Songs of Smaller Creatures and other American choral works
CDR 90000 131
24 bit digital recording
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 60'42"
Tracks: 24
Booklet pages: 28
© 2012 Cedille Records
Received: 10 July 2012
Listen: Abbie Betinis: a noiseless, patient spider (Toward Sunshine, Toward Freedom: Songs of Smaller Creatures) (track 2, 2:00-2:56)
Grant Park Chorus
Christopher Bell, conductor
Abbie Betinis (born 1980):
Toward Sunshine, Toward Freedom: Songs of Smaller Creatures (first recording)
1 the bees' song
Hanna Dixon, soprano
2 a noiseless patient spider
Susan Nelson, soprano
3 envoi
Lee Kesselman (born 1951):
Buzzings: Three Pieces about Bees (first recording)
4 To make a prairie
5 A Bee his burnished Carriage
6 Bee! I'm expecting you!
Eric Whitacre (born 1970):
7 When David Heard
Peter Sovitsky, tenor
Stacy Garrop (born 1969):
Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy (first recording)
8 Now, by this moon, before this moon shall wane
9 Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
10 I shall forget you presently, my dear
David Del Tredici (born 1937):
11 Acrostic Song from Final Alice
Amy Conn, soprano
Ned Rorem (born 1923):
Seven Motets for the Church's Year
12 While All Things Were in Quiet Silence
13 Before the Morning Star Begotten
14 Lay Up For Yourselves
15 Praise Him Who Was Crucified
16 God Is Gone Up
17 Today the Holy Spirit Appeared
Katherine Gray Noon, soprano
18 Rejoice We All in the Lord
Paul Crabtree (born 1960):
Five Romantic Miniatures (first recording)
19 Abe
20 Lisa
21 Homer
22 Marge
Hoss Brock, tenor
23 Homer
Eric Whitacre:
24 Sleep
Conducted by Christopher Bell, Chicago's Grant Park Chorus is 'as fine a symphony chorus as any to be found anywhere in the nation' (Chicago Tribune). Celebrating its fiftieth season, the chorus makes its a cappella CD debut with an all-American program of eight imaginative, moving, and sometimes whimsical works written between 1975 and 2005, including four world premieres.
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