Northern Lights: Choral Works by Ola Gjeilo
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA5100
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 30th January 2012
Contents
Works
Dark Night of the SoulEvening Prayer
Northern Lights 'Pulchra es, amica mea'
Phoenix 'Agnus Dei'
Prelude 'Exsultate, jubilate'
Serenity 'O magnum mysterium'
The Ground 'Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua'
The Spheres 'Kyrie Eleison'
Tota pulchra es
Ubi Caritas
Unicornis captivatur
Artists
Phoenix ChoraleConductor
Charles BruffyWorks
Dark Night of the SoulEvening Prayer
Northern Lights 'Pulchra es, amica mea'
Phoenix 'Agnus Dei'
Prelude 'Exsultate, jubilate'
Serenity 'O magnum mysterium'
The Ground 'Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua'
The Spheres 'Kyrie Eleison'
Tota pulchra es
Ubi Caritas
Unicornis captivatur
Artists
Phoenix ChoraleConductor
Charles BruffyAbout
When he first heard Gjeilo’s Ubi caritas, Charles Bruffy was instantly hooked, finding the music ‘refreshing and magnetic’. Bruffy brought Gjeilo’s music to the Chorale and its audiences, and the response was immediate. Soon after, Gjeilo was invited to be the Chorale’s first Composer-in-Residence.
Phoenix, a setting of the Agnus Dei, is dedicated to Charles Bruffy and the Phoenix Chorale in honour of its fiftieth anniversary. When Gjeilo first visited the choir in Arizona, he had never been to the desert before, and the ‘quiet beauty and barrenness of the landscape’ moved him deeply. He describes Phoenix as ‘symphonic in nature… one of those pieces where the text is very much the servant of the music, not the other way around’.
In contrast, Northern Lights takes its inspiration from Gjeilo’s homeland, Norway, and the ‘terrible beauty’ of the natural phenomenon that may be observed there. The music reflects the powerful and electric quality of the northern lights, which must have seemed both mesmerising and terrifying to people in the past when no one knew what they were, and superstition prevailed.
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