(The) Choral Works of Carey Blyton
So slight, but unfailingly charming music
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Composer or Director: Carey Blyton
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Upbeat Classics
Magazine Review Date: 7/2005
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: URCD190

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Christ Church Carol |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
God's Gifts |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Lullaby |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Litany |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(7) Polyphonic Amens, Movement: 2 Voices |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(7) Polyphonic Amens, Movement: 3 Voices |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(7) Polyphonic Amens, Movement: 4 Voices |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(7) Polyphonic Amens, Movement: 5 Voices |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(7) Polyphonic Amens, Movement: 6 Voices |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(7) Polyphonic Amens, Movement: 7 Voices |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(7) Polyphonic Amens, Movement: 8 Voices |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(The) Christmas Spirit, Movement: Scrooge |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
(The) Christmas Spirit, Movement: Over the Christmas Tree |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(The) Christmas Spirit, Movement: Christmas comes but once a year |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
War Song of the Saracens |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Songs for Juniors I - (3) Food Songs, Movement: Early Bacon (A Stodart-Walker) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Songs for Juniors I - (3) Food Songs, Movement: Sink Song (J A Lindon) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Songs for Juniors I - (3) Food Songs, Movement: Bacon and Eggs (A P Herbert) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Songs for Juniors II - (3) Insect Songs, Movement: Taking the Veil (Harry Graham) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Songs for Juniors II - (3) Insect Songs, Movement: Poor Fly (anon) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Songs for Juniors II - (3) Insect Songs, Movement: Swat a Life (don marquis) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Songs for Juniors III - (3) Bird Songs, Movement: The Cormorant (anon) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Songs for Juniors III - (3) Bird Songs, Movement: The Stork (Carey Blyton) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
Songs for Juniors III - (3) Bird Songs, Movement: The Elephant (anon) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
What then is Love?, Movement: Western wind, when wilt thou blow? (anon) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
What then is Love?, Movement: Tell me where is fancy bred? (Shakespeare) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
What then is Love?, Movement: Stay, O sweet, and do not rise! (Donne) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
What then is Love?, Movement: Love is a sickness full of woes (Samuel Daniel) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(The) Mistletoe Bough |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
(A) Woman's World, Movement: General View of the Sex Situation (Dorothy Parker) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
(A) Woman's World, Movement: Woman's View (Dorothy Moffat) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
(A) Woman's World, Movement: A Grain of Salt (Wallace Irwin) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer Jennifer Partridge, Piano |
In Lighter Mood - (3) Smoking Songs, Movement: Havana! (Thomas Hood) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
In Lighter Mood - (3) Smoking Songs, Movement: Ode to a Fag (Helen Cox) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
In Lighter Mood - (3) Smoking Songs, Movement: I like it! (Graham Lee Hemminger) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Ladies Only, Movement: Some Wench! (Harry Graham) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Ladies Only, Movement: What a display! (Ivor C F Treby) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Ladies Only, Movement: Cutting him dead (William M Thackeray |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Ladies Only, Movement: The Mating Game (Mary Carolyn Davies) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Ladies Only, Movement: King David and King Solomon (James Ball Naylor) |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
(The) Silly Flea |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Nursery Song Suite, Movement: London's Burning |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Nursery Song Suite, Movement: Jack and Jill |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Nursery Song Suite, Movement: Hey, Diddle, Diddle |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Nursery Song Suite, Movement: Hickory, Dickory, Dock |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Nursery Song Suite, Movement: Mary had a Little Lamb |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Nursery Song Suite, Movement: The Lady and the Swine |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Nursery Song Suite, Movement: London Bridge |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Nursery Song Suite, Movement: Sing a Song of Sixpence |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Nursery Song Suite, Movement: Here we go round the Mulberry Bush |
Carey Blyton, Composer
Canzonetta Carey Blyton, Composer |
Author: John Steane
There are 56 tracks on this 64-minute disc. Take out The Mistletoe Bough (3’22”) and the average is just about a minute. Carey Blyton (1932-2002) was remarkably prolific: he wrote chamber music, songs and piano solos, and we note that the Nursery Song Suite is his Op 98. Quite a large number of recordings are currently listed, almost all on the Upbeat label. The part-songs collected here are all sung with the right lightness of voice and spirit by Canzonetta, and Jennifer Partridge brings a graceful touch to the accompaniments. Everything is very slight, but unfailingly charming, amusing and adroit. ‘A skilful miniaturist,’ says his entry in New Grove. Auch kleine Dinge…
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