Radiance Untethered - The Choral Music of John Wykoff

$18.99
Label
GIA
Release Date
June 7, 2024
Format
Added to Cart! View cart or continue shopping.


    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Traditional, John Wykoff
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Missouri State University Chorale
    • PERFORMER
      Parker Payne, Bailey Freeman, Jan Veljak, Theron Lepage, Madalyn
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 07, 2024
    • UPC
      785147813620
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GIACD-1136
    • LABEL
      GIA
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Laudemus Cum Armonia

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    2. Look Up, Look Down (arr. J. Wykoff)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    3. Jenny Jenkins (arr. J. Wykoff)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    4. Who Killed Poor Robin? (arr. J. Wykoff)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    5. Pretty Saro (arr. J. Wykoff)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Performer: Bailey Freeman

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    6. I Got a Hog and a Pig (arr. J. Wykoff)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    7. Beautiful Morning (arr. J. Wykoff)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    8. I. I Hold You

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Performer: Parker Payne

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    9. II. All Our Lives

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Performer: Parker Payne

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    10. III. Only Water

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Performer: Jan Veljak, Parker Payne

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    11. IV. We Are Consumed

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Performer: Parker Payne

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    12. V. Out of This Darkness

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Performer: Jan Veljak, Parker Payne

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    13. VI. A Season of Joy

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Performer: Parker Payne

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    14. Anywhere

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    15. Duchess

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    16. Tenu Tamen Potente

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    17. Claddagh Crown

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    18. I'm Told

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    19. The Silence Moves

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Performer: Parker Payne

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    20. Hard Heart

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Performer: Theron LePage, Parker Payne

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    21. Waking

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr

    22. Radiance Untethered

      Composer: John Wykoff

      Ensemble: Missouri State University Chorale

      Performer: Madalyn Kiewiet, Parker Payne

      Conductor: Cameron F. LaBarr


Poetry and music accomplish together what neither can accomplish alone. For the majority of the works on this album, John Wykoff collaborated with one of the best choral lyricists of our time. In writing the words for many of the works, Charles Anthony Silvestri was finely sensitive to the ways in which music transforms a text and is transformed in return. His lyrics are imaginative and beautiful, yet he leaves room for music to interpret the text and divert it's meaning... Music can account for many dimensions. From the comfort, consolation, protection, sacredness in Out of This Darkness, it also has the power to combine these with their opposite: threat, danger, and disquietude. Only the combination of words and music makes all these nuances possible. While lyrics typically precede music, sometimes it is the other way around, as with the Inventions for Choir (and Piano), where Wykoff considered what it would mean to take the spirit and purpose of Bach's famous keyboard inventions, but not the style, and write a set for singers in a contemporary choral idiom. And then there is Five American Songs, which began not with words or music separately, but with old songs whose words and music were already wed. Wykoff set out not to alter or change each song, but to lovingly frame it (to "curate it," as he heard Alice Parker say once). Any undue intrusion of the composer would distract from these charming songs, not enhance them. Songs do not live on paper. They come alive only when sung and played. The Missouri State Chorale, Parker Payne, and Cameron LaBarr bring these works to life. Music is something humans do together. And singing together is something that usually makes us more human.