Awake My Soul: Help Me To Sing / O.S.T. - Awake My Soul: Help Me to Sing / O.S.T. - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Primarily an album of sacred and inspirational hymns and songs, 'Rise, My Soul' is the final album from BYU conductor Jean Applonie. The album features some of her finest conducting work as the BYU Women's Chorus brings to life familiar and new choral arrangements. The Women's Chorus at BYU is a large group of select, versatile singers who perform a diverse repertoire extending from medieval and renaissance works to masterpieces of our own time. Folk music and other varied genres are included in the choir's study and performances. The choir is well known for it's beautiful, blended sound from pristine, quiet unison to the majesty of large textured sonorities. Album Tracks 1. How Great Thou Art 2. I Feel My Savior's Love 3. Rise, My Soul 4. Magnificat 5. Mary Speaks 6. Tundra 7. Shenandoah 8. How Can I Keep from Singing? 9. Psalm 8 (Adonai, Adonenu) 10. Even When He Is Silent 11. Fresh and Fearless 12. I Know That My Redeemer Lives

Wells Cathedral Choir and director Matthew Owens are joined by violist Philip Dukes and mezzo-soprano Rachael Lloyd for this exploration of choral works by the American composer Gary Davison. Part of a continuing and fruitful relationship, all of the works on this recording were written for, and premiered by, the Wells choir. Consisting entirely of first recordings, this new album contains Davison's largest work to date - the 'Missa pro defunctis', a powerful and moving setting of the Requiem - alongside 'Most High, Glorious God', the beautifully simple 'Wessex Service', and the uplifting 'Awake, My Soul'. The Wells Cathedral Choir was hailed in 2011 by an international jury from Gramophone as the greatest choir with children in the world, and the sixth greatest overall. The choir celebrated it's 1100th birthday in 2009 boys first sang at Wells Cathedral in 909 and the full choral tradition dates back over 800 years. In 1994 the choral foundation at Wells was enriched by the addition of girl choristers. Today the choir consists of eighteen boy and eighteen girl choristers. And twelve Vicars Choral. Album Tracks 1. Awake, My Soul - Wells Cathedral Choir 2. Most High, Glorious God - David Bednall/Wells Cathedral Choir 3. I. Magnificat - Wells Cathedral Choir 4. II. Nunc Dimittis - Wells Cathedral Choir 5. Introit 6. Kyrie Eleison 7. Gradual 8. Tract 9. Sequence 10. Offertory 11. Santus & Benedictus 12. Agnus Dei 13. Communion

Album Tracks 1. Walkin' After Midnight 2. Stop the World 3. Just Out of Reach 4. Too Many Secrets 5. Walking Dream 6. Just a Closer Walk with Thee 7. In Care of the Blues 8. I've Loved and Lost Again 9. Life's Railway to Heaven