ELEMENTIA
The elements in their season
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ELEMENTIA, the third release from The Esoterics, is a double CD set that encompasses some of the best works from Season 2000. With more than two hours of music, ELEMENTIA features world premiere recordings by Northwest composers Donald Skirvin, Garrett Fisher, and David Asplin.
Over the course of the year 2000, The Esoterics celebrated each of the four ancient elements from various vantage points, presenting the sounds and stories of different cultures — weaving music and mythology, science and sociology — to create a broader appreciation of EARTH, WATER, AIR, and FIRE.
ELEMENTIA is a compilation of works from these concerts, with world premieres and 20th century classics. The repertoire spans continents and styles, with a range of new favorites and choral classics from Britten, Carter, Pizzetti, Stravinsky, Barber, and more.
Kim Davenport of new-music.org said of the EARTH concert performed in Tacoma, "Seldom is one treated to a choral ensemble of such skill, with stunning balance, rhythmic precision, warmth of sound, a wonderfully broad dynamic range, and impeccable diction in every language sung."
| Disk 1 | ||
| 1 | In nature’s charm (1999) | David Asplin |
| 2 | Spring equinox: New world (2000) | Donald Skirvin |
| Due composizioni corali (1961) | Ildebrando Pizzetti | |
| 3 | Il giardino di Afrodite | |
| 4 | Piena sorgeva la luna | |
| 5 | A földhez (1951) | Lajos Bárdos |
| 6 | Min yndlingsdal (1971) | Jørgen Jersild |
| 7 | Friede auf Erden (1907) | Arnold Schœnberg |
| 8 | riverrun (2000) | Garrett Fisher |
| 9 | Summer solstice: Wheel of dreams (2000) | Donald Skirvin |
| 10 | To be sung on the water (1968) | Samuel Barber |
| Szeroka woda (1979) | Henryk Górecki | |
| 11 | A ta nasza Narew | |
| 12 | Oj, kiedy na Powislu | |
| 13 | Oj, Janie, Janie | |
| 14 | Polne róze rwala | |
| 15 | Szeroka woda | |
| 16 | Natteregn (1971) | Jørgen Jersild |
| 17 | Canticum calamitatis maritimæ (1997) | Jaakko Mäntyjärvi |
| Disk 2 | ||
| 1 | Autumn (1977) | John Chorbajian |
| 2 | Autumn equinox: The delight song of Tsoai-talee (2000) | Donald Skirvin |
| 3 | Dance, clarion air (1952) | Michael Tippett |
| 4 | Entflieht auf Leichten Kähnen (1908) | Anton Webern |
| Szeged felol (1937) | Lajos Bárdos | |
| 5 | Szeged felol… | |
| 6 | Nem porzik… | |
| 7 | Ángyi sütött retest… | |
| 8 | Sej haj, liba liba… | |
| 9 | Aftenrøden (1971) | Jørgen Jersild |
| 10 | Sügismaastikud (1964) | Veljo Tormis |
| 11 | Anthem: The dove descending breaks the air (1962) | Igor Stravinsky |
| 12 | Winter solstice: Cedar smoke and snowflake (2000) | Donald Skirvin |
| 13 | Twelfth night (1968) | Samuel Barber |
| 14 | Nonantsin (1972) | Carlos Chávez |
| 15 | Tűz-szivárvány (1962) | Lajos Bárdos |
| 16 | To music (1937) | Elliott Carter |
| 17 | Hymn to St Cecilia (1942) | Benjamin Britten |