Rising w/the Crossing
Composed by: Dietrich Buxtehude , David Lang
2020
New Focus Recordings
During the bewildering and urgent first days of the COVID-19 shutdowns, new-music choir The Crossing began posting archival live recordings every morning on their website. Perhaps no other choir was so well-equipped to address the moment, with its vaunted technical proficiency, musical flexibility, and vast fund of recordings earnestly probing contemporary human questions. The selection of these recordings offered here show a particular interest in works that dwell in the liminal space where despair becomes expectation and vice versa (see Paul Fowler’s “First Pink,” Joby Talbot’s “Lost Forever”). Wonderfully-paced and diverse, with a handful of stunners.
Who also suggested
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Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms; Symphony in Three Movements; Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez - Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic
- Jonny Greenwood
- Anonymous 4
- Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
- Ensemble Dal Niente, Deerhoof, Marcos Balter
- Mary Halvorson
- Mary Halvorson
- Pat Metheny, Kronos Quartet