Bryars: A Native Hill / Nally, The Crossing

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Label
Navona
Release Date
June 25, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRYARS, GAVIN
    • PERFORMER
      The Crossing, Nally
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 25, 2021
    • UPC
      896931006477
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NV6347
    • LABEL
      Navona
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. The Sense of the Past

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    2. No. 2. The Path

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    3. No. 3. Sea Level

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    4. No. 4. The Pool

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: Steven Bradshaw, Daniel Taylor, John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    5. No. 5. The Road

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    6. No. 6. The Music of Streams

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    7. No. 7. Questions

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    8. No. 8. Top Soil

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    9. No. 9. The Hill

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    10. No. 10. Animals and Birds

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    11. No. 11. Shadow

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: Maren Montalbano, Steven Bradshaw, John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally

    12. No. 12. At Peace

      Composer: Gavin Bryars

      Ensemble: The Crossing

      Performer: John Grecia

      Conductor: Donald Nally


Navona Records presents A NATIVE HILL from Philadelphia’s professional chamber choir, The Crossing. This monumental unaccompanied work is the result of a collaboration with composer Gavin Bryars, whose previous work for The Crossing won them their first of two recent Grammy awards. With intimate knowledge of the individual voices and art of each singer, Bryars composed A NATIVE HILL to capitalize on the group’s unique sound, personality, and esprit de corps. A NATIVE HILL is based on American author and environmentalist Wendell Berry’s 1968 essay of the same name, which examines bucolic elements of rural life, suffused with deeper metaphysical and political implications. The new album is full of rich, complex vocal textures, dense chromatic clusters, and moments of profound simplicity, offering an opportunity to reflect on life’s timeless questions.