Notes and Editorial Reviews
1 CD and 1 DVD
Celebrating the chart-topping success of Libera’s Peace, the recording is repackaged in deluxe form in time for the holidays. Peace: The Deluxe Edition features an extended CD with five additional tracks, a bonus DVD with music videos and new featurettes, an 18-month full-colour calendar, full song texts and a six-panel poster. Familiar to audiences across the world, the boys have a stunningly original sound, which is at once both ancient and modern. Their distinctive flowing white robes symbolise the traditional origins of their style - yet their music reaches across the generations to a new mainstream audience. LIBERA’s success in album charts around the world bears witness to the extraordinary appeal of this
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unique ‘boy band’. Enchanting audiences wherever they go, they have attracted an enthusiastic fan base in many countries, particularly the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Korea and this year also in the Philippines. Its founder, the composer/arranger/conductor Robert Prizeman, said: "It is a great privilege to work regularly with the young singers of Libera, an honour to play a part in their musical development, to be fired up and challenged by their talent, bubbling enthusiasm and freshness. Each new Libera album offers me unique opportunities to write and arrange music to suit the particular sounds and talents of the current group of boys. The writing and arranging responds to the singers and vice versa – there is a mutual inspiration." The name Libera comes from the band’s signature song based on the Libera Me portion of the Requiem Mass. The boys who make up Libera are between the ages of seven and fourteen, come from a variety of backgrounds and attend local schools. ‘Normal” boys who still love to play football, skateboard, listen to R’n’B and punk music, through their involvement in Libera they have travelled the world, recorded movie soundtracks and CDs and served as backing singers to Elton John, Björk and Pavarotti. But, as one of the boys said, “The travelling and filming is fun but even if we didn’t go anywhere I’d still want to do it because I just love singing.” That joy of singing comes across clearly in their performances and on their recordings.
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Works on This Recording
1.
Sanctissima, for boys' chorus, keyboards & ensemble by Robert Prizeman
Performer:
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Benedict Philipp (Voice),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Fiona Pears (Violin)
Length: 4 Minutes 22 Secs.
2.
Time, for boys' chorus, violin, keyboards & ensemble by Fiona Pears
Performer:
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Joshua Madine (Voice),
Benedict Philipp (Voice),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion)
Length: 4 Minutes 17 Secs.
3.
Ave Virgo (after Mozart's Clarinet Concerto) by Robert Prizeman
Performer:
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Tom Cully (Voice)
Period: Contemporary
Length: 3 Minutes 52 Secs.
4.
Faithful Heart by Beth Nielsen Chapman
Performer:
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Stefan Leadbeater (Voice),
Daniel Fontannaz (Voice),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Joshua Madine (Voice)
Length: 3 Minutes 22 Secs.
5.
A Gaelic Blessing by John Rutter
Performer:
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
James Threadgill (Voice),
Samuel Moriarty (Voice),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Stefan Leadbeater (Voice)
Period: 20th Century
Written: England
Length: 3 Minutes 31 Secs.
6.
Exsulate by Robert Prizeman
Performer:
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Benedict Philipp (Voice),
Fiona Pears (Violin)
Length: 3 Minutes 44 Secs.
7.
How Shall We Sing That Majesty by Robert Prizeman
Performer:
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Stefan Leadbeater (Voice),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Robert Prizeman (Piano)
Period: Contemporary
Length: 4 Minutes 8 Secs.
8.
Lacrymosa, for boys' chorus (after Saint-Saëns's "Aquarium") by Robert Prizeman
Performer:
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Benedict Philipp (Voice),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion)
Period: Modern
Length: 3 Minutes 34 Secs.
9.
Adoro Te, hymn in mode 5, (Liber Usualis No 1855) by Anonymous
Performer:
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards)
Period: Medieval
Written: Europe
Length: 3 Minutes 51 Secs.
10.
Lead, Kindly Light, for boys' chorus, keyboards & ensemble by Robert Prizeman
Performer:
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Jakob De Menezes-Wood (Voice),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards)
Length: 3 Minutes 55 Secs.
11.
Panis angelicus by César Franck
Performer:
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Daniel Fontannaz (Voice),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1872; France
Length: 3 Minutes 14 Secs.
12.
Touch the Sky, song by Ben Crawley
Performer:
James Mordaunt (Voice),
Jakob De Menezes-Wood (Voice),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Benedict Philipp (Voice)
Length: 3 Minutes 13 Secs.
13.
The Fountain, for boys' chorus, keyboards & ensemble (after Chopin's Prelude in C minor) by Robert Prizeman
Performer:
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Ralph Skan (Voice),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion)
Length: 3 Minutes 32 Secs.
14.
Lullabye "Goodnight, my angel" by Billy Joel
Performer:
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards)
Period: 20th Century
Length: 3 Minutes 51 Secs.
15.
Eternal Light, for boys' chorus, keyboards & ensemble by Robert Prizeman
Performer:
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Ralph Skan (Voice),
Stefan Leadbeater (Voice),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Robert Prizeman (Piano)
Length: 4 Minutes 21 Secs.
16.
Going Home by Robert Prizeman
Performer:
Tom Cully (Voice),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
Joshua Madine (Voice),
Benedict Philipp (Voice),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion)
Period: 20th Century
Length: 4 Minutes 27 Secs.
17.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (for the film Meet Me in St. Louis) by Hugh Martin
Performer:
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion),
James Mordaunt (Voice),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Ralph Skan (Voice),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards)
Period: Modern
Written: circa 1944; United States of Ame
Length: 3 Minutes 19 Secs.
18.
Silent Night by Franz Xaver Gruber
Performer:
Fiona Pears (Violin),
Robert Prizeman (Piano),
Robert Prizeman (Keyboards),
Tom Cully (Voice),
Steven Geraghty (Keyboards),
Jonathan Howells (Percussion),
Steven Geraghty (Percussion)
Period: Classical
Written: 1818; Austria
Length: 3 Minutes 22 Secs.
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