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On sale -50%The multi-award-winning Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds’ 21st-century choral sound is both exquisite and angular, and in this album he explores ideas of ‘translation’, legend and the divine. Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen, whose poetry is set on the first two tracks of this album, stated: ‘Art is translation. Art translates the ineffable into what we can see and hear, what we can experience, what touchesus. Art translates mystery for us without destroying that mystery'. With his expanded tonality and employment of shimmering singing handbells in Translation, and the angelic use of the viola and cello in In paradisum he creates music of ravishing refinement. In Legend of the Walled-In Woman Ešenvalds transcribes and employs an authentic Albanian folk song. © Naxos
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O salutaris hostia (2009) (Ēriks Ešenvalds)
Portland State University Chamber Choir (Soprano soloists : Kate Ledington & Maeve Stier) - Ethan Sperry, Conductor - Ēriks Ešenvalds, Composer - Thomas Aquinas, Lyricist
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The Heavens' Flock (2014) (Ēriks Ešenvalds)
Portland State University Chamber Choir - Ethan Sperry, Conductor - Ēriks Ešenvalds, Composer - Paulann Petersen, Lyricist
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Translation (2016) (Ēriks Ešenvalds)
Portland State University Chamber Choir (Soloists : Maeve Stier, Soprano - Celine Clark, Alto - Juan Castañeda, Tenor - Jonathan Roberts, Bass) - David Walters, Singing Handbells - Ethan Sperry, Conductor - Ēriks Ešenvalds, Composer - Paulann Petersen, Lyricist
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My Thoughts (2019) (Ēriks Ešenvalds)
Portland State University Chamber Choir (Soloists Soprano Descants : - Anna Krytenberg, Savannah Panah, Gina Rizk) - Ethan Sperry, Conductor - Ēriks Ešenvalds, Composer - Simeon Ivanovich Antonov, Lyricist
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Vineta (2009) (Ēriks Ešenvalds)
Portland State University Chamber Choir - Joel Bluestone, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Chimes - Florian Conzetti, Vibraphone, Suspended Cymbal, Bass Drum - Ethan Sperry, Conductor - Ēriks Ešenvalds, Composer - Wilhelm Müller, Lyricist
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Legend of the Walled-In Woman (2005) (Ēriks Ešenvalds)
Portland State University Chamber Choir (Soloists : Rebecca Yakos & Savannah Panah, Sopranos - Bryanna West, Alto - Jereme Wilkie & Ulises Zavaleta, Tenors - Jorden Moss, Baritone - Rex Bennett, Bass) - Ethan Sperry, Conductor - Ēriks Ešenvalds, Composer - Traditional (Albanian folk song and Vendit Tem ('My Land') by Martin Camaj, translated into English by Robert Elsie
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In Paradisum (Ēriks Ešenvalds)
Portland State University Chamber Choir - Charles Noble, Viola - Marilyn de Oliveira, Cello - Ethan Sperry, Conductor - Eriks Esenvalds, Composer - Mass text
(C) 2020 Naxos (P) 2020 Naxos
Album review
The multi-award-winning Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds’ 21st-century choral sound is both exquisite and angular, and in this album he explores ideas of ‘translation’, legend and the divine. Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen, whose poetry is set on the first two tracks of this album, stated: ‘Art is translation. Art translates the ineffable into what we can see and hear, what we can experience, what touchesus. Art translates mystery for us without destroying that mystery'. With his expanded tonality and employment of shimmering singing handbells in Translation, and the angelic use of the viola and cello in In paradisum he creates music of ravishing refinement. In Legend of the Walled-In Woman Ešenvalds transcribes and employs an authentic Albanian folk song. © Naxos
Details of original recording : Recorded: January and June 2019 at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, Mt.Angel, Oregon (US)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:14
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Portland State University Chamber Choir
- Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds
- Label: Naxos
- Area: Lettonie
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Composers born after 1958
(C) 2020 Naxos (P) 2020 Naxos
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