Circlesong - Houston Chamber Choir - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Circlesong is an album by Houston Chamber Choir, released in 2022. The album is a classical CD.

Disc form Grammy Award winning Houston Chamber Choir. New repertoire from choral composer Bob Chilcott.

A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. Based on poetry from the Chinook, Comanche, Dakota, Eskimo, Iroquois, Kwakiutl, Navajo, Ojibwa, Pueblo, Seminole, Sioux, and Yaqui traditions, the thirteen movements, in seven parts, mark the different stages of life, from birth and childhood to adulthaood, middle age and death. With energetic percussion accompaniment, climactic moments for tutti choir, tender unaccompanied passages and solo song, Circlesong is a work of impressive drama, variety, and depth, peformed here by the Grammy® Award winning Houston Chamber Choir under Robert Simpson.

Tracklist

1. Circlesong - Introduction: Beauty Before Me/We Wait In Darkn
2. Circlesong - Part I, Birth: Song For Bringing a Child Into T
3. Circlesong - Part I, Birth: Newborn
4. Circlesong - Part Ii, Childhood: Yaqui Song
5. Circlesong - Part Ii, Childhood: a Child's Song
6. Circlesong - Part Ii, Childhood: Give Me Strength
7. Circlesong - Part Iii, Lover: Chinook Songs
8. Circlesong - Part Iii, Lover: Over the Wave
9. Circlesong - Part Iv, Adulthood: Summer Song
10. Circlesong - Part V, Middle Age: O Great Spirit
11. Circlesong - Part Vi, Old Age: In the House Made of Dawn
12. Circlesong - Part Vii, Death: Farewell, My Brother
13. Circlesong - Part Vii, Death: the Sun's Beams Are Running Ou
14. Like a Rainbow
15. All Things Pass
16. Circles of Motion
17. Walking the Red Road

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland

📌 Works By Bob Chilcott