EMR CD055 | DETAILS
  EMR CD055
   
 

RADIANCE
Choral works by Paul Carr, Morten Lauridsen, Bob Chilcott, Ola Gjeilo and Eric Whitacre


  English Arts Chorale | English Arts Orchestra
Leslie Olive (dir.)
   
   

‘Radiance’ is an apt title for this disc of luminous, searingly beautiful and lyrical choral music from the English Arts Chorale and the English Arts Orchestra. Paul Carr’s work has graced EM Records’ releases and the English Music Festival often before, and we are delighted to feature for the first time works by Morten Lauridsen, Bob Chilcott, Ola Gjeilo and Eric Whitacre. This is haunting, glowing music of intensity and power which also remains highly accessible and attractive.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
Paul Carr (b.1961)
‘STABAT MATER’ (2017) (World Première recording)
1. I. ‘At the Cross’  
2. II. ‘Who would not weep?’  
3. III. ‘O thou Mother, fount of love!’  
4. IV. ‘All I ask of thee’  
5. V. ‘Thy grief divine’  
6. VI. ‘In Paradise with Thee’  
       
Morten Lauridsen (b.1943)
7. ‘SURE ON THIS SHINING NIGHT’ (2005)  
       
Bob Chilcott (b.1955)
8. ‘IRISH BLESSING’ (1997)  
       
Ola Gjeilo (b.1978)
9. ‘THE GROUND’ (2008)  
       
Bob Chilcott
10. ‘LONDONDERRY AIR’ (arr.) (1999)  
       
Eric Whitacre (b.1970)
11. ‘THIS MARRIAGE’ (2004)  
       
Ola Gjeilo
12. ‘UBI CARITAS’ (2007)  
       
Paul Carr
13. ‘THE LAMB’ (2015) (World Première recording)  
       
Morten Lauridsen
14. ‘O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM’ (1994)  

 

REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
EMR CD023 | THE STRAD