A Concert of Sacred and Secular Music

Songs by the
St Peter's Boy Choir

Conducted By
Guyon Wells


This recording is part of a programme presented in the Concert Chamber of the Wellington Town Hall by the St Peter's Boys' Choir during a tour of six North Island cities in August 1966. It represents music covering nearly four hundred years of musical history ranging from the purity of Orlando di Lasso's "Adoramus te" to the piquant line of Benjamin Britten's "Cuckoo"!

The St Peter's Boys' Choir has become widely known through its many broadcast and concert recitals. In the course of two tours, it has performed in all the major cities of the North Island. The choir consists of eighteen boys whose ages range from nine to thirteen, all of whom are members of the St Peter’s School, Cambridge, New Zealand.

The Choir which was heard at the Vice-Regal Opening of the 1966 Auckland Festival, was also chosen as the New Zealand European representative for a Children’s Television Festival staged in Tokyo in February 1967.

Since its formation in 1961, the choir has been directed by Guyon Wells, who graduated in music from the University of New Zealand. After four years of post-graduate study in England, Mr Wells returned to take up his position of Director of Music at St Peter’s School. As a former student at Addington Palace, England, he was recently awarded the honorary diploma of Associate Member of the Royal School of Church Music for his distinguished services to the Church music in New Zealand.

  • Track 01 - Adoramus te


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  • Track 02 - Missa descendit Angelis Domini. Benedictus qui venit


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  • Track 03 - Confitemini Domini


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  • Track 04 - Friday afternoons


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  • Track 05 - Begone dull care


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  • Track 06 - A tragic story


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  • Track 07 - Cuckoo


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  • Track 08 - Ee-Oh!


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  • Track 09 - A New Year carol


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  • Track 10 - I must be married on Sunday


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  • Track 11 - A ceremony of carols. Balulalow


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  • Track 12 - The muse's gift


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  • Track 13 - To music


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  • Track 14 - Barcarolle


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  • Track 15 - Hark! Hark! The lark


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  • Track 16 - Fair as spring


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  • Track 17 - Bastien and Bastienne. When spring with its joy and its laughter


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St Peter's Boys Choir

A Concert of Sacred and Secular Music

Songs by the
St Peter's Boy Choir

Conducted By
Guyon Wells


This recording is part of a programme presented in the Concert Chamber of the Wellington Town Hall by the St Peter's Boys' Choir during a tour of six North Island cities in August 1966. It represents music covering nearly four hundred years of musical history ranging from the purity of Orlando di Lasso's "Adoramus te" to the piquant line of Benjamin Britten's "Cuckoo"!

The St Peter's Boys' Choir has become widely known through its many broadcast and concert recitals. In the course of two tours, it has performed in all the major cities of the North Island. The choir consists of eighteen boys whose ages range from nine to thirteen, all of whom are members of the St Peter’s School, Cambridge, New Zealand.

The Choir which was heard at the Vice-Regal Opening of the 1966 Auckland Festival, was also chosen as the New Zealand European representative for a Children’s Television Festival staged in Tokyo in February 1967.

Since its formation in 1961, the choir has been directed by Guyon Wells, who graduated in music from the University of New Zealand. After four years of post-graduate study in England, Mr Wells returned to take up his position of Director of Music at St Peter’s School. As a former student at Addington Palace, England, he was recently awarded the honorary diploma of Associate Member of the Royal School of Church Music for his distinguished services to the Church music in New Zealand.

  • Track 01 - Adoramus te


    Download

  • Track 02 - Missa descendit Angelis Domini. Benedictus qui venit


    Download

  • Track 03 - Confitemini Domini


    Download

  • Track 04 - Friday afternoons


    Download

  • Track 05 - Begone dull care


    Download

  • Track 06 - A tragic story


    Download

  • Track 07 - Cuckoo


    Download

  • Track 08 - Ee-Oh!


    Download

  • Track 09 - A New Year carol


    Download

  • Track 10 - I must be married on Sunday


    Download

  • Track 11 - A ceremony of carols. Balulalow


    Download

  • Track 12 - The muse's gift


    Download

  • Track 13 - To music


    Download

  • Track 14 - Barcarolle


    Download

  • Track 15 - Hark! Hark! The lark


    Download

  • Track 16 - Fair as spring


    Download

  • Track 17 - Bastien and Bastienne. When spring with its joy and its laughter


    Download

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