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  Robin Lough    (b. 1946) Boy Soprano Soloist 
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Robin Lough is the son of famous boy soprano Ernest Lough. Robin and his brother Graham both became choristers and joined their father Ernest Lough singing at Temple Church.
Related Sites
BCSD: Ernest Lough
BCSD: Graham Lough
Robin's younger brother.
NPR Interview with Robin Lough

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Other Recordings Compact | Full
Robin Lough - The Ernest Lough Album
The Ernest Lough Album (His Master's Voice CLP 1675, LP) 1963
Featuring Ernest Lough   Robin Lough   Ronald Mallett  
with the Choir of The Temple Church Organist and Director of Choir Dr George Thalben-Ball
  1.   Hear My Prayer/O For The Wings Of A Dove (L)   Soloist Ernest Lough (Treble)
  2.   I Waited For The Lord (Mendelssohn)   Soloists Ernest Lough and Ronald Mallett (Trebles)
  3.   O Come Everyone That Thirsteth (Mendelssohn)  
  4.   Hear Ye, Israel (Mendelssohn)   Soloist Ernest Lough (Treble)
  5.   I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Handel)   Soloist Ernest Lough (Treble)
  6.   I Will Sing Of Thy Great Mercies (Mendelssohn) (L)   Soloist Ernest Lough (Treble)
  7.   Hark! Hark! The Lark (Schubert)  
  8.   Who Is Sylvia? (Schubert)   Soloist Ernest Lough (Treble)
  9.   Abide With Me (Monk)   Soloist Ernest Lough (Baritone)
10.   For The Beauty Of The Earth (Evans)   Soloists Ernest Lough (Baritone) and Robin Lough (Treble)
Robin Lough - Favourite Hymns and Organ Voluntaries
Favourite Hymns and Organ Voluntaries (EMI CLP 1452, LP) 1961
Featuring Temple Church Choir   Robin Lough   Ernest Lough (non-treble)  
Organist and Choir Master Dr. George Thalben-Ball. Soloists Ernest Lough and Robin Lough on one track.
  1.   Voluntary on the Old 100th (Purcell)   Organ solo by Dr. George Thalben-Ball
  2.   All people that on earth do dwell (Old 100th) (Bourgeois-Kethe)  
  3.   Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Repton) (Parry-Whittier)  
  4.   O praise ye the Lord (Laudate Dominum) (Parry)  
  5.   The Lord’s my Shepherd (Crimond) (Irvine)  
  6.   Hark, what a sound (Highwood) (Terry-Myers)  
  7.   Love Divine, all loves excelling (Love Divine) (Stainer-Wesley)  
  8.   God be in my head (Walford Davies-Stanton)  
  9.   Solemn Melody (Walford Davies)  
10.   Fantasia in C (Bach – completed and edited by Hermann-Keller)   Organ solo by Dr. George Thalben-Ball
11.   Jesus, Blessed Saviour (vv 1, 3 & 5 Eudoxia (Gould-Faber (vv 2, 4 & 6 Caswall (Filitz-Faber)   Soloist: Ian Le Grice
12.   For the beauty of the earth (Lucerna Laudonia) (Evans-Pierpoint)   Soloists: Ernest Lough (baritone), Robin Lough (treble)
13.   All hail the Pow’r of Jesus’ Name (Ladywell) (Ferguson-Perronet-Rippon)  
14.   The day Thou gavest (St. Clement) (Scholefield-Ellerton)  
15.   My spirit longs for Thee (Maria Jung und Zait) (Byrom)  
16.   O worship the King (Hanover) (Croft)  
17.   Now thank we all our God (Nun Danket) (Crüger-Rinkart translated by Winkworth)  
18.   Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)   Organ solo by Dr. George Thalben-Ball
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Temple Church Choir (EMI 7EG 8614 , 45rpm Single) 1960
Featuring Temple Church Choir   Robin Lough  
EP of two organ solos and two anthems. 'The Souls of the Righteous' by Nares and 'O taste and see' by Vaughan Williams. Robin Lough sings solo in both and is joined by Ian le Grice in the Nares. Organ solos: Thalben Ball plays his own 'Elegy' and Gigout's 'Toccata in B minor'.
Robin Lough - Christmas Carols
Christmas Carols (Angel 535 834, LP) 1959
Featuring Temple Church Choir   Robin Lough  
Robin Lough solos in one track
  -19.   Hark! The herald angels sing  
  2.   What sweeter music (spoken)  
  3.   God rest you merry, gentlemen  
  4.   Gabriel's message  
  5.   O child most holy  
  6.   While shepherds watched  
  7.   Come let us unite  
  8.   Angels from the realms of glory  
  9.   Three kings  
10.   Unto us a boy is born  
11.   Christ was born on Christmas Day  
12.   Away in a manger  
13.   In dulci jubilo  
14.   The holly and the ivy  
15.   Shepherds, in the field abiding  
16.   The first Nowell  
17.   O come, all ye faithful  
18.   Sing heaven imperial (spoken)  
19.   Gloria in excelsis Deo  
Books Compact | Full
Robin Lough - Better Land, The: In Search of the Lost Boy Sopranos
Better Land, The: In Search of the Lost Boy Sopranos (Rectory Press , Book) April 2005
Featuring The Better Land Series   Temple Church Choir   Clifford Adams   Derek Barsham   Denis Barthel   John Bonner   Richard Bonsall   Alan Bradbrook   Master John Brookman   Richard Brown   Master Gordon Carter   Master (Arthur) Iwan Davies   Master Leslie Day   Robin Fairhurst   Frederick (John) Firth   Michael Ginn   John Gwilym Griffith(s)   Robert Harris   Michael Hartnett   Aled Jones   Beverley Jones   Raymond Kinsey   Harold Langston   Ernest Lough   Robin Lough   Thomas Meddings   Brian Moody   Billy Neely   Graham Payn   Robert Duncan Peel   Kenneth Purves   The Choir of the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy   Steffani and his Silver Songsters   Thomas Tweedy   Denis Wright  
By Stephen Beet. Features much newly-discovered material, telling the often very human stories of the boys behind the voices, at the height of their singing careers and in their later lives. Copiously illustrated with many previously-unpublished photographs and manuscript samples, with a Foreword by Peter Purves.

As well as chapters on Iwan Davies, Derek Barsham, and Denis Wright, amongst others there are also chapters under the following headings: The Temple Boys, The Manchester Boys, The Music Hall Boys, The Fleeting Boys, and The Broadcast Boys.

This book is available directly from the author: Contact StephenRBeet@gmail.com Price £10 plus postage

This book is available for the cost of postage and packing only if the set of six The Better Land CD albums is ordered.
Email   Stephen Beet The book costs £10 plus postage. Cheque or PayPal.
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