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What A Mighty God/VocalEssence
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VocalEssence is joined with an orchestra and jazz band for this program of stirring spirituals and rousing gospel melodies. "Flawless choral singing, presented with a genuine felling of compassion and warmth." - BBC Music Magazine
Part of The Witness Series of African-American music, sung by VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, directed by Philip Brunelle.
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William Grant Still: Skyward My People Rose/VocalEssence
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William Grant Still's music for chorus, orchestra and organ brings the blues into the concert hall, ragtime to the ballet stage and the Old World into a new era.
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Dance Like The Wind - Music of Today's Black Composers/VocalEssence
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Thought-provoking and moving music by eight modern composers spans the range of expression from solo cello to chorus, from jazz ensemble to woodwind quintet.
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Got the Saint Louis Blues - Classical Music in the Jazz Age/VocalEssence
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Vibrant music from the crossroads — South and North, African and American, church and street — characterizes the era between 1914 and 1930. Each of the composers here was a significant contributor to the Harlem Renaissance and by tune or text, these works document the coming jazz explosion. Many have never before been recorded.
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Cantate Hodie/Bach Choir of Pittsburgh
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A connoisseur's Christmas! One of the most exciting seasonal CDs to come around in a LONG time! Featuring the artistry of the world acclaimed Bach Choir of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Symphony Brass, Cantate Hodie features an imaginative program of originals and arrangements that are sure to warm the heart and treat the ears! The Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas is hysterical. Arranged by Craig Courtney, and transcribed by Brady Allred & Daniel Shaw, each verse parodies a different genre of classical music.
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Welcome Christmas - Carols & Lullabies from Around the World/VocalEssence
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From across the United States have come composers and arrangers whose work contributes to this collection of Christmas music. These are carols from around the world brought together in arrangements that reflect an inherently American diversity and spirit. From Virgil Thomson's camp meeting setting of "The Holly and the Ivy" and Steve Barnett's swing verson of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" to Randall Davidson's homespun "Christ Was Born on Christmas Day" and Conrad Susa's magnificent Carols & Lullabies, commissioned from Susa specifically for VocalEssence. Maestro Brunelle has chosen carols-both familiar and unfamiliar-tied to one another by their inventiveness, charm and beauty in one of the year's most exciting new holiday discs.
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Water & Light/The Choral Project
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The Choral Project performs a program featuring the music of Eric Whitacre. Included are the enormously-popular “Cloudburst” and the “Five Hebrew Love Songs” performed with String Quartet.
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Wonder Tidings - Christmas Music of Stephen Paulus/Magnum Chorum
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Magnum Chorum's highly anticipated recording of Christmas music by Stephen Paulus. This definitive collection features the composer's finest choral works.
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J.A.C. Redford: Eternity Shut In A Span/Utah Chamber Artists & Philadelphia Brass
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World Premier Recordings! Multiple Emmy Nominated composer J.A.C. Redford has been active in the film and television industries for over 25 years. Redford has scored more than three-dozen feature films, TV movies or miniseries. Eternity Shut In A Span features World Premiere Recordings of the Christmas music of this outstanding composer, in luminous performances by the Utah Chamber Artists and the Philadelphia Brass.
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Laud to the Nativity/Roger Wagner Chorale
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Long out-of-print, and eagerly sought by collectors, Roger Wagner’s recording of Respighi’s intimate tableau, Laud to the Nativity retuns to the catalogue. This recording comes from a series made by the Roger Wagner Chorale in the 1960’s. Coupled with the Respighi on the original LP recording is Monteverdi’s glorious setting of the Magnificat from the Vespers of 1610. The solos, sung here by Marie Gibson, Marilyn Horne, and Charles Bressler, featured in the Respighi Laud, are fresh and clear, and the choir sings in typical Roger Wagner warmth and strength.
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Through the Green Fuse/Conspirare
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Conspirare, inspired by the belief in music's power to change people's lives, seeks to draw all persons into the embrace of the musical arts by producing world-class choral/orchestral performances, by exploring avenues of music innovation, and by engaging new and diverse audiences in extraordinary musical and educational experiences.
Led by renowned conductor Craig Hella Johnson, Conspirare brings innovative programming and virtuosi choral performances to wide-ranging audiences. Combining the classics with edgy contemporary works, the listener is taken on a journey of colorful images and thought provoking textual and musical relationships.
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J.A.C. Redford: Evening Wind/Los Angeles Chamber Singers
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Evening Wind is a new collection of Choral Music by J.A.C. Redford. With texts by E. E. Cummings and William Wordsworth, this music weaves starswept skies and sunflecked seas around the theme of love. J.A.C. Redford is an accomplished composer of concert, chamber and choral music. In films, Redford is best known for scores to The Trip to Bountiful, Oliver & Company, and Newsies, as well as the television series Coach and St. Elsewhere for which he received Emmy® nominations. The Grammy award winning Los Angeles Chamber Singers have been one of L.A.'s premier ensembles for 16 years.
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Requiem/Conspirare (2 discs!)
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Grammy Nominee for Best Choral Performance and Best Engineered Album, Classical!
Now available, this exciting release from the acclaimed professional chamber choir, Conspirare, directed by Craig Hella Johnson, featuring Requiem settings by Herbert Howells and Ildebrando Pizzetti. Conspirare has received rave reviews and national acclaim, most recently the 2005 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, presented by Chorus America. "This is simply gorgeous choral singing…The Choir achieves near-perfect interpretive consensus and vocal ensemble, with stiletto-sharp intonation and unearthly tonal beauty….” American Record Guide “This is the best choir we’ve ever heard….” Fanfare Magazine
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Winter/The Choral Project
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The Choral Project's fifth recording, Winter, features, appropriately enough, music with winter and holiday themes. A wide variety of nationalities and genres are represented here, from contemporary composer Eric Whitacre to pieces from Holland, Nigeria, Russia and Jamaica.
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Handel's Messiah/Apollo Chorus of Chicago (2 CDs!)
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When the Apollo Chorus of Chicago sings, great choral works come alive. Founded in 1872 after the Great Chicago Fire, this powerful 150-voice chorus is one of the city’s most exciting and talked-about musical organizations. Each season Apollo thrills audiences with beautiful music old and new, winning praise for its performances – especially for Handel’s Messiah.
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Veljo Tormis: On American Shores/Portland State University Chamber Choir
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In 2003 Estonian Composer Veljo Tormis heard the Portland State Chamber Choir while they were on tour in his country. Tormis was so taken with the brilliant artistry and expressive power of the ensemble he requested that Bruce Browne and his singers do a CD of his music sung in English. For almost two years the Singers, their conductor and the composer worked together on this project. The result is "On American Shores," a collaboration between a great composer and great American college choir.
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One is the All/The Choral Project
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The Choral Project's sixth recordiing features music that spans the globe and the centuries, including a world premiere by award-winning Broadway composer; lyricist Stephen Schwartz, written especially for this production.
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Passion/Sante Fe Desert Chorale
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Although this recording of repertoire selected from the Chorale’s 2005 summer season is focused on music of the 20th and 21st centuries, it encompasses a wide variety of harmonic rhythmic and stylistic elements.
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A Celebration of Hispanic Music/Santa Fe Desert Chorale
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A study of the evolution of musical style in Hispanic churches in the New World reveals a remarkable melding of a number of cultures. Spanish colonists carried the musical traditions of the European Renaissance to the native people of the Americas, and, through time and circumstance, these traditions merged in the American Southwest to create a musical genre with a rich historical grounding.
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Christmas in Santa Fe/Santa Fe Desert Chorale
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Recorded live at Santa Fe's Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis, the Chorale's latest CD inlcudes beloved carols from around the world, the majestic O Holy Night, John Rutter's lilting Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, Steven Heitzeg's charming setting of the e.e. cummings poem, little tree, and much more beautiful music of the season.
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