Cathedra - New American Choral Series: Stephen Caracciolo - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This anthology brings together representative works from the mainstream of contemporary American choral music. Charles Ives's Psalm 90 evokes a mood reminiscent of congregational Sunday singing in New England. Album Tracks 1. Flowers of Stone 2. Spouting Violets 3. Early Flowers 4. Is There a Flower 5. A Yellow Flower 6. The Rose Is Dying 7. Lily Has a Rose 8. Psalm 90 9. Fern Hill 10. Behold, I Build An House 11. In the Beginning

Gary Davison has earned recognition as one of North America's leading composers in the refined Anglican choral tradition. Mr Davison's work has been described as Inchpersuasive... imaginative and polished... sumptuous and engagingInch (The Washington Post), Inchseductive and spirited... smooth, flexible and clear, allowing the music to shine from withinInch (Hamburger Abendblatt, Germany), as well as Inchbreathtaking and exquisite... exactly the kind of rewarding challenge singers love best.Inch (The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians). Album Tracks 1. Benedicite, Omnia Opera Domini (From Thornapple Service) 2. Jubilate Deo (From a Lovett Trilogy) 3. Most Glorious Lord of Life 4. Christ Hath a Garden 5. Our Thanks We Give for Love and Hope 6. Mount Saint Alban Communion Service 7. Phos Hilaron (From Saint Kilda Service) 8. Psalm 67 Deus Misereatur 9. Psalm 121 Levavi Oculos 10. Saint Francis Canticles 11. A Chorister's Prayer 12. Light, Love, Life 13. Hymn of Praise An Encomium to the Almighty 14. God Be in My Head

About the album; Andrew Nethsingha says InchContemporary music and Commissioning have been central features of the last fifteen years at St John's. It's been a joy to work with talented student composers; singers and instrumental- ists; my own musicianship has been greatly enriched by their creativity and energy... After a 30-month break from sessions during the pandemic; we were very pleased to be able to record again in 2022. The material on this album comes from various times of year; whilst we were also continuing our Magnificat series. For the final sessions in December the outdoor temperature was forty degrees colder than it had been for the previous recording in July! The personnel of the lower voices had also largely changed; but I hope you will hear a successful continuity of sound- world. All the composers are alive today but; at the suggestion of one of them; we have omitted dates of birth so as not to intrude on their privacy. I've curated a sequence of music which aims to celebrate some of the broad range of styles in 21st-century choral writing. The premiere of Iain Farrington's Nova Nova was the final piece in my last St John's broadcast - I have often enjoyed pushing the boundaries of the Anglican choral tradition!Inch Album Tracks 1. O Give Thanks Unto the Lord 2. Sitivit Anima Mea 3. Vertue 1 Vertue 4. Cedit, Hyems 5. Vanity of Vanities 6. O Nata Lux 7. Celebration 8. Alleluia, I Heard a Voice 9. Leaf from Leaf Christ Knows 10. Conversations 11. Carmina Mei Cordis I Aeterna Lux, Divinitas 12. Oriens 13. Quiet Stream 14. Laudes 15. Salvator Mundi, Domine 16. Oh Pristine Example 17. A Blessing 18. Nova, Nova