Town Mountain - Lines In The Levee - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With Jabo Williams, Freddie Brown, Charley Taylor+, 20 cuts from 1927-1932.

Expressing what cannot be expressed, what is sometimes beyond understanding, is a task that has challenged composers of sacred music for centuries. In his latest collection of vocal and choral works, award-winning Canadian composer Christopher Tyler Nickel aims to articulate these complex emotional states. The works range from Stabat Mater, an intimate portrayal of a mother's grief poignantly sung by soprano Catherine Redding; a collection of motets, both a cappella and accompanied, including the wonders expressed in a new setting of the O Magnum Mysterium; a meditative setting of the de Profundis; and an uplifting Magnificat. Chorus master Kari Turunen and the Vancouver Chamber Choir join forces with Clyde Mitchell and the Vancouver Contemporary Orchestra in performances that capture by turns the works' peace, grief, hope and transcendence through Nickel's very personal and spiritual musical language.

Debut album for bluegrass' only all-female super-group! Featuring Grammy® nominee Dale Ann Bradley, Sister Sadie began with friends playing at a bluegrass festival. Word travelled fast about the chemistry and music these women were creating, and they began to book bluegrass festivals across the U.S. on reputation alone!