Each of the three albums hit #1 on Billboard Magazine's classical music charts. The bonus CD is Music from 9/ Rising Above containing the songs from a Music and the Spoken Word special that celebrates the triumph of the American spirit over adversity and challenges. The bonus album is available on CD for the first time!

This CD with the music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert celebrates Christmas through the eyes of a child. The engaging wisdom of innocence captures our imagination through favorite songs and carols from around the world.

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis were originally part of different daily monastic offices, Vespers and Compline respectively. Cranmer incorporated the two into the single office of Evening Prayer, a service commonly known as Evensong when some of the texts are sung. Composers have used different means to fashion the two canticles into one entity.

By the day war was declared he had finished one of his most enduring compositions, the concerto for double string orchestra (), and begun his great oratorio, A Child of Our Time (). Following his refusal to accept the terms of his conscientious objection (believing that his musical activity was the only contribution he could make.

Sep 07,  · ) Tippett – A Child of Our Time (Faye Robinson, Sarah Walker, Jon Garrison, John Cheek, CBSO & Chorus/Tippett) Moving and topical oratorio with negro spirituals as chorales. Tippett.

Deep river For the American slaves, crossing the River Jordan was a metaphor for passing from this world to the next. In Deep river the longing to ‘cross over’ is movingly expressed. The mood of this spiritual is perfectly captured in Norman Luboff’s classic arrangement; he was a leading American choir director and choral arranger who.

ALVIN SINGLETON (b. ) Different River () 25MIN EDVARD GRIEG () Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Opus 16 () 31MIN I. Allegro molto moderato II.

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GALA CONCERTS A Child of Our Time is a secular oratorio by the English composer Michael Tippett (), who also wrote the libretto. Composed between and , it was first performed at.