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Kansas City Chorale's Grammy-winning CD, Life and Breath
- Item Number
- 130
- Estimated Value
- 18 USD
- Leading Bid
- 15 USD
- Number of Bids
- 3 - Bid History
Item Description
Although he writes in all genres, Rene Clausen is today one of America's most popular choral composers, and for more than twenty years he has been the conductor of the internationally acclaimed Concordia Choir of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. On this release, choral works by Clausen are performed by the Kansas City Chorale, another choir of great international renown, whose recording, with the Phoenix Chorale, of Grechaninov's Passion Week won a Grammy award in 2008, in the category Best Classical Recording, Engineering. 'Set me as a Seal' is arguably the composer's best-known work, and has long been popular at weddings, funerals, and in the concert repertoire. Clausen has described the work as 'various kinds of discussions between God and humans, both from the human aspect and from the God aspect, so a lot of variations… of love, of disappointment, of anxiety, of doubt'. All that hath life and breath is one of Clausen's earliest works, and a favourite of choirs across the world. The Mass for Double Choir was commissioned by the Kansas City Chorale. The composer, who had never written a mass before, looked on it as an 'interesting challenge'. In the work emotions ebb and flow kaleidoscopically, taking the listener from the strength of the unison writing at the opening, to the sorrowful falling lines of the Crucifixion of Christ and the bubbling, dancing figures for the Resurrection. Expressions of praise spill forward atop one another in the Sanctus, a choir of angels too exuberant to be contained.
Track listing:
- All that hath life and breath, praise ye the Lord (1978)
- O magnum mysterium (2009)
- The Tyger (2009)
- The Lamb (2009)
- Mass for Double Choir (2011)
- Magnificat (1988)
- O vos omnes (1986)
- Set me as a seal (1989)
Item Special Note
The winning bidder's credit card will be charged an additional amount for shipping and handling.
Donated By:
Charles Bruffy and Don Loncasty
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