Voces8 – A Choral Christmas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:53 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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VOCES8, the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble’s release, ‘A Choral Christmas’, out on November 3rd 2023, showcases a joyful, cinematic soundscape-packed hamper of choral and orchestral treats. A Christmas musical extravaganza filled with sparkling, cinematic new arrangements of favourite carols from US composer Taylor Scott Davis. Featuring several world premiere recordings of brand new works and arrangements, including the centrepiece of the album, a major new work for choir and orchestra, Taylor Scott Davis’s dazzling setting of the Magnificat, originally commissioned for VOCES8’s LIVE From London festival. Also includes a serene and intimate new a cappella carol ‘The Sleeping Child’ from British composer Bob Chilcott written especially for VOCES8.
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Voces8 – Eventide (10th Anniversary Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:45 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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The artistic focus of Eventide is one of subtlety and contemplation. Adopting a plainchant thread throughout, Eventide unites original compositions and sublime new arrangements of celebrated repertoire to create a compelling album.
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Voces8, Eric Whitacre – Home (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:51 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Two branches of choral royalty entwine with majestic harmony on this release from Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre and acclaimed vocal ensemble Voces8. The album includes a world premiere, ‘All Seems Beautiful to Me’, and a new recording of Whitacre’s deeply moving 2019 cantata ‘The Sacred Veil’. The five-minute work ‘All Seems Beautiful to Me’ is based on a poem by Walt Whitman (from ‘Song of the Open Road’) celebrating the human spirit’s capacity for generosity and growth. It was commissioned by the United States Air Force Band and here receives its world premiere recording. Also included is a new recording of one of Whitacre’s most frequently performed and much loved pieces, ‘The Seal Lullaby’. The album also includes ‘Sing Gently’ and ‘Go, Lovely Rose’. The former was composed during lockdown specially for Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, made up of over 17,500 singers from 124 different countries. The latter was Whitacre’s first ever composition, written 30 years ago, and thus the album is also, in part, a joyful celebration of his three decades as a composer. The longest work is the twelve-movement, hour-long 2019 cantata ‘The Sacred Veil’ for choir, cello (Emma Denton), and piano (Christopher Glynn). The text, by Whitacre’s close friend and long-time collaborator Charles Anthony Silvestri, commemorates the death of the poet’s young wife Julie from ovarian cancer. It journeys from the growth of their love, through the birth of their children, to their struggle with the illness. One particularly striking section ‘You Rise, I Fall’ involves extraordinary descending and ascending tone-clusters mirroring the emotional states of the dying woman and her husband.
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Christopher Tin, Voces8, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Barnaby Smith – The Lost Birds (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:45 minutes | 778 MB | Genre: Classical
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“The Lost Birds” is a soaring elegy for the loss of bird species due to human activity. Composed and conducted by Christopher Tin and featuring Voces8 and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tin’s new requiem is a celebration of birds – as symbols of beauty, hope, peace and renewal – but it also mourns their absence.
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Paul Smith, Voces8, Apollo5 – Renewal? (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:54 minutes | 951 MB | Genre: Classical
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‘Renewal?’ is a concept album, designed to be listened to from beginning to end, which combines world premiere recordings, include six tracks composed by Smith and three new commissions from Donna McKevitt, with three musical pillars from the 20th Century, by William Walton, John Cage and William Henry Harris. Performers include choral stars such as the ensembles VOCES8 and Apollo5, as well as members of The King’s Singers and I Fagiolini, Barnaby Smith and Paul Smith himself, with cellist Caroline Dale, violist Roger Chase, Westminster Abbey’s sub organist Peter Holder and a percussionist best known for her work with Van Morrison, Teena Lyle.
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Voces8 – Winter (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:14 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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Conjuring up a pristine, snow-covered landscape through an immersive choral sound, Voces8’s new album Winter captures the serene beauty of the season. Winter features pieces by composers from northern climes, including Arvo Pärt’s “Nunc Dimittis,” arrangements of Ólafur Arnalds’ “For Now I Am Winter” and Henry Purcell’s “Cold Song” as well as a world premiere written for the album by the young British composer and recent Decca signing, Rebecca Dale.
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Voces8 – Infinity (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:16 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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The world-leading choral ensemble blazes a trail with brand new repertoire for voices with their transportive and meditative new album. It transcends genres and embraces renowned composers of alternative, film and contemporary classical music. Mesmerising instrumental and electronic tracks are presented in new choral arrangements, including five brand new works with spine-tingling choral sounds with otherworldly strings and bowed vibraphones.
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Voces8 – Eventide (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:37 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Decca is delighted to announce that VOCES8, one of Britain’s most dazzling vocal ensembles, has joined its roster of artists. The thrilling young singers of VOCES8 combine terrific energy and charisma with immaculate vocal blend, breaking down barriers between music as diverse as Tallis, Bruckner and Emeli Sand.
Critics have showered VOCES8 with praise, celebrating their “radiant” and “luminous” sound, “imaginative theatricality” and spotlighting their “impressive stage presence”. VOCES8 make their Decca debut with the release of Eventide in early 2014, an exquisite album exploring the magical time between day and night, including original compositions and freshly arranged pieces spanning five centuries and all rooted in reflection and repose. Eventide’s rich sonic blend is frequently combined with haunting solo instrumentals from saxophone, cello, and harp and is sure to appeal to the discerning listener who enjoys music with gorgeous sound and spiritual meaning.
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Voces8 – Equinox (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:11:00 minutes | 630 MB | Genre: Classical
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EQUINOX. Equal night, equal day; a threshold between the seasons. For centuries, the English New Year was marked not in January, but after the spring EQUINOX, on Lady Day – the feast of the Annunciation, where Mary learns that she will give birth to the Christ child. Like many of the waypoints in the church year, the timing of this festival evolved from earlier pagan rites deeply rooted in the seasons and the slow, constant shifting of the natural world around us. Hope is born in the depths of winter; new life rises in spring. The musical selections on this album are inspired by the themes of Jonathan Dove s song cycle The Passing of the Year. The term cycle seems particularly appropriate for a work whose subject is the changing of the seasons – seven poems charting the course of one year and closing as a new one begins. This journey from new birth in spring to the death of the year in winter led us to think about the cycle of human life, and the ways in which we mark our time here on earth.
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Voces8 – Enchanted Isle (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:58 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Classical
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Celebrated vocal group VOCES8 take listeners on a glorious journey through the musical landscape of Britain with their brand new album ‘Enchanted Isle’, released on Decca Classics. The recording features a broad range of music from John Tavener and Thomas Adès to Radiohead and Enya, interspersed with folk tunes, world premiere recordings and music from hit TV shows Game of Thrones and Harry’s Game.
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VOCES8 – After Silence IV. Elemental (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:00 minutes | 558 MB | Genre: Classical
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After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley.
In the essay from which the title After Silence is taken, Aldous Huxley offers his thoughts on the essential force of music. The most profoundly significant constituents of our being, he says, include our responses to beauty, pleasure, pain, ecstasy and death. These can best be ‘experienced, not expressed’ through silence, and after silence, through music.
These successive online releases will be followed by After Silence, a double album with a beautifully produced booklet, illustrated with contemporary artworks that add a visual dimension to the exploration of the themes. Exalted, vital and freed from their original contextual restraints, the choral works showcased in this project have been carefully compiled for their thematic power and inexhaustible capacity to express the inexpressible.
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Voces8 – Lux (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:41 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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This luminous collection from British vocal ensemble Voces8 spans over 400 years of music, from Thomas Tallis and Gregorio Allegri to Massive Attack and Ben Folds Five (The Luckiest, which appeared in the Richard Curtis film About Time). Also Includes popular classics such as Allegri’s Miserere and Elgar’s Nimrod. Paul Mealor’s pieceUbi Caritas was commissioned by Prince William and sung at his wedding to Catherine Middleton in 2011.
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