After Silence IV. Elemental Voces8

• Frank Ticheli (b. 1958):
• 1 Earth Song 04:18
• Jonathan Dove (b.1959):
• 2 Vertue 05:17
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976):
• 3 Hymn to St. Cecilia 11:05
• Mårten Jansson (b. 1965):
• 4 An Elemental Elegy 05:05
• Eric Whitacre (b. 1970):
• 5 Sleep 05:13
• Total Runtime 30:58

Info for After Silence IV. Elemental

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.

Andrea Haines, soprano
Eleonore Cockerham, soprano
Katie Jeffries-Harris, alto
Barnaby Smith, direction, alto
Blake Morgan, tenor
Euan Williamson, tenor
Christopher Moore, bass
Jonathan Pacey, bass
Sam Dressel, tenor (track 5)

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