27 Oct, 2013 - Recordings
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] Our second live performance CD on the Sunstone label featuring 20th century masterpieces of Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, Zoltan Kodaly and William Schuman. [button link=”https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/CantateChamberSingers/OnlineDonation.html” size=”small” target=”_blank” icon=”” color=”blue” lightbox=”false”]Purchase[/button] [/two_third_last]
27 Oct, 2013 - Recordings
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] Release date: September 2011 Maurice Saylor’s playfully brilliant setting of Lewis Carroll’s poem: “The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits” Gisele Becker conducts Cantate, the Snark Ensemble, and the Lower School Chorus of the Holton-Arms School. The Washington Post calls it “irresistible from start to finish!” [button link=”http://www.amazon.com/Saylor-Hunting-Snark-Gisele-Becker/dp/B005IKYZKS/ref=sr_1_2?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&sr=1-2&keywords=Hunting+of+the+snark” size=”small” target=”_blank” icon=”shopping-cart” […]
27 Oct, 2013 - Recordings
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] Release date: July 2012 Andrew Earle Simpson’s visionary wedding oratorio celebrates love across history and world traditions. Gisèle Becker leads Cantate and chamber ensemble, soprano Lisa Edwards-Burrs, tenor Joseph Dietrich, and the Maryland State Boychoir (Stephen Holmes, music director). Paired with Alfred Schnittke’s haunting and rarely recorded Requiem. [button link=”https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/CantateChamberSingers/OnlineDonation.html” size=”small” target=”_blank” icon=”” color=”blue” […]
27 Oct, 2013 - Recordings
[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last]A BRITTEN HOLIDAY spotlights seasonal gems from the composer’s lesser-known repertoire. Highlights include the stunning Chorale after an Old French Carol and Christ’s Nativity, written when Britten was a student, a year before the appearance of his choral theme and variations A Boy was Born. Eric Plutz, acclaimed University Organist at Princeton and former Cantate keyboard […]
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