Choir of Clare College - Stabat - Arvo Part James MacMillan & Peteris Vasks - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Christian McBride has toured and recorded extensively with his jammy, electric, Weather Report-like band but felt the urge to return to his jazz roots, so he assembled Inside Straight an acoustic quintet featuring Warren Wolf, Carl Allen, Eric Reed and Steve Wilson. Recorded in the famed Fantasy Studios. Album Tracks 1. Brother Mister 2. Theme for Kareem 3. Rainbow Wheel 4. Starbeam 5. Used 'Ta Could 6. The Shade of the Cedar Tree 7. Pursuit of Peace 8. Uncle James 9. Stick & Move 10. Where Are You?

Icelandic music of the last half century is the focus of this recording by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, led by it's conductor, Graham Ross. Born from his close collaboration with the native composers of the 'Land of Fire and Ice', this program sets out to explore and highlight their hypnotic soundworld, instinctively leaning towards contemplation. A prime example is the touchingly beautiful Requiem by Sigurður Sævarsson, which here receives it's world premiere recording. Album Tracks 1. Thorvaldsdóttir Ad Genua 2. Sigurbjörnsson Heyr, Himna Smiður 3. Baldvinsson Kvöldvers 4. Ragnarsson Ave Maria 5. Thorvaldsdóttir Heyr ÞÚ Oss Himnum Á 6. Sævarsson Magnificat 7. Sveinsson Haustvísur Til Máríu 8. Ásgeirsson HJÁ Lygnri Móðu 9. Birgisson Afmorsvísa 10. Leifs Hinsta Kveðja for Strings Op. 53 11. Sævarsson Requiem I. Introit 12. Sævarsson Requiem II. Kyrie 13. Sævarsson Requiem III. Sanctus 14. Sævarsson Requiem IV. Benedictus 15. Sævarsson Requiem V. Agnus Dei 16. Sævarsson Requiem VI. Lux Æterna 17. Sævarsson Requiem VII. in Paradisum 18. Sigur RÓS (Arr. Guy Button) Fljótavík for Strings

This setting of the Stabat Mater, a 13th century hymn to the Virgin Mary, is written for soprano, tenor and bass soloists as well as chorus, strings and piano. The work was composed in 2009 and divides the original twenty stanzas of the text into ten movements. It describes the grief-stricken Mother of Jesus standing at the foot of cross, on which he is suffering an agonising death. The overall shape of these movements provides something of an arch structure, with similar music at the beginning and end. Similarly, a slower variation of the second movement is used for the penultimate movement. Album Tracks 1. Stabat Mater~Stabat Mater dolorosa 2. Stabat Mater~Cujus animam 3. Stabat Mater~O quam tristis 4. Stabat Mater~Quis est homo 5. Stabat Mater~Pro peccatis 6. Stabat Mater~Eja mater 7. Stabat Mater~Virgo virginum 8. Stabat Mater~Fac, ut portem 9. Stabat Mater~Christe, cum sit hinc 10. Stabat Mater~Quando corpus