Download, Whitacre (composer)
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VOCES8’s gorgeous sound, impeccable ensemble and intense responsiveness to text, harmony and melodic shape is all of the highest quality...when Whitacre deploys a touch more harmonic bite, his... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Pitch-perfect harmonies, in dreamily sumptuous sonics. —
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Special offer. Eric Whitacre: Light & Gold
RecommendedGrace Davidson (soprano), Stephen Kennedy (baritone), Hila Plitmann (spoken Hebrew) & Christopher Glynn (piano)
The Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, The King’s Singers & Pavão Quartet, Eric Whitacre
'The Stolen Child'...is the most immediately impressive. Here Whitacre deftly weaves the entreating faerie voices of Yeats's poem with that of the 'human child'...The burgeoning crescendo which... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Disc of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Choral Performance
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It’s the breadth – not just of repertoire but of sound, technique and approach – that makes it so arrestingly excellent… The musicianship here is dazzling, and nowhere more so than in Britten’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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Cloudburst is the central piece here, a dazzling kaleidoscope of busy clamour, arcing lyricism, solo and spoken passages, sighing, handbells, wind chimes, inter alia. Whitacre was only 22 when... —
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Storytellers
Justin Benavidez, Deloise Lima, Florida State University Wind Ensemble, Florida State University Wind Orchestra, Florida State University Symphonic Band, Patrick Dunnigan, Richard Clary, David Plack
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It's impossible to not be impressed by the range and ambition, from Josquin to their first composerin-residence Ola Gjeilo, and well-crafted arrangements from folk to Bond themes. Several brand-new... —
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Billy Childs's In the Arms of the Beloved is a requiem for his mother a substantial 30-min work Beloved encompassing a range of moods and styles, from honeyed melodies to cool jazz. —
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Choral Performance
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
