Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Echoes of Grace: Choral Music of Patti Drennan (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Echoes of Grace: Choral Music of Patti Drennan (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:16 minutes | 657 MB | Genre: Classical
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“Echoes of Grace” is a breathtaking new choral album featuring the works of Choral Director and Composer, Patti Drennan, as performed by the Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles under the direction of Conductor, Michelle Jensen.

Patti Drennan and Emily Drennan, who serves as Co-Producer and Chorus Master for the project, envisioned an album that encapsulated both sacred and secular works as that is most indicative of Patti’s compositional style as well as indicative of the choral music genre.

There is often an intertwining of text, themes and harmonies in choral music which are conducive to both realms.

The title, “Echoes of Grace” is exactly that.It suggests an exploration of an overarching theme of grace – both sacred and secular. It harkens back to grace given to us in songs like Lux Aeterna and Ave Maria, reminds us of grace we can give each other in Grace Before Sleep, The Water is Wide and If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking and ultimately, shows us the grace we can extend to ourselves in Awake, My Soul.

There is an echo of that grace not only in the text, but in the polyphony of voices, in the moving lines of the orchestra and in the musical motifs that are echoed from one song to the next.

In her choral and orchestral compositions, Patti strives to “create music that is not predictable to the ear, but instead incorporates unexpected meters, harmonies and melodies”.

Tracklist:

1-1. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Fanfare and March on “Gloria!” (02:35)
1-2. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Grace Before Sleep (04:05)
1-3. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Lux Aeterna Domine (04:01)
1-4. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Wild Mountain Thyme (02:43)
1-5. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – The Water is Wide (03:40)
1-6. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Life and Love: 3 Settings of Emily Dickinson – I. Hope is the Thing With Feathers (01:24)
1-7. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Life and Love: 3 Settings of Emily Dickinson – II. Heart, We Will Forget Him! (02:33)
1-8. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Life and Love: 3 Settings of Emily Dickinson – III. If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking (02:25)
1-9. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Ave Maria (04:40)
1-10. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – Awake, My Soul and Sing (03:39)
1-11. Sterling Ensemble Los Angeles – “Fanfare and March” (02:27)

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