Praised for it's versatility and keen interest in new music, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and it's chief conductor Fredrik Malmberg present a programme devoted to a cappella works in a modern yet accessible style by American or American-born composers. The album opens with a triptych based of adaptations of ancient Gaelic poems, Reincarnations by Samuel Barber, known for his opulent, post-romantic language as expressed in his famous Adagio for Strings.Jeff Beal, one of Hollywood's most prolific and respected composers, wrote The Salvage Men, based on texts by Oscar Wilde and contemporary Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kay Ryan. This cycle, according to Beal, offers 'a wholly fresh, contemporary view on the themes of transformation and our chosen response to pain'.Daniel Nelson's The New Colossus, based on a text by the 19th-century writer Emma Lazarus inspired by the Statue of Liberty, aims to convey musically the majesty and beauty inherent in the idea of inclusion. Finally, two works by Eric Whitacre, a composer whose works have become popular with vocal ensembles across America: A Boy and a Girl, a delicate piece based on a poem by Octavio Paz, and Three Songs of Faith, on texts by E.E. Cummings, a cycle that presents Whitacre's personal faith and his reflections on the spiritual and the unknowable.

Tracklist:

Reincarnations, Op. 16~
Mary Hynes
Reincarnations, Op. 16~
Anthony O'Daly
Reincarnations, Op. 16~
The Coolin
Salvage Men~
A Very Long Moment
Salvage Men~
Spiderweb
Salvage Men~
Virga
Salvage Men~
Age
Salvage Men~
Salvage
New Colossus
Boy and a Girl
Three Songs of Faith~
I will wade out
Three Songs of Faith~
Hope, faith, life, love
Three Songs of Faith~
I Thank You God for most this amazing day

UPC: 7318599925998
Label: Bis
Release Date: 11.1.24
Format: CD

Barber / Whitacre / Eric Ericson Chamber Choir - Salvage Men (Hybr) (CD)