Choral Music
Includes Ronald Corp:
‘Weep You No More, Sad Fountains’ (from Cornucopia)
with Marshall McGuire, harp
Gondwana Voices
Lynn Williams, conductor
Mark O’Leary, conductor
ABC Classics 472 822-2
MAGNIFICAT
Includes Ronald Corp:
May the Lord Bless You and Keep You
The Nebraska Children’s Chorus
Z. Randall Stroope, conductor
PRAISE ON HIGH
Includes Ronald Corp: A Cradle Song (aka Blake’s Cradle Song)
And music by Boyce, Elgar, Walford Davies, George Dyson, Michael Rose, Edward Bairstow, Gerald Henrie, Derek Holman, Barry Rose, Malcolm Archer, Mark Blatchly, Stephen Oliver, Anne-Marie Boylan, Leonard Blake, Charles Wood and William Harris
The Armagh Girl Singers
The Boys of St.George’s Parish Church Choir, Belfast
Aubrey McClintock, director, Nigel McClintock, organ
Total duration: 63′ 17″ LAMM 117D
Listen to A Cradle Song or buy the sheet music
RONALD CORP
Dhammapada (for a choir of eight soloists and pre-recorded temple bells)
Apsara – Ronald Corp, director
STONE RECORDS 5060192780055
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The score of Dhammapada is available to buy.
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Watch video of Dhammapada recording session
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‘Ronald Corp is Britain’s most prolific choral conductor-composer, and with this work he breaks fascinating new ground. The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha transmitted orally before being written down 2,000 years ago. Set for small choir, it becomes a beguiling work, full of scrunchy dissonances but graceful to the ear.’
Michael Church, Independent, January 29th, 2011 – ‘Album of the Week’
All the works on this disc are available as sheet music, whether published by this website or external publishers or being available from the office. Please click on individual titles for
FOREVER CHILD AND OTHER CHORAL MUSIC
by Ronald Corp
Forever Child
Verbum Patris
Give to my eyes, Lord
‘May the Lord Bless You and Keep You’ (from Adonai Echad)
Dover Beach
‘Weep You no more, Sad Fountains’ (from Cornucopia)
Two Partsongs (‘Heraclitus’ and ‘I Strove with None’)
Missa San Marco
Four Elizabethan Lyrics
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun
Lute-Book Lullaby (‘Sweet was the Song’)
Requiem (R. L. Stephenson)
Voces Cantabiles
Ronald Corp, conductor
Total duration: 68′ 32″
DUTTON EPOCH CDLX 7171
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‘Ronald Corp has established himself as a force to be reckoned with on the British music scene. He’s also an adept composer, as this handsome anthology of his work makes clear.’
Watch video of ‘God Be in My Head’ (Forever Child)
PIGS COULD FLY
Ronald Corp:
Give to my Eyes, Lord
Five Flower Songs
Spring (When Daisies pied)
‘At Day-Close in November’
(from Hardy Songs)
And songs by Britten, Bliss, Maw, Skempton, Richard Rodney Bennett, Maxwell Davies, Vaughan Williams, Woolrich, Rutter, Tavener, Chilcott, Tansy Davies and Philip Godfrey
The New London Children’s Choir
Ronald Corp, conductor
Alexander Wells, piano
Total duration: 66′ 07″
NAXOS 8.572113
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‘Corp’s own contributions are all gratefully conceived for children’s chorus and are very enjoyable. They are all written in a simple and easy-going language which is pleasant on the ear and, no doubt, very enjoyable to sing… Very good recording and notes.’
Bob Briggs, MusicWeb International
All the Ronald Corp pieces on this disc are available as sheet music.
Five Flower Songs can be bought directly from this website.
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Listen to an excerpt from Spring
Listen to an excerpt from Five Flower Songs
RONALD CORP
and other choral a cappella works:
Three Medieval Carols – Myn Lyking, The Virgin’s Cradle Hymn, Quem Pastores
Ave Maria Ave verum plus five anthems with organ:
The Pilgrim
Psalm 150
The Bells of Paradise
The Revival (The Lilies of His Love)
We Will Remember Them
Apsara choir
Edward Batting, organ
Ronald Corp, conductor
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RONALD CORP
Mark Stone, baritone
The London Chorus (with members of the Highgate Choral Society)
New London Children’s Choir
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Ronald Corp, conductor
MICHAEL HURD
The Shepherd’s Calendar – Choral Symphony for baritone, SATB chorus and orchestra (1975)
Roderick Williams, baritone
The London Chorus
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Ronald Corp, conductor
DUTTON EPOCH CDLX 7280
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‘…a moving, powerful piece in an impassioned performance.’
James A. Altena, Fanfare – July/August 2012
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concert performances
John Addison, narrator
Alexander Wells, piano
New London Children’s Choir
Members of the New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp, director
Duration: 54′ 52″ Naxos 8.572777 Click for more details and to buy from Naxos
Both CDs [Ice Mountain and Hurd Pop Cantatas] serve up delightful material in different ways. Corp sets Emma Hill’s blank verse to a more modern and inventive kaleidoscope of styles hinting at Lloyd Webber, Bart’s Oliver!, Menotti and Orff’s Music for Children. Corp’s recent children’s opera is the more demanding to perform… The well-drilled choir (aged 7-18) proves it can sing in different parts and deal with complex rhythms and unexpected word patterns… Both are immensely accessible and at times irresistible and genuinely poignant…. Members of the New London Orchestra provide a sensitive and reliable backing to both discs.
Neil Patrick, Light Music Society Magazine, Issue 53, Autumn 2011
