Eric Ericson Chamber Choir: Beal: The Salvage Men – SUPER-AUDIO CD

Title: Beal: The Salvage Men
Artist: Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Label: Bis
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 7318599925998
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2024-11-01
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD

Praised for it’s versatility and keen interest in new music, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and it’s chief conductor Fredrik Malmberg present a programme devoted to a cappella works in a modern yet accessible style by American or American-born composers. The album opens with a triptych based of adaptations of ancient Gaelic poems, Reincarnations by Samuel Barber, known for his opulent, post-romantic language as expressed in his famous Adagio for Strings.Jeff Beal, one of Hollywood’s most prolific and respected composers, wrote The Salvage Men, based on texts by Oscar Wilde and contemporary Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kay Ryan. This cycle, according to Beal, offers ‘a wholly fresh, contemporary view on the themes of transformation and our chosen response to pain’.Daniel Nelson’s The New Colossus, based on a text by the 19th-century writer Emma Lazarus inspired by the Statue of Liberty, aims to convey musically the majesty and beauty inherent in the idea of inclusion. Finally, two works by Eric Whitacre, a composer whose works have become popular with vocal ensembles across America: A Boy and a Girl, a delicate piece based on a poem by Octavio Paz, and Three Songs of Faith, on texts by E.E. Cummings, a cycle that presents Whitacre’s personal faith and his reflections on the spiritual and the unknowable.

Tracks:
1.1 Reincarnations, Op. 16~1. Mary Hynes
1.2 Reincarnations, Op. 16~2. Anthony O’Daly
1.3 Reincarnations, Op. 16~3. The Coolin
1.4 Salvage Men~1. A Very Long Moment
1.5 Salvage Men~2. Spiderweb
1.6 Salvage Men~3. Virga
1.7 Salvage Men~4. Age
1.8 Salvage Men~5. Salvage
1.9 New Colossus
1.10 Boy and a Girl
1.11 Three Songs of Faith~1. I will wade out
1.12 Three Songs of Faith~2. Hope, faith, life, love
1.13 Three Songs of Faith~3. I Thank You God for most this amazing day