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Beyond All Mortal Dreams – American A Cappella Choral Works

9/29/2023, 19 Tracks, 1:08:33

Featuring

  • Hannah Partridge
  • Ruby Dayan
  • Stephen Layton
  • Laurence Williams
  • Margaret Walker
  • The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
  • René Clausen
  • Steven Stucky
  • Ola Gjeilo
  • Frank Ferko
  • Edwin Fissinger
  • Healey Willan
  • Stephen Paulus
  • William Hawley

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Performer Biography

Stephen Layton, the conductor, has a discography ranging from Handel to contemporary composers like Pärt and Tavenner, and has received a Gramophone Award and two Grammy nominations.

Source: Booklet

Cultural Impact

The vast body of 20th-century American choral music is a flourishing business for music publishers in the USA.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Healey Willan, a British-Canadian composer, maintained strong ties to the Edwardian style of Stanford, Parry, and Finzi, and was commissioned by the Queen for her 1953 coronation.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Edwin Fissinger's 'Lux aeterna' was composed in 1982 and is dedicated to the memory of one of his composition students and his wife, who died in a car accident.

Source: Booklet

Historical Context

American choral music developed significantly in the 20th century, moving from German Romantic aesthetics to a more distinctive sound influenced by figures like Charles Ives.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, was recently voted the fifth best choir in the world by Gramophone magazine.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

William Hawley, a New York composer, rejected avant-garde methods to create a language that reintegrates emotional and spiritual elements of pre-20th-century classical music with modernist techniques.

Source: Booklet

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