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Radiance Untethered - The Choral Music of John Wykoff

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Composer
Traditional, John Wykoff
Artist
Parker Payne, Bailey Freeman, Jan Veljak, Theron Lepage, Madalyn
Format
CD
Label
GIA
Released
Jun 07, 2024
Catalog #
GIACD-1136
UPC
785147813620

About

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.

Tracklist 22 tracks

  1. 1 Laudemus Cum Armonia 02:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    Laudemus Cum Armonia
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  2. 2 Look Up, Look Down (arr. J. Wykoff) 03:55
    Track
    2
    Title
    Look Up, Look Down (arr. J. Wykoff)
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  3. 3 Jenny Jenkins (arr. J. Wykoff) 02:25
    Track
    3
    Title
    Jenny Jenkins (arr. J. Wykoff)
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  4. 4 Who Killed Poor Robin? (arr. J. Wykoff) 01:39
    Track
    4
    Title
    Who Killed Poor Robin? (arr. J. Wykoff)
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  5. 5 Pretty Saro (arr. J. Wykoff) 03:25
    Track
    5
    Title
    Pretty Saro (arr. J. Wykoff)
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Bailey Freeman
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  6. 6 I Got a Hog and a Pig (arr. J. Wykoff) 01:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    I Got a Hog and a Pig (arr. J. Wykoff)
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  7. 7 Beautiful Morning (arr. J. Wykoff) 03:15
    Track
    7
    Title
    Beautiful Morning (arr. J. Wykoff)
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Traditional
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  8. 8 I. I Hold You 04:04
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. I Hold You
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Performer
    Parker Payne
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  9. 9 II. All Our Lives 02:59
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. All Our Lives
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Performer
    Parker Payne
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  10. 10 III. Only Water 04:11
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Only Water
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Performer
    Jan Veljak, Parker Payne
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  11. 11 IV. We Are Consumed 04:59
    Track
    11
    Title
    IV. We Are Consumed
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Performer
    Parker Payne
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  12. 12 V. Out of This Darkness 03:18
    Track
    12
    Title
    V. Out of This Darkness
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Performer
    Jan Veljak, Parker Payne
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  13. 13 VI. A Season of Joy 03:09
    Track
    13
    Title
    VI. A Season of Joy
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Performer
    Parker Payne
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  14. 14 Anywhere 02:22
    Track
    14
    Title
    Anywhere
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  15. 15 Duchess 02:13
    Track
    15
    Title
    Duchess
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  16. 16 Tenu Tamen Potente 03:16
    Track
    16
    Title
    Tenu Tamen Potente
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  17. 17 Claddagh Crown 03:22
    Track
    17
    Title
    Claddagh Crown
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  18. 18 I'm Told 01:00
    Track
    18
    Title
    I'm Told
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  19. 19 The Silence Moves 03:51
    Track
    19
    Title
    The Silence Moves
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Performer
    Parker Payne
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  20. 20 Hard Heart 03:12
    Track
    20
    Title
    Hard Heart
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Performer
    Theron LePage, Parker Payne
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  21. 21 Waking 04:33
    Track
    21
    Title
    Waking
    Duration
    04:33
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr
  22. 22 Radiance Untethered 03:34
    Track
    22
    Title
    Radiance Untethered
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    John Wykoff
    Performer
    Madalyn Kiewiet, Parker Payne
    Ensemble
    Missouri State University Chorale
    Conductor
    Cameron F. LaBarr