In another wonderful series of recordings from CORO VOLANTE, this disc highlights tremendous variety of approach to massed voices that is truly inspiring.

Mari Kotskyy’s I Sing of a Maiden is a setting of a Middle English lyric poem which seek to capture the calmness and astonishment of the Virgin Mary as she learns she is to give birth to the Son of God.

James Sproul’s In This Short Life is a setting of two short poems by Emily Dickinson inspired by the composers loss of his cousin at a very young age—a moving and powerful work.

Flos Carmeli Antiphon is Paul Portelli’s setting for four voices of this text most frequently associated with the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Kit Grahame’s The Tears of Two is a setting of Sonnet VI by Elizabeth Barrett Browning the subject of which is the power and force of enduring love.

Ed Frazier Davis’s Through the Wilderness of Worlds is a reflection on Davis’s four hundred mile pilgrimage from Pamplona to Santiago de Compostela. This mighty trek allowed the composer a unique experience of self and nature that he sets here to music in a work of utter beauty.

Vasiliy Medved’s Psalm 67 is a setting for choir and chimes the composer sees as an account of his personal redemption and is a tremendously evocative and emotional work.

Shuang Xu’s Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease is one of the best known work of Taoist literature. In his setting, Xu seeks to target a musical state of freedom and transcendence.

SangUn Kang’s Extraordinary Harmonical Alphabet Song is a literal setting of the English Alphabet that seeks, through different colors and harmonies and textures to create unique choral music that is bright, engaging, challenging and fun.

Ariel Sol Bertulfo Schwarz’s Willow Poem evokes the sense of depth and quietude of a lone willow tree standing stoically throughout the seasons.

Again, CORO VOLANTE rises to the extremely diverse challenges in this repertoire of new music by living composers!