Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds
Performer: Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Trinity Brass
Conductor: Stephen Layton
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68083
Release: 2015
Size: 1.21 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. O salutaris hostia
02. The New Moon
03. Psalm 67
04. Trinity Te Deum
05. Northern Lights
06. The Heavens’ Flock
07. The Earthly Rose
Merton College Service
08. I. Magnificat
09. II. Nunc dimittis
10. Rivers of Light
11. Ubi caritas
12. Amazing Grace
13. O Emmanuel
14. Who Can Sail Without the Wind?
15. Stars
16. Only in Sleep
The intensely practical choral music of the young Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds is steadily gaining appreciation across the world. The works on this new album owe their genesis to commissions from the United States, England and northern Europe and encompass ethereal expressions of uniquely arctic phenomena (listen for wine glasses turned—and tuned—to wondrously simple but devastating effect within the choral texture), American ballads and several works in the ‘Anglican tradition’, the fruits of the composer’s recent residency at Trinity College Cambridge.
Trinity College Choir Cambridge here returns the compliment, as it were, with superlative performances of these varied and engaging works, all recorded under the watchful eye of the composer and conductor Stephen Layton.