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Dacapo present scintillating vocal music from the Pacific Rim featuring composers and poets from China, Japan, California, New Zealand, Australia and one ancient Anglo-Saxon Seafarer.
This is unusual and lovely music sung by the Grammy Award winning vocal ensemble, Ars Nova Copenhagen, under their conductor Paul Hillier, and with early harp virtuoso Andrew Lawrence-King.
These are composers who have consciously looked beyond Western aesthetic traditions to create a musical language with a variety of different reference points. Some have found their sources close at hand in the aboriginal cultures of the land where they live, while others have looked towards the religions and music of Asia. The results are still concert music—not musical exotica—but the direction from which their ideas have arrived gives their music a sense of openness and receptivity.
Lou Silver Harrison: Mass for St. Cecilia's Day
Introitus
Kyrie
Gloria
Graduale
Alleluia
Offertory
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Communion
Hymn
Ite
Ross Edwards: Sacred Kingfisher Psalms
Sacred Kingfisher Psalms
Jack Body: 5 Lullabies
No. 1.
No. 2.
No. 3.
No. 4.
No. 5.
Traditional: The Seafarer (after Sola Liu's The Afterlife of Li Jiantong)
The Seafarer (after Sola Liu's The Afterlife of Li Jiantong)
Anne Boyd: As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
February 2012
“Anne Boyd's As I crossed a bridge of dreams (1975) gives its title to the CD and, with its rapt sostenuto, steals the show. Almost endlessly sustained, immaculately imagined, and - like everything else here - admirably performed.”
February 2012
“This is an intriguing disc of barely known and often very beautiful music by composers from Australisia, the United States and China. It would be hard, I think, to imagine music more transparent than that of Lou Harrison's Mass for Saint Cecilia's Day...The music's transparency and long-breathed quality give every opportunity for the voices of Ars Nova to shine in a very particular way, really as chamber soloists.”
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Introitus
