Gjeilo / Phoenix Chorale / Bruffy: Northern Lights
Gjeilo / Phoenix Chorale / Bruffy: Northern Lights
Format: CD
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Artist: Gjeilo / Phoenix Chorale / Bruffy
Label: Chandos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 095115510025
Genre: Classical
The critically acclaimed, Arizona-based Phoenix Chorale originally focused on music of the Renaissance and baroque periods, but today is equally dedicated to the creation and performance of new music. On this disc the Choir performs choral works, and settings of sacred texts by the Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo. When he first heard Gjeilo's 'Ubi caritas,' Charles Bruffy was instantly hooked, finding the music 'refreshing and magnetic'. Bruffy brought Gjeilo's music to the Chorale and it's audiences, and the response was immediate. Soon after, Gjeilo was invited to be the Chorale's first Composer-in-Residence. 'Phoenix,' a setting of the Agnus Dei, is dedicated to Charles Bruffy and the Phoenix Chorale in honour of it's fiftieth anniversary. When Gjeilo first visited the choir in Arizona, he had never been to the desert before, and the 'quiet beauty and barrenness of the landscape' moved him deeply. He describes 'Phoenix' as 'symphonic in nature... one of those pieces where the text is very much the servant of the music, not the other way around'. In contrast, 'Northern Lights' takes it's inspiration from Gjeilo's homeland, Norway, and the 'terrible beauty' of the natural phenomenon that may be observed there. The music reflects the powerful and electric quality of the northern lights, which must have seemed both mesmerising and terrifying to people in the past when no one knew what they were, and superstition prevailed. The Phoenix Chorale made it's first appearance on Chandos in 2004 with 'Shakespeare in Song.' Since then it has released several recordings on the label, most notably the Grammy Winning 'Spotless Rose: Hymns to the Virgin Mary.'
Tracks:
1.1 The Ground, Pleni Sunt Caeli Et Terra Gloria Tua
1.2 Serenity, O Magnum Mysterium
1.3 Ubi Caritas
1.4 Northern Lights, Pulchra Es, Amica Mea
1.5 Dark Night of the Soul
1.6 The Spheres, Kyrie Eleison
1.7 Tota Pulchra Es
1.8 Prelude, Exsultate, Jubilate
1.9 Phoenix, Agnus Dei
1.10 Unicornis Captivatur
1.11 Evening Prayer
