“Many listeners will wonder where McClelland has been all their lives.
4-1/2 Stars”
- James Manheim, AllMusic.com
Discography
Where the Shadow Glides
Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works
Released on Naxos America July 2022.
New York Virtuoso Singers; Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor
Krista River, Mezzo-soprano; Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone; Donald Berman, Piano; Blair McMillen, Piano; David Enlow, Organ; Alex Guerrero, Vocals; Margaret Dudley, Narrator; Robert May, Narrator; Thomas McCarger, Narrator; Suzanne Schwing, Narrator
McClelland’ s new recording has already garnered widespread international acclaim. The album features fifteen songs for voice and piano with the brilliant artists Krista River, Thomas Meglioranza with pianist Donald Berman. It also include McClelland’s piano work, Five for Piano, with the renowned American pianist Blair McMillen, and three works for chorus performed by extraordinary The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, conductor. The first choral work, a setting of the early English poem, Cædmon’s Hymn, also includes the superb organist David Enlow. A recording not to be missed.
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The Revenge of Hamish
and Other Choral Works
Released on Albany Records November 2003.
William Appling Singers & Orchestra; William Appling, Conductor
William McClelland’s recording of choral works with William Appling Singers & Orchestras was released in 2003. The album includes a variety of choral works including two powerful choral ballds, The Ballad of Don and Dan, with text by the renowned American author Ian Frazier, and the title selection, a setting of poet Sidney Lanier’s remarkable narrative poem. Other works include Five Sonnets for Men’s Voices, with poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Berryman, Conrad Aiken, E. E. Cummings, and Richard Wilbur; a hymn entitled Collect Pond to a text by McClelland’s brother Tim which celebrates the joys of removing plastic bags from trees; works for chorus and piano to poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Mary Oliver; and several others including a cappella works and a work for chorus and woodwind quintet.
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