Modern choral music - so wonderful that there are still proper musicians creating music outside of the trite tropes and tripe that passes for culture.
Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds - Rivers of light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZkxDL-fs4c&list=LLvOyNQR3EeguOvHMTtjiwzQ&index=1
Lyrics draw on two Latvian folk songs about the Northern Lights in which culture they auger the onset of war. This is juxtaposed with the words of an English explorer's journal entry on first seeing the lights.
Exquisitely performed by this American choir.
The whole disc is worthwhile and available for download from http://www.eclassical.com/labels/naxos/riks-esenvalds-the-doors-of-heaven.html in impeccable 24/96 sound.
Just listened to the whole disc twice through - once on my main system and once on the HD600.
Just had to tell someone about it.
Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds - Rivers of light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZkxDL-fs4c&list=LLvOyNQR3EeguOvHMTtjiwzQ&index=1
Lyrics draw on two Latvian folk songs about the Northern Lights in which culture they auger the onset of war. This is juxtaposed with the words of an English explorer's journal entry on first seeing the lights.
Exquisitely performed by this American choir.
The whole disc is worthwhile and available for download from http://www.eclassical.com/labels/naxos/riks-esenvalds-the-doors-of-heaven.html in impeccable 24/96 sound.
Just listened to the whole disc twice through - once on my main system and once on the HD600.
Just had to tell someone about it.
