Playlist for Alley Stoughton on WMBR's Not Brahms and Liszt, Monday, February 1, 2021 (4-5:30pm)

For two choirs, two string ensembles, solo countertenor, and very long reverb. Stefan Görgner, Countertenor; Rupert Huber, Conductor. Texts are fragments of ancient Tibetan mantras.

Time:

4:47

Artist:

The Crossing [Toivo Tulev]

Song:

A child said, what is the grass

Album:

The Tower and the Garden

Format:

The Tower and the Garden [CD]

Misc:

[Composed 2015] • NEW • (Navona Records, 2021)

Comment:

Text by Walt Whitman.

Time:

5:05

Artist:

Chamber Choir of Europe & Morten Lauridsen [Morten Lauridsen]

Song:

Nocturnes for Chorus and Piano

Album:

Light Eternal – The Choral Music of Morten Lauridsen

Format:

Light Eternal – The Choral Music of Morten Lauridsen [CD]

Misc:

[Composed 2005/2008] • (Deutsche Grammophon, 2018)

Comment:

Morten Lauridsen, piano; Nicol Matt, conductor. Four nocturnes: I - Sa nuit d’été (text by Rainer Maria Rilke); II Soneto de la Noche (text by Pablo Neruda); III - Sure on this Shining Night (text by James Agee); IV - Epilogue: Voici le soir (text by Rilke).

Time:

5:24

Artist:

Notus [Sven-David Sandström]

Song:

The Giver of Stars

Album:

Of Radiance & Refraction

Format:

Of Radiance & Refraction [CD]

Misc:

[Composed 2015] • (Innova, 2018)

Comment:

Dominick DiOrio, director. Text by Amy Lowell.

Choral music by Ēriks Ešenvalds, Robert Moran, Morten Lauridsen, Sven-David Sandström, Andrew Smith & Toivo Tulev