The Crossing - It Is Time (2011)
The Crossing - It Is Time (2011)
Contemporary Classical, Choral | Navona NV5845 | 2011 | 64:49 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Interactive Multimedia Content | Various File Hosts | 407 MB
The Crossing, Donald Nally, conductor, John Grecia, piano
Contemporary Classical, Choral | Navona NV5845 | 2011 | 64:49 | EAC (FLAC, cue, log) | Full Scans | Interactive Multimedia Content | Various File Hosts | 407 MB
The Crossing, Donald Nally, conductor, John Grecia, piano
Featuring five commissioned works that garnered great critical acclaim when premiered, and featuring the poetry of two of the twentieth century's most important poets - Paul Celan and Philip Levine - It is Time is a must-have recording. Some of the most creative compositional voices of our time - Kile Smith, Paul Fowler, David Shapiro, Kirsten Broberg, Frank Havrøy, and Erhard Karkoschka - take you on an artistic journey that calls on the virstuosity of The Crossing; impeccably sung and beautifully expressed, this is a record of "what's happening now" in choral music.
Donald Nally’s choir, The Crossing, occupies a unique niche in the musical ecosystem: Its singers perform new and unfamiliar music for a small chamber choir. ... The Crossing presents novel, beautiful, complex music that requires precise coordination and first-class voices.
All of the music recorded here—and in fact the choir’s entire repertoire—is contemporary. Much of it is quite beautiful by any standard, and there is hardly a measure of it that is not compelling, or mesmerizing, or thought-provoking, or challenging in the best sense of that word. Nally describes it as postmodern, a term sometimes associated with an aesthetic of cheeky reactionism, but one feels little of the ironic or parodic in what these composers offer. In fact, Nally comments on modern music’s rejection of overt emotion in his interview, and argues that many composers of postmodern music are again concerned with reaching the listener directly. That is borne out here. True, the idioms are often daring as much as impassioned, but it would be a sad oversight for lovers of fine singing, interested in the future of choral music, to miss exploring these remarkable compositional voices. Nally has had great success in building loyal audiences for this music in Philadelphia, based in large part on their trust in the integrity of what he is doing. These performances are eloquent advocates for these works.
This enhanced CD contains multimedia interactive content. Just click on TheCrossing.exe in the Multimedia Interactive Content folder to access booklet, scores, composers bios etc.
Track List:
David Shapiro
1. It is Time 6:32
2. The Years from You to Me 7:12
Kyle Smith
3. Where Flames a Word: Before Your Late Face 3:25
4. Where Flames a Word: Conversation in the Mountains 6:14
5. Where Flames a Word: I Know You, You are the Deeply Bowed 2:06
Paul Fowler
6. Breath 15:21
Frank Havrøy
7. Psalm 5:52
Erhard Karkoschka
8. Variationen mit Celan Gedichten III: Sie kammt ihr Haar "Wiegenlied" 7:59
9. Variationen mit Celan Gedichten III: Grabschrift fur Francois 4:47
Kirsten Broberg
10. Breathturn 5:22
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Read more about The Crossing here.
Read Fanfare Magazine interview with Donald Nally here.
3% recovery record is included.
Of related interest:
The Crossing - I Want To Live (2013) Link
Sven-David Sandström - Nordic Sounds (2010) Link
Kammerchor I Vocalisti - Domine Deus (2011) Link
Musica Sacra - Monk and the Abbess (1996) Link
Musica Sacra - Of Eternal Light (1993) Link
Chanticleer 4 CD: How Sweet the Sound (2004), Our American Journey (2002), Mysteria (1995), Colors of Love (1999) Link
More contemporary American and European music is available at my blog.