The American composer Richard Moriarty (born in Boston in 1946) spent his professional life as a pathologist, taking up composition upon his retirement as a student of Adolphus Hailstork and Richard Danielpour. His deeply felt orchestral song-cycle We That Wait, using poems from the American Civil War written by women, and the expansive, exuberant Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women, are both grand statements in a proud American tradition of Neo-Romanticism, accessible, direct and sincere. Of the premiere performance, one reviewer wrote: "Adsum-Celebrating Women was a tour de force, whose title comes from the Roman rite of ordination when candidates are called by name and answer "Adsum- Present!" It was sung with passion and beauty..." (M.D. Ridge)

Tracklist:

We That Wait: No. 1, He Went As Soldiers
We That Wait: No. 2, Beat! Beat! Drums!
We That Wait: No. 3, We Have Parted
We That Wait: No. 4, They Dropped Like Flakes
We That Wait: No. 5, After Great Pain
We That Wait: No. 6, Somebody's Darling
We That Wait: No. 7, Prayer For Peace
Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women: I. Kyrie
Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women: II. Gloria
Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women: III. Credo
Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women: IV. Adsum
Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women: V. Magnificat
Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women: VI. Sanctus
Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women: VII. Consecration
Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women: VIII. Agnus Dei
Missa Adsum! Celebrating Women: IX. Ite, Missa Est

UPC: 5060113445032
Label: Toccata
Release Date: 2.15.19
Format: CD

Moriarty / Soloviy / Ukrainian Festival Orchestra - Missa Adsum Celebrating Women (CD)