Special offer. Rolling River: American Choral
Barber - Bernstein - Muhly - Shaw - Whitacre
Emily Coatsworth, Iestyn Davies, Dominic Wallis, Harry Swanson, Holly Sewell, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Graham Ross
Ross and Clare College Choir make a strong case for Bernstein’s stripped-down version of the Chichester Psalms. Organ, harp and percussion provide the accompaniment, and allied with youthful...
Special offer. Rolling River: American Choral
Barber - Bernstein - Muhly - Shaw - Whitacre
Emily Coatsworth, Iestyn Davies, Dominic Wallis, Harry Swanson, Holly Sewell, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Graham Ross
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Ross and Clare College Choir make a strong case for Bernstein’s stripped-down version of the Chichester Psalms. Organ, harp and percussion provide the accompaniment, and allied with youthful...
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Choral singing enjoys astonishing vitality in the United States of America. Alongside Bernstein’s prodigious Chichester Psalms, Barber’s Two Choruses, and Erb’s much-loved arrangement of Shenandoah, Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge introduce us to the colourful works of the younger generation of composers on the other side of the Atlantic. A splendid panorama of American choral music from the post-war period to the present day.
Contents and tracklist
- Emily Coatsworth, Iestyn Davies, Dominic Wallis, Harry Swanson
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
- Dominic Wallis
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
- Arr. by James Erb
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
- Emily Coatsworth, Holly Sewell
- Choir of Clare College Cambridge
- Graham Ross
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Awards and reviews
June 2023
Ross and Clare College Choir make a strong case for Bernstein’s stripped-down version of the Chichester Psalms. Organ, harp and percussion provide the accompaniment, and allied with youthful voices, light on vibrato, produce an altogether leaner, more transparent aesthetic impression than the fuller orchestral version.
May 2023
Light-footed and gilded-bright in the Bernstein, elsewhere the choir are at their best in a sequence that moves from Higdon’s glistening, gauzy O magnum mysterium for choir, flutes, crystal glass and chimes, through Caroline Shaw’s airy psalm-setting and the swallow, with its wordless melodic contrails, to arrive at Eric Whitacre’s rhapsodic Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine.
