Name: Owain Park: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (from Shall I compare thee?) by Oxford Academic (OUP)
Duration: 5 min 22 s
Description: Listen to complete performances of Oxford’s sacred and secular choral works, newly-published in 2015. Many of OUP’s recent choral titles for 2015 are featured on our new promotional sampler CDs. We know that choral directors find our top-class recordings to be a real help when choosing repertoire; these are conducted by Bob Chilcott, and engineered and produced by John Rutter.

This short work by Marques L. A. Garrett sets a beautiful and poignant text by Paul Laurence Dunbar that tells of the healing effects of music and how our own music-making can spread joy to those around us. The warm chordal texture and stirring harmonies bring to life the beautiful narrative of the poem.

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Written in an a cappella style with scat accompaniment, A Tree is a Song is a joyful celebration of the connections and affinity found in nature and how wisdom and knowledge can be passed on 'as a melody from tree to tree'. McDowall's setting of Heather Lane's text embodies the theme of connection as the parts imitate and respond to each other, sharing in the heartwood's song.

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This is a compelling setting of words by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that speaks to the way the power of song can help to overcome dark times. Garrett brings the powerful text to life through dynamic and textural contrasts, a passionate melody, and imaginative harmonies.

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Dhire-dhire sets a 'dohe' (couplet) by the fifteenth-century Indian mystic poet Kabir on the topic of patience. Esmail explores the soundworld of the Hindustani classical tradition, with characteristic vocal ornamentation in the solo lines, and the score includes both devanagari script and a transliteration, for ease of reading.

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Date of episode recording: 14th February, 23rd February and 1st March 2024 
Duration: 32.15 minutes 
Language of episode: English  
Presenter: Mark Maslin and Simon Chin-Yee  
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Listen to complete performances of Oxford’s sacred and secular choral works, newly-published in 2015. Many of OUP’s recent choral titles for 2015 are featured on our new promotional sampler CDs. We know that choral directors find our top-class recordings to be a real help when choosing repertoire; these are conducted by Bob Chilcott, and engineered and produced by John Rutter. 

Owain Park: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (from Shall I compare thee?)

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