Eric Whitacre VOCES8: Home (Double Vinyl / 2LP)

Two branches of choral royalty entwine with majestic harmony on the latest release from Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre and acclaimed vocal ensemble VOCES8.
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Produktnr.028948542000
ForlagDecca
KomponistWhitacre, Eric
GenreKlassisk
Udgivelsesår2023

The album includes a world premiere, All Seems Beautiful To Me, and a new recording of Whitacre’s deeply moving 2019 cantata The Sacred Veil.


The five-minute work All Seems Beautiful To Me, released on Friday 10th February, is based on a poem by Walt Whitman (from Song of the Open Road) celebrating the human spirit’s capacity for generosity and growth. It was commissioned by the United States Air Force Band and here receives its world premiere recording.


Also included is a new recording of one of Whitacre’s most frequently performed and much loved pieces, The Seal Lullaby. The album also includes Sing Gently and Go, Lovely Rose. The former was composed during lockdown specially for Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, made up of over 17,500 singers from 124 different countries. The latter was Whitacre’s first ever composition, written 30 years ago, and thus the new album is also, in part, a joyful celebration of his three decades as a composer.


The longest work is the twelve-movement, hour-long 2019 cantata The Sacred Veil for choir, cello (Emma Denton), and piano (Christopher Glynn). The text, by Whitacre’s close friend and long-time collaborator Charles Anthony Silvestri, commemorates the death of the poet’s young wife Julie from ovarian cancer. It journeys from the growth of their love, through the birth of their children, to their struggle with the illness. One particularly striking section ‘You Rise, I Fall’ involves extraordinary descending and ascending tone-clusters mirroring the emotional states of the dying woman and her husband.


Tracklist:


A1 Go, Lovely Rose     
A2 The Seal Lullaby     
A3 Sing Gently     
A4 All Seems Beautiful To Me (world premiere)    


B1 The Sacred Veil I. The Veil Opens     
B2 The Sacred Veil II. In a Dark and Distant year     
B3 The Sacred Veil III. Home     
B4 The Sacred Veil IV. Magnetic Poetry     


C1 The Sacred Veil V. Wherever There is Birth     
C2 The Sacred Veil VI. I’m Afraid     
C3 The Sacred Veil VII. I am Here     
C4 The Sacred Veil VIII. Delicious Times     


D1 The Sacred Veil IX. One Last Breath     
D2 The Sacred Veil X. Dear Friends     
D3 The Sacred Veil XI. You Rise, I Fall     
D4 The Sacred Veil XII. Child of Wonder