Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir of Houston - Bob Chilcott - Circlesong (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. Composed by Bob Chilcott and based on poetry from the Chinook, Comanche, Dakota, Inuit, Iroquois, Kwakiutl, Navajo, Ojibwa, Pueblo, Seminole, Sioux, and Yaqui traditions, the thirteen movements, in seven parts, mark the different stages of life, from birth and childhood to adulthood, middle age and death. With energetic percussion accompaniment, climactic moments for tutti choir, tender unaccompanied passages and solo song, Circlesong is a work of impressive drama, variety, and depth, performed by the Houston Chamber Choir under Robert Simpson and the Treble Choir of Houston led by Marianna Parnas-Simpson.

Founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Robert Simpson, the Houston Chamber Choir received the 2019 Grammy® Award for Best Choral Performance for its recording of the complete works of Maurice Duruflé (also available from Signum). Other honours include Chorus America’s Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the American Prize, Professional Choir Division. Dubbed by Jamie Bernstein as“the choral equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters” the Houston Chamber Choir is as comfortable singing jazz with Christian McBride and Dave Brubeck as performing Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel with violist Kim Kashkashian, and Mass Observation by Tarik O’Regan.

TRACKLIST

01. Andreea Mut, Jessica Myers, Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Introduction. Beauty Before Me / We Wait In Darkness
02. Andreea Mut, Jessica Myers, Richard Brown, Mark Stein, Leonardo Soto, Matt Richards, Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. I, Birth: Song for Bringing a Child into the World
03. Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. I, Birth: Newborn
04. Andreea Mut, Jessica Myers, Richard Brown, Mark Stein, Leonardo Soto, Matt Richards, Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. Ii, Childhood: Yaqui Song
05. Ella Theurer, Andreea Mut, Robert Simpson, Houston Chamber Choir & Treble Choir Of Houston - Circlesong: Pt. Ii, Childhood: A Child's Song
06. Andreea Mut, Jessica Myers, Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. Ii, Childhood: Give Me Strength
07. Andreea Mut, Jessica Myers, Richard Brown, Mark Stein, Leonardo Soto, Matt Richards, Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. Iii, Lover: Chinook Songs
08. Andreea Mut, Jessica Myers, Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. Iii, Lover: Over the Wave
09. Andreea Mut, Jessica Myers, Richard Brown, Mark Stein, Leonardo Soto, Matt Richards, Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. Iv, Adulthood: Summer Song
10. Andreea Mut, Jessica Myers, Richard Brown, Mark Stein, Leonardo Soto, Matt Richards, Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. V, Middle Age: O Great Spirit
11. Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. Vi, Old Age: In the House Made of Dawn
12. Ella Theurer, Andreea Mut, Robert Simpson, Houston Chamber Choir & Treble Choir Of Houston - Circlesong: Pt. Vii, Death: Farewell, My Brother
13. Andreea Mut, Jessica Myers, Houston Chamber Choir, Treble Choir Of Houston & Robert Simpson - Circlesong: Pt. Vii, Death: The Sun’s Beams Are Running Out / We Wait in the Darkness
14. Andreea Mut, Treble Choir Of Houston, Marianna Parnas-Simpson, Houston Chamber Choir & Robert Simpson - Like a Rainbow
15. Andreea Mut, Treble Choir Of Houston, Marianna Parnas-Simpson, Houston Chamber Choir & Robert Simpson - All Things Pass
16. Andreea Mut, Treble Choir Of Houston, Marianna Parnas-Simpson, Houston Chamber Choir & Robert Simpson - Circles of Motion
17. Andreea Mut, Houston Chamber Choir, Robert Simpson & Treble Choir Of Houston - Walking the Red Road



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