Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Rosenbaum, Harold
2. Del Tredici, David.
3. Stucky, Steven.
4. Lerdahl, Fred, 1943-
5. Harbison, John.
6. Adolphe, Bruce.
7. Ran, Shulamit, 1949-
8. Hartke, Stephen, 1952-
9. Chen, Yi, 1953-
10. Tsontakis, George.
11. Corigliano, John, 1938-
12. Higdon, Jennifer, 1962-
13. Wyner, Yehudi, 1929-
14. Bolcom, William.
15. Musgrave, Thea.
16. Schwantner, Joseph, 1943-
17. Felder, David, 1953-
18. Lang, David (David A.).
19. Tower, Joan, 1938-
20. Thomas, Augusta Read.
21. Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe, 1939-
22. Wernick, Richard, 1934-
23. Danielpour, Richard.
24. Adamo, Mark.
25. Davidson, Roger Conrad, 1952-
26. Kernis, Aaron Jay.

Description

1. 2 audio discs : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative title

1. 25 times 25
2. Twenty five times twenty five
3. 25 premieres for 25 years

Subject

1. Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
2. Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
3. Psalms (Music) > Musical settings

Contents

1. Program notes and texts of the vocal works ([22] p. : ports.) inserted in container.
2. CD 1. Alphabet II / David Del Tredici (2:23) -- Say thou dost love me / Steven Stucky (4:58) -- Cornstalks / Fred Lerdahl (2:38) -- The pool / John Harbison (2:08) -- Obedient choir of emotions / Bruce Adolphe (5:52) -- The humble shall inherit (Psalm 37) / Shulamit Ran (5:35) -- Ausdistit quia dictum est / Stephen Hartke (3:19) -- Let's reach a new height / Chen Yi (2:46) -- A dream within a dream / George Tsontakis (3:24) -- Upon Julia's clothes / John Corigliano (1:04) -- The prayer / Jennifer Higdon (1:55) -- Save me, o God / Yehudi Wyner (5:31).
3. CD 2. Why was Cupid a boy? / William Bolcom (1:26) -- Starlight / Thea Musgrave (2:01) -- Smoke / Joseph Schwantner (5:24) -- Nomina sunt consequentia rerum / David Felder (3:33) -- the same train / David Lang (3:22) -- Descending / Joan Tower (6:35) -- SPELLS / Augusta Read Thomas (3:37) -- Memorial / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (5:10) -- The devil's game / Richard Wernick (3:12) -- Lux aeterna / Richard Danielpour (2:42) -- Here / Mark Adamo (2:41) -- Song to Celia / Roger Davidson (2:31) -- Song of you / Aaron Jay Kernis (4:33).

Note

1. Compact discs.
2. "These 25 compositions were commissioned for the 25th anniversary of The New York Virtuoso Singers and given their world premieres in a pair of concerts at Merkin Concert Hall, NYC. The pieces on CD 1 were performed on October 2012 and the pieces on CD 2 were performed on March 3, 2013."-Insert.

Credits (note)

1. Produced and engineered by Adam Abeshouse.

Event (note)

1. Recorded: in January, 2013 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (CD 1); in March, 2013 at Merkin Concert Hall, New York, NY.

Language (note)

1. Sung principally in Englsh; CD1, track 7 and CD 2, track 4 sung in Latin; CD 1, track 6 sung in Hebrew