Whitacre: Hope Faith Life Love

Junges Vokalensemble Hannover, Klaus-Jürgen Etzold

Whitacre: Lux aurumque Hope, faith, life, love Cloudburst Five Hebrew Love Songs Sleep With a lily in your hand Alleluia The Seal Lullaby Nox Aurumque She Weeps Over Rahoon Oculi Ominum Water Night This Marriage Her sacred spirit soars

Eric Whitacre has a sure instinct when it comes to writing music beyond any kind of avant-gardism in the 21st century: he is representative of a generation of composers who consider tonality and music’s accessibility a crucial feature of their works. The Junges Vokalensemble Hannover translates this instinct into sound, and unfolds the compositions’ colourfulness with an exceptional level of artistic mastery. The works are written with the clear ideals of performability and feasibility in the composer’s mind, making Whitacre’s music particularly interesting to ambitioned non-professional choirs such as the Junges Vokalensemble Hannover. Probably the best-known of Whitacre’s works recorded on this disc is his Lux Aurumque. This work was composed in 2001 and sets to music the poem Light and Gold by the American poet Edward Esch, a meditation on the birth of Christ and the light. Hope, Faith, Life, Love..., Cloudburst, and Five Hebrew Love Songs are also recorded on the present disc.

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