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, …
Nightfall
Playlist
Hugo Alfvén: “Aftonen”
Max Reger: “Nachtlied,” Op. 138, No. 3
Caroline Shaw: “and the swallow”
Kim André Arnesen: “Even when he is silent”
Frank Ticheli: “There Will Be Rest”
Dan Forrest: “Good Night, Dear Heart”
Taylor Scott Davis: “Stardust”
Lucy Walker: “O Nata Lux”
Kerensa Briggs: “Media Vita”
Max Richter: “On the Nature of Daylight”
Jung Jae-il: Psalms (two mvmts)
Sigur Rós: “Fljótavik”
Ludovico Einaudi: “Experience”
Koji Kondo: “The Legend of Zelda – The Wind Waker”
Life
Mari Samuelsen’s third album for Deutsche Grammophon is inspired by her experience of becoming a mother. Known for her imaginative programming and penchant for electronics and looping, the Norwegian violinist presents music by Olivia Belli, Bryce Dessner, Ludovico Einaudi, Nils Frahm, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Mário Laginha, Hania Rani, Max Richter, and Steve Reich, with a dash of Schubert also thrown into …
Playlist
Bryce Dessner: “Aheym” and “Song for Octave”
Jóhann Jóhannsson: “Cambridge 1963” from The Theory of Everything
Steve Reich: Duet for Two Violins & Strings
Nils Frahm: Hammers
Mário Laginha: Coisas da Terra
Olivia Belli: Sapias
Hania Rani: Glass
Max Richter: “She Remembers” from The Leftovers
Ludovico Einaudi: DNA
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, “Trout” (4th mvmt)
