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Sleeper’s Prayer: Choral Music from North America | Delphian DCD34232

Sleeper’s Prayer: Choral Music from North America

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Label: Delphian

Cat No: DCD34232

Barcode: 0801918342325

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 22nd May 2020

Contents

Artists

Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas (solo organ)
Alex Little (organ)
Tom Fetherstonhaugh (organ)
Claire Wickes (flute)
Merton Brass

Conductor

Benjamin Nicholas

Works

Betinis, Abbie

Cedit, Hyems

Glass, Philip

Satyagraha
» Conclusion (Act 3) (arr. for solo organ)

Lang, David

Again (after Ecclesiastes)
if i sing (after psalm 101)
sleeper's prayer

Larsen, Libby

I will sing and raise a psalm

Muhly, Nico

A Hymn on the Nativity
A Song of Ephrem the Syrian
Hudson Preludes
» no.1 Take care
Senex puerum portabat
The Revd Mustard His Installation Prelude

Paulus, Stephen

The Road Home

Traditional

Deep River (arr. Gerre Hancock)

Artists

Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas (solo organ)
Alex Little (organ)
Tom Fetherstonhaugh (organ)
Claire Wickes (flute)
Merton Brass

Conductor

Benjamin Nicholas

About

In barely a decade of existence, Merton College’s new choral foundation has ambitiously redefined the choral landscape of the great university city of Oxford through its twin commitment to excellence and innovation.

Now, focusing entirely on American music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, this latest in a series of thematically conceived recordings begins as a striking ‘double portrait’ of two composers who have written or arranged works especially for the choir. David Lang’s austere choral postminimalism, informed by a background of Jewish liturgy and thought, provides a striking foil to Nico Muhly’s more richly referential approach; Muhly fell in love with the Anglican tradition as a young chorister in Rhode Island.

Two solo organ works by Muhly, and a transcription from his mentor Philip Glass’s opera Satyagraha, widen the expressive gamut still further – from whimsical allusiveness to meditative calm – and are set in context alongside the more stylistically eclectic yet no less powerfully communicative sound-worlds of Libby Larsen and Abbie Betinis.

Two final choral items draw on pre-existing traditions of the spiritual and the Baptist hymnal in moving demonstration of the New World’s ability to honour its past while gazing firmly ahead.

‘Beautifully shaped performances by a fearless mixed choir’ – BBC Music Magazine, 2019

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