much choral singing of the time, and the organ playing of Swann and McDonald as accompaniment is consistently too loud, even ugly in tone. The only articulate and beautiful playing on these earlier recordings is that of the late organist and harpsichordist Jerry Brainard, and he participates in only two selections! These recordings were made with three microphones, a stereo pair at the front and one at the back for ambience, in the dry acoustic Riverside had at the time (it has since been "corrected" to a soupy overreverberance), so microphoning was not the problem. This is a good represntation of the way this sounded at the time, according to listeners in the congregation.
Also, as was true of the original LP releases, the stereo image on the earlier recordings is reversed: left is right and right is left. I'm surprised that this error was not caught and corrected in the digital transfer. Much of the analog tape noise has been eliminated, but there is still quite a bit of audio distortion in the louder portions. On my copy, the CD's had some trackinig difficulties, even on a new player.
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