Album info
Album-Release:
2020
HRA-Release:
13.03.2020
Label: Naxos
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Artist: Portland State University Chamber Choir, Ethan Sperry
Composer: Eriks Esenvalds (1977)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Ēriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977):
- 1 O salutaris hostia 03:36
- 2 The Heavens' Flock 04:29
- 3 Translation 04:44
- 4 My Thoughts 09:30
- 5 Vineta 12:02
- 6 Legend of the Walled-In Woman 11:45
- 7 In paradisum 12:52
Info for Translations
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. 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 The Legend of the Walled-In Woman Ešenvalds transcribes and employs an authentic Albanian folk song.
Portland State Chamber Choir
Ethan Sperry, direction
No biography found.
Booklet for Translations