The Elysian Singers, Mark Brafield, Sam Laughton – Beauty for Ashes (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The Elysian Singers, Mark Brafield, Sam Laughton – Beauty for Ashes (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:03 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Signum Classics

‘Beauty for Ashes’ is a unique collection of unrecorded music from some of the UK’s foremost choral composers. Whilst the programme includes well-established names from classical music such as Bob Chilcott and Judith Weir, it also includes newer voices such as Alison Willis, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Judith Bingham, Sarah Macdonald and Roxanna Panufnik. Six of the contemporary composers featured on the recording are women, and their work exemplifies the enormous contribution female composers are making to the English choral tradition, in a genre where they have been historically under-represented and under-recorded. The principal aim of the recording is to enable these compositions to find new audiences and to promote the creation of new choral works. At a time when the sacred choral tradition is under severe threat from budget cuts, Beauty for Ashes reveals the vibrancy and variety of contemporary composition.

Tracklist:

01. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – MacDonald: Crux fidelis (06:15)
02. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Frances-Hoad: Psalm 6 (05:17)
03. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Stephens: Salisbury Service: Magnificat (07:41)
04. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Stephens: Salisbury Service: Nunc Dimittis (05:24)
05. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Willis: I sing of a maiden (03:37)
06. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Panufnik: Hymn to St Alfege (05:11)
07. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Park: Beati quorum via (04:45)
08. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Bingham: The Pilgrimes Travels (06:08)
09. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Lancaster: Feathers (05:53)
10. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Weir: Leaf from leaf Christ know (03:52)
11. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Leech: The Lily of Heaven (05:18)
12. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Chilcott: Beauty for Ashes (05:25)
13. The Elysian Singers featuring Mark Brafield & Sam Laughton – Edwards: God be in my head (02:14)

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