Recordings
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You'll Never Walk Alone
£5.00 (£1.50 p&p)
The most recent recording made by the Choir. Recorded in 2001 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Choir.
Tracklisting:
You'll Never Walk Alone; Gwahoddiad; Morte Criste; Speed Your Journey; O Isis and Osiris; Glyn Rhosyn; My Lord What a Morning; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Amen; Hava Nagila; My Heart Will Go On; Some Enchanted Evening; Calm is the Sea; She; Si Hei Lwli Mabi; Softly as I Leave You; Autumn Leaves; I Believe
Tsunami
£5.00 (£1.50 p&p)
A Double CD live recording of the Tsunami Relief Concert which took place in the Northgate Arena, Chester in January 2005 when £15,000 was raised for the Tsunami Relief Fund. The City of Chester Male Voice Choir was one of several local musical organisations and artistes taking part in the concert. The recording contains a bonus recording of the song 'We Were There'
Tracklisting:
Taking part in the concert and included on this double album were the following:- The City of Chester Male Voice Choir; Karamba Samba; The City of Chester Band; A Handbag of Harmonies; Kathleen O'Connor; Farndon and District Brass Band; Kellsborrow Choir; Chester Ladies Choir; Valerie Watts. The double album contains a wide variety music with well over 30 tracks.
Festival – The Cestrian Male Voice Choir – In Concert
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The Choir's first vinyl recording made in 1973. Recorded in Central Hall, City Road.
Tracklisting:
Le Reve Passe;I Believe; Ol’ Man River; In a Monastery Garden; Down Among the Dead Men; Speed Your Journey; Thou Gavest; Battle Hymn of the Republic; The Lord is My Light
The Impossible Dream; Morte Criste
O Isis and Osiris; How Great Thou Art (Solo Tom Mawhinney); Invitation; Love Could I only Tell Thee
Sample tracks:
THE CESTRIAN MALE VOICE CHOIR OF CHESTER – FESTIVAL VOLUME TWO
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A CD of an original LP which was recorded in 1975 by John Hassell Recordings, of London, in the Chapel at Eaton Hall by kind permission of the Duke of Westminster
Tracklisting:
Comrades in Arms; An Evening’s Pastorale; The Exodus Song; Rest Weary Heart; Amazing Grace; With Cat-Like Tread; The Bandits Chorus
Goin’ Home; Cyfri’r Geifr; How Great Thou Art (Soloist Tom Mawhinney); Celtic Hymn; The March of the Men of Harlech.
The Cestrian Male Voice Choir of Chester
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A CD of an LP recording which was recorded in the Central Hall in 1977. and on the back of the sleeve there is a colour photograph of the Choir (82 singing members in their red jackets and accompanist Trudi Hughes) which was taken in the lower hall of the old Central Hall.
Tracklisting:
On the March; Sanctus; Aus Der Traube in die Tonne; My Grandfather’s Clock; Dashenka; German Psalm; Casatschok; Llanfair; Springtime on the Rhine; Maire My Girl; There is Nothing Like a Dame; The Whiffenpoof Song; Psalm 100
The CESTRIAN MALE VOICE CHOIR of CHESTER – We Sing to Serve
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A CD of the original LP recording. The recording took place in Central Hall – the home of the Choir for so many years and was the last performance of the Choir in the hall before it was demolished.
Tracklisting:
Gloria; Beautiful Dreamer; Thanks be to God; Jacob’s Ladder; Deus Salutis; The Battle Hymn of the Republic; God’s Choir; Vale; Morte Criste; Eli Jenkins’ Prayer (narration Cyril Thomas); Michael Row the Boat Ashore; My Land
“THE CESTRIAN MALE VOICE CHOIR – Highlights of 50 Golden Years - 1941 –1991”
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A CD of a cassette tape recording which was produced by the Choir and was recorded in 1990 at Christ Church, Newtown, Chester, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Choir in 1991. The narration was by local broadcaster Peter Spaull
Tracklisting:
Le Reve Passe; The Exodus Song; Aus der Traube; Eli Jenkins’ Prayer; Sanctus; Glyn Rhosyn; Morte Criste; How Great Though Art (Soloist Gareth Evans); The Battle Hymn of the Republic; Psalm 100
Cestrian Male Voice Choir of Chester – Gastkonzert
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A CD of an original cassette which was recorded on the 22nd April 1975 at the BASF Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein when the Choir was on tour to West Germany.
This private recording (i.e. not produced for public distribution) was significant in that it was produced in the very early days of the mass production of cassette tape recordings and, on an historical note, it was produced in the actual concert hall where the very first recording on magnetic tape was ever made.
Tracklisting:
March of the Men of Harlech; Amazing Grace; Speed your Journey; Morte Criste; La Ci Darem (Duet: Gwen Davies and Robert Bickerstaff); The Bandit’s Chorus; Goin’ Home; Auf Euer Wohl; I Believe; There is Nothing Like a Dame; Wanting You (Duet: Gwen Davies and Robert Bickerstaff);
Goodbye (Robert Bickerstaff and the Choir)