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Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon - David Lang: The National Anthems & The Little Match Girl Passion (2016)

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Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon - David Lang: The National Anthems & The Little Match Girl Passion (2016)

David Lang - The National Anthems & The Little Match Girl Passion (2016)
Los Angeles Master Chorale; Calder Quartet; Grant Gershon, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 276 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 156 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral, Minimalism | Label: Cantaloupe Music | # CA21119 | Time: 00:56:25

Of the three Bang on a Can founder composers, David Lang’s music has always been the glassiest, the sparest, and for some listeners the most precious. In recent years, his aesthetic has become leaner still, paring down already simple material to gaunt extremes in something approaching neo-plainchant. The national anthems (note the lower case; nothing vainglorious here ) takes fragments of text from the anthems of all 193 United Nations member states and unfolds at speaking speed, with plenty of room for breaths between phrases and plenty of clarity to the words. It has the feel of sad and eerie intoning. The Los Angeles choir clinches the right sound for Lang – unflinching, spellbound – while the Calder Quartet gives sleek accompaniment. Also on the disc is a new choral version of Lang’s little match girl passion, the piece originally for four voices that won him the Pulitzer prize in 2008 and which, in the mouths of many, becomes a sort of collective prayer in the congregational tradition of Bach’s chorales.

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Master Chorale - Thomas Adès: Dante (2023)

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Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Master Chorale - Thomas Adès: Dante (2023)

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Master Chorale - Thomas Adès: Dante (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks, digital booklet) - 475 MB| MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 234 MB
1:31:41 | Classical | Label: Nonesuch

Thomas Adès' Dante-a ballet score in three parts based on Dante Alighieri's La Divina Commedia-was recorded by the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel at a concert performance last spring at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Nonesuch Records releases the album, the work's premiere audio recording, on April 21, 2023. Dante was first performed at the Royal Opera House as part of Wayne McGregor's The Dante Project for the Royal Ballet, with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and with designs by visual artist Tacita Dean. The piece's three parts are "Inferno, " "Purgatorio, " and "Paradiso. "Dante is inspired by the alternately chilling and sunlit landscapes of La Divina Commedia. Written in the fourteenth century, this seminal Italian poem recounts an initiatory journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise. McGregor and Adès bring the medieval Christian fantasy to life with a narrative arc about a young woman named Beatrice who embodies a promise of love and hope. Opéra National de Paris, where Dudamel is Music Director, performs The Dante Project this April and May; the London Philharmonic features Dante's first part performs "Inferno" performs on a February 22 concert program conducted by Adès.

Anne Akiko Meyers, Los Angeles Master Chorale & Grant Gershon - Mysterium (EP) (2022)

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Anne Akiko Meyers, Los Angeles Master Chorale & Grant Gershon - Mysterium (EP) (2022)

Anne Akiko Meyers, Los Angeles Master Chorale & Grant Gershon - Mysterium (EP) (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 89 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 46 Mb | 00:18:50
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Avie Records, Official Digital Download

Superstar violinist Anne Akiko Meyers’ imagination and ingenuity knows no bounds. Her idea to persuade leading living composer Morten Lauridsen to transform his choral masterpiece, O Magnum Mysterium, into a work for violin and choir is a masterstroke. Teaming up with conductor Grant Gershon – who first collaborated with Anne as chamber musicians over 40 years ago – and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, for whom Lauridsen was their first Composer in Residence, Anne rounds out this digital EP with three other arrangements for violin and chorus of ever-popular works by J. S. Bach. The result is gold dust for the holiday season.

Los Angeles Master Chorale & Eric Whitacre - The Sacred Veil (2020)

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Los Angeles Master Chorale & Eric Whitacre - The Sacred Veil (2020)

Los Angeles Master Chorale & Eric Whitacre - The Sacred Veil (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 293 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 188 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:42
Classical, Choral | Label: Signum Classics

The Sacred Veil – a project led by Eric Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri – was created following the passing of Charles’ wife, Julia in 2005. It represents a journey towards the answer for many questions, including whether departed loved ones are truly gone, and how can we mourn those we have lost whilst still moving forward? In Charles’ own words, the project became “a significant part of my journey toward healing and wholeness after great loss.”