Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst and Other Choral Works
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-02-14
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
- i thank You God for most this amazing day (1999, TEXT: e.e. cummings)
- I hide myself (1991, TEXT: Emily Dickinson)
- Sleep (2000, TEXT: Charles Anthony Silvestri)
- Go, lovely Rose (1991, TEXT: Edmund Waller)
- When David Heard (1999, TEXT: II Samuel 18:33)
- hope, faith, life, love (1999, TEXT: e.e. cummings)
- Cloudburst (1993, TEXT: Octavio Paz)
- With a lily in your hand (1991, TEXT: Federico Garcia Lorca
- This Marriage (2004, TEXT: Jalal al-Din Rumi)
- Water Night (1995, TEXT: Octavio Paz)
- A Boy and a Girl (2002, TEXT: Octavio Paz)
- Her sacred spirit soars (2002, TEXT: Charles Anthony Silvestri)
- Lux aurumque (2000, TEXT: Edward Esch/Charles Anthony Silvestri)
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Free Music Review: Encore!
Hit: 4 Stars
Truly a masterpiece for choir! I am a choral amateur listener, as I just got into it: this is my first choral cd, but I must tell you that it was worth much more than I payed. A beautiful collection of songs by the very talented Eric Whitacre: his harmonies and suspensions will make you fall in love with the music.
Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst and Other Choral Works Poster
Eric Whitacre is one of the leading lights of the choral music scene. The 14 text-centered, emotionally-charged works on this well-filled disc suggest why. Outwardly conservative, his music is full of fascinating harmonic explorations, dynamic shifts, and rhythmic nuances that make them fun to sing and absorbing to listen to. The texts are drawn from poets of the stature of e.e. cummings, Octavio Paz, Garcia Lorca, and Emily Dickinson, among others. And they pack emotional power, as in When David Heard, whose Biblical text is illuminated by powerful tiered dynamics. He's adept at tonal contrasts as well, the soaring sopranos in Sleep have their counterparts in a firm bass line. In Cloudburst he adds piano and percussion to the unaccompanied chorus to dramatic effect, and in some works, such as Cummings' "hope, faith, life, love" he chooses to set only a handful of the poem's text, with harmonic movements and other unexpected twists focusing attention. The fine English chorus, Polyphony, is at their best here, clearly relishing the inventiveness of the music, and the sound is from Hyperion's top drawer. --Dan DavisEric Whitacre is one of the leading lights of the choral music scene. The 14 text-centered, emotionally-charged works on this well-filled disc suggest why. Outwardly conservative, his music is full of fascinating harmonic explorations, dynamic shifts, and rhythmic nuances that make them fun to sing and absorbing to listen to. The texts are drawn from poets of the stature of e.e. cummings, Octavio Paz, Garcia Lorca, and Emily Dickinson, among others. And they pack emotional power, as in When David Heard, whose Biblical text is illuminated by powerful tiered dynamics. He's adept at tonal contrasts as well, the soaring sopranos in Sleep have their counterparts in a firm bass line. In Cloudburst he adds piano and percussion to the unaccompanied chorus to dramatic effect, and in some works, such as Cummings' "hope, faith, life, love" he chooses to set only a handful of the poem's text, with harmonic movements and other unexpected twists focusing attention. The fine English chorus, Polyphony, is at their best here, clearly relishing the inventiveness of the music, and the sound is from Hyperion's top drawer. --Dan Davis
At the age of only 35, Eric Whitacre has already gained a phenomenal reputation in the United States. The Los Angeles Times described his music as having ?€~electric, chilling harmonies; works of unearthly beauty and imagination?€™ and his Water Night (included on this new recording) has become one of the most popular choral works of the last decade, and is one of the top-selling choral publications of all time.
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