Eric Whitacre - Choral Music - Naxos: 8559677 - CD or download | Presto Classical

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...a choir long on experience and comfortable in its own collective skin. The mainly vibrato-less singing is warmly blended, with spot-on pitching, and a welcome focus on elucidating text and... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2010
Catalogue No: 8559677
Label: Naxos
Length: 60 minutes

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Whitacre: Her sacred spirit soars

6:25

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Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Whitacre: A Boy and a Girl

3:19

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Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Whitacre: Water Night

4:32

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Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Whitacre: This Marriage

2:34

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Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Whitacre: Lux aurumque

3:17

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Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Lux aurumque (Light of Gold)

3:17

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Whitacre: Little Tree

5:31

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Leslie De'Ath (piano)
Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Whitacre: When David Heard

12:50

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Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Whitacre: Leonardo dreams of his flying machine

8:29

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Carol Bauman (percussion)
Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Excerpt, Whitacre: Songs (3) of Faith

6:23

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Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

i thank you God for most this amazing day

6:23

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Whitacre: Sleep

4:24

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Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Whitacre: Little Birds

3:13

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Leslie De'Ath (piano)
Elora Festival Singers
Noel Edison
Recorded: 18-20 April 2009
Recording Venue: St. John's Church, Elora, Ontario, Canada

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Eric Whitacre’s dedication to the beauty of sound, paired with exquisite texts, results in a poetic combination that creates a unique sonic experience.

These works are existential choral moments, beautifully crafted, and harmonised to express a compressed moment in time. Such sublime sonorities transcend descriptions such as ‘warm’, ‘glistening’ or ‘shimmering’, although these features of his choral works do suggest affinities with the sound worlds of Arvo Pärt or John Tavener, for instance.

However, Whitacre’s fluid lines and blossoming harmonies give his music its own highly personal and irresistible magic.

“The only fully professional church choir in Canada, and, clearly, an energetic and inspiring team.” BBC Music Magazine

Reviews

October 2010

...a choir long on experience and comfortable in its own collective skin. The mainly vibrato-less singing is warmly blended, with spot-on pitching, and a welcome focus on elucidating text and structure without gimmicky effect-making.

September 2010

The fresh-sounding Toronto-based Elora Festival Singers obviously love this optimistic and transparently honest music...Tuning is always spot-on and Nigel Edison draws a wide dynamic range from his singers. Climaxes are never coarse and the church acoustic is used to sublime effect...This stimulating and superb disc is a bargain and an absolute"'must-have".

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