The Lamb's Journey: A Choral Narrative from Gibbons to Barber

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?

1: Worthy Is the Lamb
2: Salvator Mundi
3: The Lamb
4: Agnus Dei
5: O Vos Omnes
6: Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
7: Crucifixus in 8 Parts
8: Agnus Dei
9: Were You There?
10: Surrexit Christus Hodie, SSWV18
11: O Clap Your Hands
12: Panis Angelicus
13: O Sacrum Convivium!
14: O Salutaris Hostia
15: Agnus Dei

Composer: Eriks Esenvalds, Samuel Barber, Olivier Messiaen, Francis Poulenc, Francis Grier, Anton Bruckner, Pawel Lukaszewski, Herbert Howells, Orlando Gibbons, Kenneth Leighton, Samuel Scheidt, Joanna Marsh, Antonio Lotti, Zuzanna Koziej

Number of Discs: 1

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