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A Love Letter to Liverpool

THE SPINNERS

arr. Carmel Smickersgill

In My Liverpool Home

5:18

ANON

(1829) 'New Britain'

Words: John Newton • arr. Armand Rabot

Amazing Grace

3:01

CHARLES IVES

Words: Traditional

My Native Land

1:27

TRADITIONAL (ROUD 927)

arr. Marco Galvani

Homeward Bound

4:28

SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK

arr. Harold Boulton

Song to the Seals

3:59

TRADITIONAL CAROL

[Roud 700]

arr. Grace Evangeline Mason

I Saw Three Ships

2:56

JOHN IRELAND

Words: John Masefield

Sea Fever

2:20

MICHAEL HEAD

Words: Ruth Pitter

The Estuary

4:08

RICHARD MILLER

Words: Roger McGough

The Gateway to the Atlantic

5:09

ARR. BETHAN MORGAN-WILLIAMS

Words: Stan Kelly-Bootle

10.

Liverpool Lullaby

7:04

TRADITIONAL

[Roud 1102]

arr. Armand Rabot

11.

Johnny Todd

1:51

MARK SIMPSON

Words: Melanie Challenger

From the opera Pleasure

12.

What Will They Tell Me Tonight?

4:17

STEPHEN HOUGH

Words: Langston Hughes

13.

Madam and Her Madam

0:59

PAUL MCCARTNEY /CARL DAVIS

Words Paul McCartney

14.

The World You're Coming Into

2:17

LENNON AND MCCARTNEY

arr. Alisdair Hogarth

15.

Blackbird

2:45

MANNING SHERWIN

Words: Eric Maschwitz

arr. Joshua Quinlan

16.

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

2:46

TRADITIONAL

'Londonderry Air'

Words: Frederic Weatherly • arr. Stephen Hough

17.

Danny Boy

2:57

'Aislean an Oigfear' or 'The Young Man's Dream'

Words: Thomas Moore

18.

The Last Rose of Summer

3:57

arr. Richard Miller

19.

The Leaving of Liverpool

4:44

TIMOTHY JACKSON

Words: Mandy Ross

20.

All Our Different Voices

4:25

RICHARD RODGERS

Words: Oscar Hammerstein

From the musical Carousel

21.

You'll Never Walk Alone

4:04

Total time: 74:52

Solo: Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano

Solo: Alisdair Hogarth piano

Solo: Ruby Johnston Thomas soprano (14)

Solo: Marina Staneva piano (13,17)

Choral: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir (2)

director & conductor Simon Emery

Choral: Liverpool Philharmonic Training Choir and Melody Makers (20)

director Ali White • conductor Marie-Claire Gervasoni

Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir (21)

Conductor: Ian Tracey

22 December 2018 (21)

15-17 March 2019

"... The result is musically satisfying and rather touching, and Johnston lends her warm, communicative mezzo to a range of idioms…The most intriguing parts of the disc are the new works; no fewer than eight, all specially commissioned for the occasion...The cause is good, and the musical content is as intriguing as it is enjoyable. Don’t hold back."

Gramophone magazine – November 2019

"... Her mezzo really is plush, quite grand when she chooses. Johnston offers a huge selection of numbers, 21 in all, which I felt could have been trimmed down a bit. Along with old favourites (You’ll Never Walk Alone is inevitable but worth it) she offers numbers by seven of the Liverpool Philharmonic’s young composers – a nice touch " ****

Opera Now – October 2019

"... Johnston’s eclectic tribute to her native city integrates traditional, popular and classical into a seamless musical panorama, exquisitely sung throughout. A beauty."

The Sunday Times – 15 September 2019

"...This is a fierce, big-hearted and atmospheric tribute to Johnston’s home city, celebrated in rewardingly unsoupy arrangements of popular romantic, traditional and Beatles songs – Johnston handles them all with rich colours, elegance and feeling."

The Observer – 15 September 2019

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