Roderick Williams, City of London Choir & Hilary Davan Wetton - Horovitz: Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo (2024)

Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo (1970) is a children's cantata composed in a popular style for unison or two-part voices and piano, with optional bass and drums. The libretto by Michael Flanders is an adaptation of the Biblical tale of Noah found in Genesis chapters 6–9. It is one of a series of "pop cantatas" commissioned for school use by Novello, including The Daniel Jazz (1963) by Herbert Chappell, Jonah-Man Jazz (1966) by Michael Hurd and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber (1968).

Tracklist
01. Horovitz- Introduction
02. Horovitz- The Lord looked down
03. Horovitz- The people of Fun City
04. Horovitz- Then Japhet, Shem and Ham
05. Horovitz- It looks like rain
06. Horovitz- For the floodgates of Heaven were opened
07. Horovitz- Forty days and nights
08. Horovitz- For the Lord closed the floodgates
09. Horovitz- Father Noah please open the porthole
10. Horovitz- Then the Lord looked down
11. Horovitz- Oh what a wonderful scene