Esenvalds: Translations / Sperry, Portland State Chamber Choir

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
March 13, 2020
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ESENVALDS, ERIKS
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 13, 2020
    • UPC
      747313412471
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8574124
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. O salutaris hostia

      Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds

      Ensemble: Portland State Chamber Choir

      Performer: Kate Ledington, Maeve Stier

      Conductor: Ethan Sperry

    2. The Heavens' Flock

      Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds

      Ensemble: Portland State Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Ethan Sperry

    3. Translation

      Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds

      Ensemble: Portland State Chamber Choir

      Performer: Maeve Stier, Celine Clark, Juan Castaneda, Jonathan Roberts, David Walters

      Conductor: Ethan Sperry

    4. My Thoughts

      Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds

      Ensemble: Portland State Chamber Choir

      Performer: Anna Krytenberg, Savannah Panah, Gina Rizk

      Conductor: Ethan Sperry

    5. Vineta

      Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds

      Ensemble: Portland State Chamber Choir

      Performer: Joel Bluestone, Florian Conzetti

      Conductor: Ethan Sperry

    6. Legend of the Walled-In Woman

      Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds

      Ensemble: Portland State Chamber Choir

      Performer: Rebecca Yakos, Savannah Panah, Bryanna West, Jereme Wilkie, Ulises Zavaleta, Jorden Moss, Rex Bennett

      Conductor: Ethan Sperry

    7. In paradisum

      Composer: Ēriks Ešenvalds

      Ensemble: Portland State Chamber Choir

      Performer: Charles Noble, Marilyn de Oliveira

      Conductor: Ethan Sperry



The multi-award-winning Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds’ 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 hand bells in ‘Translation,’ and the angelic use of the viola and cello in ‘In paradisum’ he creates music of ravishing refinement. In ‘Legend of the Walled-In Woman’ Esenvalds transcribes and employs an authentic Albanian folk song.

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REVIEW:

Ethan Sperry’s immaculate Portland State Chamber Choir clearly relish the luscious choral textures, which often expand into 16 parts. The engineering captures with great clarity both this sense of spaciousness and the extreme dynamic range. All the solo vocal contributions are magnificent...A stunning, timely triumph, therefore, full of ravishing, transformative and deeply touching music.

– Gramophone