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”
Mozart: Requiem
The staged production of Raphaël Pichon’s concept for Mozart’s Requiem with director Romeo Castellucci premiered at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, 2019. After several dates across Europe, a concert version premiered at the 2023 BBC Proms; The Times headline exclaimed, “Mozart’s Requiem is reborn at the Proms” continuing with “It’s not often a performance of Mozart’s Requiem comes along that makes it sound …
Playlist
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Ying Fang; Beth Taylor; Laurence Kilsby; Alex Rosen; Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Mozart: “Miserere mei” (Originally “Kyrie”), K. 90
Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Mozart: Motet, “Quis te comprehendat,” K. Anh 110
Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Mozart: Two German Church Songs, K. 343/1, “O Gottes Lamm”
Beth Taylor; Pygmalion/Raphaël Pichon
Cor Collaborandi: A Transnational Celebration of the Early Modern
Led by trombonist and early music specialist Michael Kris, the Kris Collective brings together musicians from across two continents performing on modern instruments. Their album Cor Collaborandi celebrates the cross-pollination of musical ideas between the Venetian and Spanish schools of the early Baroque. In his program notes, Michael Kris says: “Music of the 16th to 18th centuries was transmitted artist …
Playlist
Giovanni Battista Grillo: Sonata No. 2 a 7
Orlandus Lassus: “Magnificat” on the 2nd tone, “Ultimi miei sospiri”
Pietro Lappi: “La Negrona” and “L’Arborea”
Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Sonata a 6
Gabrieli: Madrigal, “Lieto godea”
Philippe Rogier: “Laudate Dominum”
Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio: Canzon a 8, “La Porta”
The Masters of Notre-Dame de Paris
Led by harpsichordist and organist Sébastien Daucé, Ensemble Correspondances brings together a group of singers and instrumentalists, all of whom are specialists in seventeenth-century French repertory. Ensemble Correspondances made its Chicago debut in the spring of 2022 at University of Chicago. Their new album centers the Messe de Requiem of André Campra, contextualizing it with works by François Cosset, Jean …
Playlist
Andre Campra: “Messe de Requiem”
Jean Veillot: “Ave verum corpus”
Jean Veillot: “Domine salvum fac regem”
Pierre Robert: “Christe redemptor omnium”
Pierre Robert: “Tristis est anima mea”
Discovering Imogen
Before Imogen Holst died in 1984, she established the Holst Foundation to support living composers which led to the founding NMC Recordings. Imogen Holst, daughter of Gustav Holst, was a teacher, educator, festival administrator, and one of Britain’s most accomplished composers. Discovering Imogen features many world premiere recordings of her Modern era works for choir and orchestra. Colin Matthews, founder …
Playlist
“What Man is He?”
Variations on “Loth to Depart”
“Festival Anthem”
Allegro assai for strings
“On Westhall Hill”
Suite for String Orchestra
“Persephone”
