1906-1952 GB, Glasgow
Composer of Classical and World
Sir Hugh S. Roberton (23 February 1874 – 7 October 1952) was a Scottish composer and Britain's leading choral-master.Roberton was born in Glasgow, where, in 1906, he founded the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. For five years before that it was the Toynbee Musical Association. A perfectionist, he expected the highest standards of performance from its members. Its voice was a choir voice, its individual voices not tolerated. He set new standards in choral technique and interpretation. For almost fifty years until it disbanded in 1951, on the retirement of its founder, the Glasgow Orpheus Choir had no equal in Britain and toured widely enjoying world acclaim. Their repertoire included many Scottish folk songs arranged for choral performance, and Paraphrases, as well as Italian madrigals, English motet
Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Very Best Ot Glasgow Orpheus Choir | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir, Sir Hugh Roberton | 2017 | Album |
The Isle Of Mull | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir Conductor: Sir Hugh Roberton | 1974 | Compil. |
Favourite Songs | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | 1972 | Compil. |
Orlington / An Eriskay Love Lilt | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | 1953 | Album |
To Take The Air A Bonny Lass Was Walking / Come Kindly Death (Come Sweet Repose) | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | 1950 | Album |
Old 124th Psalm / Stracathro | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | 1949 | Album |
Ellan Vannin (Dear Isle Of Man) / The Dashing White Sergeant | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | 1948 | Album |
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring / Haste Thee Nymph | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | 1948 | Album |
Crimond / Sea Sorrow | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir Conducted By Sir Hugh Roberton | 1947 | Album |
The Turtle Dove | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir Conducted By Sir Hugh Roberton | 1946 | Album |
The Blue Bird | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | 1933 | Album |
Summer Is Gone / Cargoes | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | 1924 | Album |
An Eriskay Love Lilt / Scots Wha' Hae | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | 1924 | Album |
The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Compil. | |
Crimond / Sea Sorrow (An Bron Mara) | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Single | |
Go, Lovely Rose / Iona Boat Song | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Album | |
Stracathra / O Come, All Ye Faithful | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Album | |
Glasgow Orpheus Choir | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir Conducted By Sir Hugh Roberton | Single | |
The Glasgow Orpheus Choir - Vol. One | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir, Sir Hugh Roberton | Album | |
Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Single | |
The Glasgow Orpheus Choir - Vol. Two | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir, Sir Hugh Roberton | Album | |
The Celebrated Glasgow Orpheus Choir | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir - Sir Hugh Roberton | Album | |
Old Favourites | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Single | |
An Eriskay Love Lilt | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir, Sir Hugh Roberton | Single | |
Volume Two | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Album | |
The Dashing White Sargeant | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Single | |
Belmont / All In The April Evening | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Single | |
Old Favourites No.2 | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Single | |
The Glasgow Orpheus Choir - Vol. Three | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir, Sir Hugh Roberton | Album | |
Stracathro | The Glasgow Orpheus Choir | Album |