STABAT: Arvo Part, James MacMillan & Peteris Vasks - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
STABAT: Arvo Part, James MacMillan & Peteris Vasks - Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge - Graham Ross
The Dmitri Ensemble
Encompassing works by Arvo Pärt (Estonia), Pēteris Vasks (Latvia), and James MacMillan (a native of Scotland), this album charts the evolution of choral music in three regions of Northern Europe that saw the rise of a startling new language beginning in the 1980s. Its subsequent development has had far-reaching implications well beyond the staid confines of the house of worship or the serial techniques current at the time. The spiritual focus of this trio of trail-blazers resonates with many of today’s composers, a dimension that has not escaped their listeners or, for that matter, Graham Ross, the enterprising Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge.
1Da pacem, Domine
for mixed choir a cappella 4'25
2The Woman with the Alabaster Box
for mixed choir a cappella 6'05
3Plainscapes
for mixed choir, violin and cello 15'00
4Magnificat
for mixed choir a cappella 7'33
5Nunc dimittis
for mixed choir a cappella 6'50
6Miserere
for mixed choir a cappella 12'24
7Stabat Mater
for mixed choir and string orchestra 27'27