Voce Chamber Choir, Stephen Scarlato & Mark Singleton – The Nativity (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Voce Chamber Choir, Stephen Scarlato & Mark Singleton – The Nativity (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:20 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

One of Britain’s most popular contemporary composers, Patrick Hawes has teamed up with the excellent Voce Chamber Choir of Connecticut to create an album of twenty brand-new Christmas choral works.

Specially written for the choir, the first collection and album title sets words by Patrick’s poet brother Andrew. The Nativity, for unaccompanied choir,moves through the Christmas nativity scene exploring the drama of this momentous moment in human history.

For the second collection, Patrick has set FourChristmas Motets, the fragile ancient poetry givingrise to tender and heartfelt music forunaccompanied choir.

The album goes on to explore the Christmas storythrough various texts, old and new, in works thatare set to become extremely popular with choirs around the world.

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Voce Chamber Choir & Suzi Digby – 99 Words (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Voce Chamber Choir & Suzi Digby – 99 Words (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:42 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

Voce Chamber Choir’s new disc is a moving tribute to Sir John Tavener, featuring a selection of works by him (many of which are previously unrecorded) and by Roxanna Panufnik. At the heart of the disc is the premiere recording of Panufnik’s 99 Words to my Darling Children, a moving setting of Tavener’s last message to his family.

As well as the Voce Chamber Choir, the disc features performances from cellist Matthew Barley, organist James Sherlock and narration from Simon Russell Beale.

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