The new album from Voces8 gathers night-inspired repertoire. includes two world premiere works from British composer and 2024 Classic FM Rising Star Lucy Walker, as well as US composer and regular collaborator, Taylor Scott Davis. Selections by contemporary choral composers Caroline Shaw, Kerensa Briggs, Dan Forrest, and Frank Ticheli share Voces8’s formidable platform with arrangements of songs by Ludovico Einaudi, Sigur Rós, Korean composer Jung Jae-il (of Parasite and Squid Game fame), and the composer of the music for The Legend of Zelda games Koji Kondo. Remarkably, the collection also includes a selection by Hugo Alfvén that is new to WFMT.
Overall, the collection finds Voces8 skillfully threading the needle between their label’s apparent demand for blissful/zen/atmospheric albums and the ensemble’s mission to expand the choral canon and welcome new audiences.
