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.”

Track listing

Messe pour double chœur (1922/1926)Frank Martin
1Kyrie
2Gloria
3Credo
4Sanctus
5Agnus Dei
Echoes from the heart (1998)Donald Skirvin
6Ancient roses
7Longing, Dreaming
8I remember
9Cantico del sole (1974)William Walton
10...a riveder le stelle (1971/1973)Ingvar Lidholm
Figure humaine (1943)Francis Poulenc
11Bientôt
12Le rôle de femmes
13Aussi bas que le silence
14Patience
15Première marche la voix d’un autre
16Un loup
17Un feu sans tache
18Liberté
19Pseudo-yoik (1994)Jaakko Mäntyjärvi