This album features a collection of sacred music by Arvo Pärt, Julia Wolfe, and Caroline Shaw, interspersed with songs from the Laudario di Cortona, Italy.
Performer Biography
Paul Hillier, the chief conductor of ARS NOVA Copenhagen, is also the founding director of the Hilliard Ensemble and Theatre of Voices, and has received multiple awards including two Grammys.
Performer Biography
ARS NOVA Copenhagen, founded in 1979, is recognized as one of the world's finest vocal ensembles, specializing in Renaissance polyphonic choral music and new vocal music.
Historical Context
The original singers of the Laudario di Cortona were members of confraternities who held meetings to sing spiritual songs and sometimes went on singing processions through town and countryside.
Composition History
The Laudario di Cortona, an extensive collection of 13th-century songs, was rediscovered in 1876 by a librarian who found the manuscript under a stairway in a room used for storing kindling wood and coal.
Interpretation
ARS NOVA Copenhagen's approach to performing the Laudario di Cortona songs adapts them to the ensemble's voices and to presentation in a modern concert, with arrangements by Paul Hillier.
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