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Of a Summer Day

Lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano (or mezzo soprano) solo and string orchestra

Op. 77195124'

Overview

Movements

To-day' (Carlyle), 'Morning' (anon.), 'Make much of time' (Herrick), 'Song of June' (Symons), 'Elegy' (Arnold), 'Scherzo' (Harvey), 'Hurricane' (Bridges), 'Sunset' (Bridges), 'Silver' (de la Mare)

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Of a Summer Day

Hans Gál: Music for Voices, Volume Three

Toccata Classics · TOCC0751

℗ 2025 Toccata Classics, London

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Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): Prelude1:00
CD 1 · Track 6 · Pixels Ensemble; Bridget Budge (conductor)
Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): No.1 To-day1:00
CD 1 · Track 7 · Pixels Ensemble; Borealis Choir; Bridget Budge (conductor)
Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): No.2 Morning1:00
CD 1 · Track 8 · Carolyn Sampson (soprano); Pixels Ensemble; Borealis Choir; Bridget Budge (conductor)
Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): No.3 Make much of Time1:00
CD 1 · Track 9 · Pixels Ensemble; Borealis Choir; Bridget Budge (conductor)
Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): No.4 Song of June1:00
CD 1 · Track 10 · Pixels Ensemble; Borealis Choir; Bridget Budge (conductor)
Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): No.5 Elegy1:00
CD 1 · Track 11 · Carolyn Sampson (soprano); Pixels Ensemble; Borealis Choir; Bridget Budge (conductor)
Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): No.6 Scherzo1:00
CD 1 · Track 12 · Pixels Ensemble; Borealis Choir; Bridget Budge (conductor)
Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): No.7 Hurricane1:00
CD 1 · Track 13 · Carolyn Sampson (soprano); Pixels Ensemble; Borealis Choir; Bridget Budge (conductor)
Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): No.8 Sunset1:00
CD 1 · Track 14 · Carolyn Sampson (soprano); Pixels Ensemble; Borealis Choir; Bridget Budge (conductor)
Of a Summer Day, lyrical suite for 3-part women's choir with soprano solo and strings, Opus 77 (1951): No.9 Silver1:00
CD 1 · Track 15 · Pixels Ensemble; Borealis Choir; Bridget Budge (conductor)

Recordings

Hans Gál: Music for Voices, Volume Three

Toccata Classics

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Programme & recording details

Hans Gál: Music for Voices, Volume Three
Of a Summer Day, Op. 77
Four Part-Songs, Op. 61
Nachtmusik, Op. 44
Two Songs, Op. 63
Two Songs, Op. 8

Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Pixels Ensemble, Borealis Choir, Bridget Budge and Stephen Muir (directors)
Toccata Classics TOCC0751, 2025

Scores & texts

Publication & availability

Publisher: Association of American Choruses (1960), now private
Availability: available privately

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Performances

Other performances

Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra/HG, Roberta McEwan (sol), Edinburgh, May 1953
St. Andrew House Singers/Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra/Hans Gál, May 1954
Bryn Mawr College Chorus/Goodale, Bryn Mawr, Apr. 1956
Royal Scottish Academy of Music, Glasgow, May 1956
Judith Lovat/Waverley Singers/Meadows Chamber Orchestra/Peter Evans, Edinburgh, Nov. 1984, Mar. 1985
The Waverley Singers, Edinburgh, Mar. 1986
Patricia Rosario (sop),Edinburgh Quartet, Glasgow Chamber Choir/Bawtree. Edinburgh, Jun. 2015