ANTIPHONIA
Masterpieces for double chorus
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ANTIPHONIA captures the acclaimed program that The Esoterics reprised in Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and Everett in November 1999.
ANTIPHONIA consists of six choral masterpieces, each from a different nationality — Swedish and Swiss, Finnish, and French, British and American — and each with a unique rendition of antiphony (from the Greek antiphon, “singing across”).
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer deemed The Esoterics’ performance of ANTIPHONIA a “triumph” and a program “as difficult as any … [The Esoterics] … have undertaken.” The journal 21st Century Music praised the sound of the group as “sublime, pure, luxuriant, velvety … The initial phrases gave me chills; it was as if angels were singing.”
| Messe pour double chœur (1922/1926) | Frank Martin | |
| 1 | Kyrie | |
| 2 | Gloria | |
| 3 | Credo | |
| 4 | Sanctus | |
| 5 | Agnus Dei | |
| Echoes from the heart (1998) | Donald Skirvin | |
| 6 | Ancient roses | |
| 7 | Longing, Dreaming | |
| 8 | I remember | |
| 9 | Cantico del sole (1974) | William Walton |
| 10 | ...a riveder le stelle (1971/1973) | Ingvar Lidholm |
| Figure humaine (1943) | Francis Poulenc | |
| 11 | Bientôt | |
| 12 | Le rôle de femmes | |
| 13 | Aussi bas que le silence | |
| 14 | Patience | |
| 15 | Première marche la voix d’un autre | |
| 16 | Un loup | |
| 17 | Un feu sans tache | |
| 18 | Liberté | |
| 19 | Pseudo-yoik (1994) | Jaakko Mäntyjärvi |