Garrop: Terra Nostra / Alltop, Uniting Voices, Northwestern University Choir & Orchestra

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Label
Cedille
Release Date
April 22, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Janis Kepitis
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, Northwestern University Chorale
    • PERFORMER
      Alice Millar Chapel Cho
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 22, 2024
    • UPC
      735131922722
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CDR 227
    • LABEL
      Cedille
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I, "Creation of the World": In the Beginning (Chorus, Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michelle Areyzaga, Leah Dexter, Jesse Donner

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    2. Part I, "Creation of the World": God's World (Chorus)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    3. Part I, "Creation of the World": On Thine Own Child (Children)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Uniting Voices, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    4. Part I, "Creation of the World": Smile O Voluptuous Cool-Breathed Earth! (Baritone)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Govertsen

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    5. Part I, "Creation of the World": A Blade of Grass (Chorus, Children)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Uniting Voices, Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    6. Part II, "The Rise of Humanity": Locksley Hall (Tenor, Chorus)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jesse Donner

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    7. Part II, "The Rise of Humanity": Railways 1846 (Men of the Chorus)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    8. Part II, "The Rise of Humanity": A Song of Speed (Baritone, Chorus)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Govertsen

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    9. Part II, "The Rise of Humanity": High Flight (Chorus)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    10. Part II, "The Rise of Humanity": Binsey Poplars (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michelle Areyzaga, Leah Dexter

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    11. Part III, "Searching for Balance": A Dirge (All)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michelle Areyzaga, Leah Dexter, David Govertsen, Jesse Donner

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    12. Part III, "Searching for Balance": Darkness (Mezzo-Soprano, Women of the Chorus)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Leah Dexter

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    13. Part III, "Searching for Balance": Earth Screaming (Tenor, Baritone)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Jesse Donner, David Govertsen

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    14. Part III, "Searching for Balance": The World Is Too Much with Us (All)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michelle Areyzaga, Leah Dexter, Jesse Donner, David Govertsen

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    15. Part III, "Searching for Balance": The Want of Peace (Chorus)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    16. Part III, "Searching for Balance": A Child Said, What Is the Grass? (Soprano)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michelle Areyzaga

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    17. Part III, "Searching for Balance": There Was a Child Went Forth Every Day (Children)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Uniting Voices, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop

    18. Part III, "Searching for Balance": A Blade of Grass - I Bequeath Myself (Chorus, Children, All)

      Composer: Stacy Garrop

      Ensemble: Uniting Voices, Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Northwestern University Chorale, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michelle Areyzaga, Leah Dexter, Jesse Donner, David Govertsen

      Conductor: Stephen Alltop


In celebration of Earth Day, Cedille Records releases the world premiere recording of Stacy Garrop’s monumental oratorio Terra Nostra, “a spellbinding dive into the history of the planet” (Chicago Classical Review). Terra Nostra explores the relationship between humanity and Earth, and how humankind can re-establish a harmonious balance.

Stacy Garrop‘s music is characterized by its lyricism and vivid storytelling. She has been described by the Chicago Tribune as “one of Chicago’s most keenly sensitive composers” and praised by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for musicthat “excites the enthusiasm of performers and audiences alike,” while the Detroit Free Press remarks, “she has “asharp ear for instrumental color and narrative form: She can tell a story.” Declared an “oratorio that embraces the whole world” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Garrop’s tour de force is aninterconnected musical narrative presented in three parts: Creation of the World, The Rise of Humanity, and Searchingfor Balance. The multifarious text weaves together creation myths from India, North America, and Egypt, excerpts from the Bible’s Old Testament, classic poetry from Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and contemporary writings by Esther Iverem and Wendell Berry, among others.

Terra Nostra is performed by soloists soprano Michelle Areyzaga, mezzo-soprano Leah Dexter, tenor Jesse Donner, and bass-baritone David Govertsen, the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Alice Millar Chapel Choir,
and Chicago’s Uniting Voices, all led by acclaimed conductor Stephen Alltop.