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Director Christopher Lowrey announces the aim of this new chamber choir "to form the beating heart of professional choral music in the United States," and while the jury is still out on that, the blend and clarity of Lowrey's 23 handpicked singers announce a major new presence on the choral scene. Lowrey's concept for this, the group's debut album, is similarly ambitious. The Lamb of the title is Jesus Christ, but Lowrey's notes also propose a subtext from Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey (although Lowrey concedes that he has "not a little trepidation at the anticipated blowback from the theologically minded"). Listeners can decide for themselves how well this all works, but in the meantime, there is a fairly novel program that, as promised, weaves together music from Orlando Gibbons to Samuel Barber and even beyond; there are several contemporary works, and Joanna Marsh's Worthy Is the Lamb is a world premiere. Also novel is the presence of a pair of Agnus Dei mass movements by Bruckner and Poulenc, along with a rather placid arrangement of the spiritual Were You There. The result is a kaleidoscopic mixture of styles and materials, held together not only by the theme but also by Lowrey's control over the sound. The Alpha label finds an excellent sound environment at St. Paul's Parish Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a release that stands out from other similar releases. The album made classical best-seller charts in the spring of 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Album review
Director Christopher Lowrey announces the aim of this new chamber choir "to form the beating heart of professional choral music in the United States," and while the jury is still out on that, the blend and clarity of Lowrey's 23 handpicked singers announce a major new presence on the choral scene. Lowrey's concept for this, the group's debut album, is similarly ambitious. The Lamb of the title is Jesus Christ, but Lowrey's notes also propose a subtext from Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey (although Lowrey concedes that he has "not a little trepidation at the anticipated blowback from the theologically minded"). Listeners can decide for themselves how well this all works, but in the meantime, there is a fairly novel program that, as promised, weaves together music from Orlando Gibbons to Samuel Barber and even beyond; there are several contemporary works, and Joanna Marsh's Worthy Is the Lamb is a world premiere. Also novel is the presence of a pair of Agnus Dei mass movements by Bruckner and Poulenc, along with a rather placid arrangement of the spiritual Were You There. The result is a kaleidoscopic mixture of styles and materials, held together not only by the theme but also by Lowrey's control over the sound. The Alpha label finds an excellent sound environment at St. Paul's Parish Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a release that stands out from other similar releases. The album made classical best-seller charts in the spring of 2024.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:10:17
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Ensemble Altera Christopher Lowrey
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical
2024 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2024 Ensemble Altera
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