Composer: Hildegard von Bingen, Sungji Hong, Gabriel Jackson, James MacMillan, Andrew Smith, Kile Smith
Performer: iSing Silicon Valley, Estelí Gomez, Cheryl Ann Fulton
Conductor: Jennah Delp Somers
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Avie
Catalogue: AV2602
Release: 2023
Size: 927 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. MacMillan: Os mutorum
02. Jackson: Ubi flumen praesulis
03. Hildegard: O virtus sapientae
04. Smith K: Monstra Te Esse Matrem
05. Hong: Lux Aeterna
06. anon.: O Maria, stella maris
07. anon.: Salve virgo virginum
08. Antiphoner: O Columba (chant arr. for harp by Cheryl Ann Fulton)
09. Smith A: Ave Regina Caelorum
10. Smith A: Ave Maria
11. Smith A: Regina caeli
12. Smith K: Psalm 113
13. Duncan, Bashford: chorea lucis
iSing Silicon Valley, the inspirational Bay Area-based girls’ choir, emerged from the darkness of the pandemic to find love & light in this recording of sacred music both ancient and new, music that transcends and heals, with glorious sonorities by turns rapturous and haunting.
iSing’s spirit of diversity shines through on love & light. From O Sapientie, the ecstatic chant by Hildegard of Bingen to Sir James MacMillan’s gravity defying Os Mutorum, Lux Aeterna by South Korean Guggenheim Fellow Sungji Hong and chorea lucis (dance of light) by California-based multi-disciplinary composer Kenyon Duncan – and many more – every work on love & light recalls an emotion, instinct or value that came to feel significant, even urgent, during the separation imposed during the pandemic.
iSing’s collaborators on love & light are virtuosa harpist Cheryl Fulton, and the versatile GRAMMY Award winning, soprano Esteli Gomez (Roomful of Teeth).
Love & light is released in celebration of iSing’s 10th anniversary.