Coventry Green

Coventry Green, an eight-voice vocal ensemble, orginated in 1975 as a quartet performing at Christmas, then quickly expanded to eight voices with performances throughout the year. The ensemble, based in southwestern Ohio, disbanded in 2005. It specialized in the demanding but rewarding art of a cappella performance. The group's repertoire included a wide variety of vocal genres, including sacred choral music, folk songs, madrigals, spirituals and contemporary music.

Coventry Green issued three recordings - Coventry Carols, a collection of familiar and unusual songs for the Christmas season; Between Meals, a sampling of secular music spanning five centuries (the CD is titled in playful homage to the group's favorite pasttime, next to singing), and A Sacred Feast, which features sacred music. A limited number of these recordings are still available. If you are interested in purchasing one (or more!) of these recordings, please click here to contact our sales representative. Compact discs are $15.00, and cassette tapes are $8.00 (shipping and handling included).

Coventry Carols (CDs and cassette tapes)
Recorded at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Huber Heights, Ohio, in 1990
Total recording time 43:50
Linda Busarow, soprano
Lauren Gleason, soprano
Jane Ellen Gurokovich, mezzo-soprano
Christi Wilson, alto
Jay Weiss, tenor
Ronald Hild, tenor/baritone
Basil Fett, baritone
Steve Makovec, baritone

Lirum, lirum - Thomas Morley
The Virgin's Plaint - Austin Lovelace
Psallite - Michael Praetorius
Blessed Be That Maid Marie - arr. Crawford Thoburn
He Is Born - arr. K. Lee Scott
Still, Still, Still - arr. Norman Luboff
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Elizabeth Poston
Oh Du Fröliche - arr. K. Lee Scott
Coventry Carol - arr. Fred Prentice
Sing We Now of Christmas - Traditional
Infant Holy - arr. John Rutter
Wexford Carol - arr. John Rutter
He Smiles Within His Cradle - David Willcocks
Summer in Winter - Terry Price
Silent Night - arr. Malcom Sargent
Kling Glöcken - arr. Baril Fett
Deck the Halls - arr. James McKelvey
My Dancing Day - arr. K. Lee Scott
A Merry Christmas - arr. Arthur Warrell

Between Meals (CDs and cassette tapes)
Recorded at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Huber Heights, Ohio, in 1993
Total recording time 56:45
Linda Busarow, soprano
Lauren Gleason, soprano
Jane Ellen Gurokovich, mezzo-soprano
Christi Wilson, alto
Jay Weiss, tenor
Ronald Hild, tenor/baritone
Basil Fett, baritone
Steve Makovec, baritone

Now Spring in All Her Glory - Jacques Arcadelt
All Ye Who Music Love - Balthazar Donato
Weep, O Mine Eyes - John Bennet
Fire, Fire, My Heart - Thomas Morley
The Three Ravens - arr. Thomas Ravenscroft
O occhi manza mia - Orlando di Lasso
The Silver Swan - Orlando Gibbons
Il est bel et bon - Passereau
Ecco mormorar l'onde - Claudio Monteverdi
Mon coeur se recommande a vous - Orlando di Lasso
Charm Me Asleep - Henry Leslie
Since First I Saw Your Face - Thomas Ford
Fa Una Canzona - Orazio Vecchi
Among the Leaves So Green, O - Arr. John Byrt
O Waly Waly - arr. Lauren Gleason
The Dark-Eyed Sailor - arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
O My Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose - David Dickau
Sometimes I Feel - arr. Alice Parker, re-voiced by Lauren Gleason
Migildi, Magildi - arr. Grayston Ives
The Turtle Dove - arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Canzonets - Jean Berger
Snake Baked a Hoecake
The Prune Song
Grasshopper Song
Hobby Horse
The Frisco Whale
Dayton 1903 - Randy Newman, as arr. for The King's Singers

A Sacred Feast (CDs only available)
Recorded at Christ Episcopal Church, Dayton, Ohio, in 2003
Total recording time 58:20
Lauren Gleason, soprano
Debbie Martin, soprano
Madelyn Callender, alto
Christi Wilson, alto
Greg Martin, tenor
Dan Townsend, tenor
Ron Hild, baritone
Steve Makovec, baritone

Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal - arr. Alice Parker
Gaudete omnes - Jan Piter Sweelinck
Kyrie eleison - Tomás Luis de Victoria
Gloria in excelsis Deo - Tomás Luis de Victoria
Ave verum corpus - William Byrd
Haec dies - William Byrd
Prayer of the Venerable Bede - Richard Proulx
Justorum animae - Charles Villiers Stanford
Beati quorum via - Charles Villiers Stanford
Ave Maria - Franz Biebl
Hosanna to the Son of David - Orlando Gibbons
Prayer to Jesus - George Oldroyd
Locus iste - Anton Bruckner
Tota pulchra est - Maurice Duruflé
Ubi caritas - Maurice Duruflé
Sicut cervus - Giovannai Pierluigi da Palestrina
Come, Ye That Love the Lord - arr. Alice Parker
Bright Canaan - arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
His Voice as the Sound - arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
Come, Thou Fount - arr. Lloyd Pfautsch
O nata lux - Morten Lauridsen
With a Voice of Singing - Kenneth Jennings