The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Stephen Layton - Eriks Esenvalds: Northern Lights & Other Choral Works (2015)
Ēriks Ešenvalds - Northern Lights & Other Choral Works (2015)
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Stephen Layton, conductor
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Classical, Сontemporary, Choral | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68083 | Time: 01:07:46
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Stephen Layton, conductor
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 309 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 164 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Сontemporary, Choral | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68083 | Time: 01:07:46
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.
One of the chief pleasures of this CD is right at the beginning – the silvery duetting of Rachel Ambrose Evans and Hannah Partridge, sopranos in Trinity College Choir, in Eriks Ešenvalds’s O salutaris hostias. Their fluid delivery of the little grace notes is delectable, and Stephen Layton secures a perfect balance with the choir in the background.
Ešenvalds’s music, if not quite easy listening, is certainly audience-friendly. Even in the aggressive plaint against the world of day which opens The new moon the idiom is staunchly tonal, and in its second half the piece melts into a caressing lyricism, and has tuned wine glasses and chimes drizzled on it.
Some of the music here dates from Ešenvalds’s recent stint as Fellow Commoner at Trinity, including the abstemious Psalm 67 – where there’s more solid solo work from bass Michael Craddock – and the Te Deum, where the trombones and trumpets of Trinity Brass buffet the robust choral writing.
Half a dozen other singers step forward impressively from the pews to do solo duty in the other pieces, underlining what a force the Trinity choir has become, and the strength-in-depth it has developed, in the first eight years of Stephen Layton’s directorship.Review by Terry Blain, BBC Music Magazine
One critic has dubbed the music of Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds "relentless rapture," and it's true that the choral pieces here, mostly unaccompanied (a harp is a nice addition in three of them), do not vary widely in mood. But one can't blame Esenvalds for moving into what is clearly a wide-open space in the market between Baltic holy minimalism and the harmonic and philosophical warm bath of John Rutter's music. Esenvalds negotiates this happy medium very well, with just enough sentiment in the big soprano lines to make you feel good, but not enough to invite charges of schlock. The music has the spareness of the Baltic choral school even if it takes a few steps in the direction of conventional tonality, and Esenvalds responds to the various texts, some of them in English (he has attracted commissions in both Britain and the U.S.), through melodic shape more than through harmony or tempo. He couldn't have found a better set of collaborators than the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and its conductor, Stephen Layton, who amplify the music with intriguing effects in the chapel they know well. This can be safely recommended for those enamored of the accessible side of British choral music, and even for those who like Pärt and his friends.Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Stephen Layton - Eriks Esenvalds: Northern Lights & Other Choral Works (2015)
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Stephen Layton - Eriks Esenvalds: Northern Lights & Other Choral Works (2015)
Tracklist:
01. O salutaris hostia (03:30)
02. The new moon (04:13)
03. Psalm 67 (05:27)
04. Trinity Te Deum (06:40)
05. Northern Lights (05:55)
06. The heavens' flock (03:28)
07. The earthly rose (03:25)
08. Merton College Service - 1. Magnificat (03:39)
09. Merton College Service - 2. Nunc dimittis (02:44)
10. Rivers of light (05:34)
11. Ubi caritas (02:45)
12. Amazing grace (04:46)
13. O Emmanuel (02:43)
14. Who can sail without the wind? (03:04)
15. Stars (04:26)
16. Only in sleep (05:17)
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The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge; Stephen Layton - Eriks Esenvalds: Northern Lights & Other Choral Works (2015)
