choral anthology 2
for mixed choir (SATB)
M USICA
BALTICA
in collaboration with EP 72446
MUSICA BALTICA
ĒRIKS EŠENVALDS
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Veltīts Rīgas Jauniešu korim Kamēr... / Dedicated to the Riga Youth Choir Kamēr...
AMAZING GRACE Traditional American tune arranged by Ēriks Ešenvalds (*1977)
John Newton (1725-1807)
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Commissioned by the Salt Lake Vocal Artists / Salt Lake Choral Artists, Brady Allred, Conductor
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Commissioned by the Salt Lake Vocal Artists / Salt Lake Choral Artists, Brady Allred, Conductor
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as the glasses are played with wet fingertips. Every second singer plays a glass. The pitches of every glass-sound chord should be divided equally between the players. For bars 42-76 you may also add a few larger glass or Tibetan-type bowls with pitches D, E and A to add more lower sounds than the sounds produced by the glasses. Choose resonant glasses and use as little water to tune them as possible - the less water, the more resonant the sound. There must be some water, however, as the are played with wet fingertips. © glasses Copyright Musica Baltica 2011Every second singer plays a glass. The pitches of every glass-sound chord should be divided equally between the players. For bars 42-76 you may also add a few larger glass or Tibetan-type bowls with pitches D, E and A to add more lower sounds than the sounds produced by the glasses.
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Commissioned by the University of Louisville Collegiate Chorale and Cardinal Singers. Conductor: Kent Hatteberg
ONLY IN SLEEP TIKAI MIEGĀ Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)
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IN MY LITTLE PICTURE FRAME
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IN MY LITTLE PICTURE FRAMEMusic by Renārs Kaupers
Lyrics by Imants Ziedonis (*1933)
(*1974)
English transl. by Ieva Lešinska-Geiber Lyrics by Imants and Elaine SingleyZiedonis Lloyd (*1933)
Arranged by Ēriks Ešenvalds Music by Renārs Kaupers (*1977)
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ce�š (lyrics Long Road is the Long Road is English version of my recent choral composition T�ls Ce�š Latvianpoet poetPaul�ne Paul�neB�rda), B�rda), (text bybyLatvian and it is dedicated to Stephen Layton and Polyphony who first performed it on April 8th, 2010 in Trinity College Chapel Cambridge.
LONG ROAD
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For me, harmony is most important – how it flows and becomes a new harmony. The melodic line is secondary. Perhaps this is because my ear is trained primarily to perceive harmonies. Nevertheless I don’t want to write simple music . . . it is important for me to create sounds that I truly feel. I conclude that I am constantly changing, searching for new paths, but absolutely not, once having found them, massproducing them. Ēriks Ešenvalds
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Born in 1977 in Priekule, Latvia, Ēriks Ešenvalds studied composition with Selga Mence at the Latvian Academy of Music. He has continued his studies with Michael Finnissy, Trevor Wishart, Richard Ayres and Jonathan Harvey, amongst others. For 2011–2013, he holds the position of Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
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