Title: Lamb's Journey - Choral Narrative from Gibbons Artist: Ensemble Altera Label: Alpha Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 3701624510292 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2024-03-22 Number of Discs: 1
The American countertenor Christopher Lowrey founded the vocal ensemble Altera 'to form the beating heart of professional choral music in the United States'. Now regarded as one of the finest and most enterprising choirs on the North American continent, Altera has devised this musical tour through sacred territories which focuses on epic narratives from various periods, from Renaissance music to the present day. The programme includes timeless works by Gibbons, Lotti, Scheidt and Bruckner, as well as twentieth-century compositions by Poulenc, Messiaen and others. Barber's celebrated Adagio sits alongside the moving Salvator Mundi, taken from Herbert Howells's Requiem. Not forgetting three world premiere recordings of works written or arranged for Altera by composers Joanna Marsh, Zuzanna Koziej, and Michael Garrepy, who has arranged Were you there?
Tracks: 1.1 Worthy is the Lamb 1.2 Requiem~Salvator Mundi 1.3 Lamb 1.4 Mass in G Major~Agnus Dei 1.5 Responsoria Tenebrae~O vos omnes 1.6 Drop, drop, slow tears 1.7 Crucifixus a 8 1.8 Mass in E minor~Agnus Dei 1.9 Were you there 1.10 Surrexit Christus hodie 1.11 O clap your hands 1.12 Panis angelicus 1.13 O sacrum convivium! 1.14 O salutaris Hostia 1.15 Agnus Dei based on Adagio for Strings
