Life and Breath: Choral Works by Rene Clausen
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHSA5105
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 28th May 2012
Contents
Works
All that hath life and breathMagnificat
Mass for double choir
O magnum mysterium
O vos omnes
Prayer
Set me as a seal
The lamb
The tyger
Artists
Kansas City ChoraleConductor
Charles BruffyWorks
All that hath life and breathMagnificat
Mass for double choir
O magnum mysterium
O vos omnes
Prayer
Set me as a seal
The lamb
The tyger
Artists
Kansas City ChoraleConductor
Charles BruffyAbout
‘Set me as a Seal’ is arguably the composer’s best-known work, and has long been popular at weddings, funerals and in the concert repertoire. Clausen has described the work as ‘various kinds of discussions between God and humans, both from the human aspect and from the God aspect, so a lot of variations… of love, of disappointment, of anxiety, of doubt’. The composer was moved to learn that the work was chosen for the memorial service held after ValuJet 592 crashed in the Everglades in 1996.
All that hath life and breath is one of Clausen’s earliest works, and a favourite of choirs across the world. The piece was one of only three choral works performed in the 2008 Presidential Office Year-End Concert of Compassion held by the Republic of China (Taiwan), with the theme ‘Music brings warmth – Songs spread feeling’.
The Mass for Double Choir was commissioned by the Kansas City Chorale. The composer, who had never written a mass before, looked on it as an ‘interesting challenge’. In the work, emotions ebb and flow kaleidoscopically, taking the listener from the strength of the unison writing at the opening, to the sorrowful falling lines of the Crucifixion of Christ and the bubbling, dancing figures for the Resurrection. Expressions of praise spill forward atop one another in the Sanctus, a choir of angels too exuberant to be contained.
In contrast, Prayer sets Mother Teresa’s gentle words with long arching phrases and gentle dissonances.
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