A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert
Recorded October 2008 at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX, a production of KLRU-TV in association with Conspirare
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2009; Grammy®-nominated
Craig Hella Johnson & Company of Voices
Harmonia Mundi HMU 907534 – 68’47″
Craig Hella Johnson (CHJ), Conductor
With Bion Tsang, cello, and Thomas Burritt, percussion
“A Company of Voices” marks Conspirare’s national television debut. This recording takes the audience on a journey of innovative sound, vibrant images and thought-provoking ideas and offers a message of love, hope and transformation.
Track listing and Audio Samples:
- Sure on This Shining Night (Morten Lauridsen)
- Let the River Run (Carly Simon, arr. CHJ)
- The Water is Wide (traditional, arr. CHJ)
- Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel? (spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan)
- Will There Really Be a “Morning”? (CHJ)
- Light of a Clear Blue Morning (Dolly Parton, arr. CHJ)
- Collage (arr. CHJ): Wayfarin’ Stranger (traditional) / You’re No Good (Clint Ballard, Jr.) / De Profundis (chant) / See My Eyes (Andrew Lloyd Webber) / Crying (Joe Melson, Roy Orbison) / Drop, Drop Slow Tears (Orlando Gibbons)
- Agnus Dei (Samuel Barber)
- Deep River (spiritual, arr. Roy Ringwald)
- Gabriel’s Oboe (Ennio Morricone)
- Soneto de la Noche (Morten Lauridsen)
- When I Fall in Love (Edward Herman, arr. CHJ) / Nearer My God to Thee (Lowell Mason, arr. CHJ)
- What If (Eric Whitacre)
- Requiem (Eliza Gilkyson, arr. CHJ)
- 1000 Beautiful Things (Annie Lennox, arr. CHJ)
- Triptych (excerpt) III. Each shall rise (Tarik O’Regan)
- I Love You (Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill, arr. CHJ) / What a Wonderful World (Robert Thiele, George David Weiss, arr. CHJ)
- The First of My Lovers (Sydney Carter, arr. CHJ)