Music and Sweet Poetry: Choral Music by Matthew Harris

Music and Sweet Poetry: Choral Music by Matthew Harris

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Total playing time [72:09]

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Kantorei of Kansas City
Chris Munce (conductor)

Missouri-based choir Kantorei of Kansas City, with director Chris Munce, make their Resonus Classics debut with a varied selection of choral works by the prolific New York-based composer Matthew Harris.

A former student of Nadia Boulanger, Elliot Carter & Milton Babbitt, Harris's unique voice features in his prodigious output of choral music, among other genres, and Kantorei here present a choice programme that demonstrates the wide and differing influences on his work.

Formed in 2010, Kantorei of Kansas City have a rapidly growing reputation for quality performances and innovative programming.

Album Booklet (PDF)

Tracklist

Two Lorca Songs
1. Las seis cuerdas
2. Crótalo

3. La Guitarra

4. Full fathom five

5. Under the greenwood tree

6. Come away, come away, death

7. Blow, blow, thou winter wind

8. When daisies pied

9. Fear no more

10. O sacrum convivium

11. Ave verum corpus

12. Ave Maria

13. O vos omnes

Innocence & Experience
14. The Sick Rose
15. The Lamb
16. The Tiger

17. Sweet and low

18. If music and sweet poetry agree

19. i love you much (most beautiful darling)

20. Fantasy on La Bamba

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Credits
© 2014 Resonus Limited
Ⓟ 2014 Resonus Limited
Catalogue No. RES10125
Producer & editor: Adam Binks
Engineer: Josh Williams
EAN: 5060262790274
Cover Image: Music and Poetry by Claude Michel (1738-1814)