Lang: The National Anthems / Los Angeles Master Chorale, Calder String Quartet

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Label
Cantaloupe Music
Release Date
June 24, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DAVID LANG
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Los Angeles Master Chorale, Calder Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Gershon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 24, 2016
    • UPC
      713746311926
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CA21119
    • LABEL
      Cantaloupe Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Secular
    Works ⌄

    1. our land with peace

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale, Calder Quartet

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    2. our hearts are glowing

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale, Calder Quartet

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    3. fame and glory

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale, Calder Quartet

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    4. keep us free

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale, Calder Quartet

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    5. our common fate

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale, Calder Quartet

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    6. Come, daughter

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    7. It was terribly cold

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    8. Dearest heart

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    9. In an old apron

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    10. Penance and remorse

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    11. Lights were shining

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    12. Patience, patience!

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    13. Ah! perhaps

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    14. Have mercy, my God

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    15. She lighted another match

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    16. From the sixth hour

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    17. She again rubbed a match

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    18. When it is time for me to go

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    19. In the dawn of morning

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon

    20. We sit and cry

      Composer: David Lang

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Master Chorale

      Conductor: Grant Gershon


“We group ourselves into nations,” David Lang writes in the program note, “but it has never really been clear to me what that means, or what we get out of it.” In 2014, he wrote The National Anthems, the featured work on Cantaloupe’s new release. The piece uses one line from each national anthem of the United Nations’ 193 countries.

Attempting to find a universal truth in the process of researching the anthems, he instead came to realize they resembled prayers for fleeting freedom rather than confidence in it. By the work's end, what remains sounds like it could be heard inside a church.

Also on the album is his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion. After hearing from nations of people, the piece places similar prayers in the context of one person.

All together, the album has the feeling of clutching hands. Whether you believe in patriotism or not, it reminds us that everyone in the world holds onto something — whether it’s words, a melody or that which we hope is true.

– WQXR-FM (Elena Saavedra Buckley)