Posts Tagged “choral music”

Spotless Rose - Hymns to the Virgin Mary album coverIn 2008 the Phoenix Chorale won a Grammy Award for the newest recording.

This podcast looks at their brand new recording of Hymns to the Virgin Mary.

The interesting thing about this CD is that all of the music was written in the 20th century, including music by four composers who are still very much alive and composing.

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Catalogue No.: CHSA 5066

 

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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols / HodieA podcast introduction to the Christmas Cantata “Hodie”, composed when English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was in his 80’s.

Vaughan Williams was one of the best English composers of the 20th century, known equally for his symphonies, choral works, and film scores.

This work shows that even at the end of his long life, his musical imagination remained undiminished.

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