To Sing of Love VOCES8 Foundation Choir, VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra & Jack Liebeck

• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976): Rejoice in the Lamb:
• 1 Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb (Orch. by Imogen Holst) 16:56
• The Lark Ascending:
• 2 The Lark Ascending (Arr. for violin and mixed choir by Paul Drayton, Adapted by Barnaby Smith) 14:52
• Rebecca Dale: The Cloths of Heaven:
• 3 Dale: The Cloths of Heaven (Orch. by Iain Farrington) 03:48
• 4 To Sing of Love - A Triptych: Prelude 02:46
• 5 To Sing of Love - A Triptych: I. Effortlessly 04:18
• 6 To Sing of Love - A Triptych: II. Perilously 09:22
• 7 To Sing of Love - A Triptych: III. Generously 06:58
• Eric Whitacre (b. 1970): Sleep:
• 8 Whitacre: Sleep (Orch. by Jim Clements) 05:57
• Total Runtime 01:04:57

Info for To Sing of Love

"To Sing of Love" ist die neue Aufnahme von The VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra mit dem virtuosen Violinisten Jack Liebeck unter der Leitung von Barnaby Smith, die am 7. Juni bei VOCES8 Records erscheint. Die glitzernde Klangwelt aus Chor und Orchester, die sich um die Themen Schönheit, Liebe und Natur dreht, umfasst neben der Weltpremiere von Taylor Scott Davis' neuem Konzert To Sing of Love: a Triptych und Brittens Rejoice in the Lamb, orchestriert von Imogen Holst, auch Welturaufführungen berühmter Werke von Vaughan Williams, Eric Whitacre und Rebecca Dale. Die Veröffentlichung der Weltpremiere von To Sing of Love: A Triptych folgt auf die Weihnachtsveröffentlichung von Taylors Magnificat- und Weihnachtslied-Arrangements, die vom BBC Music Magazine in einer 5-Sterne-Kritik als "funkelnd [und] umwerfend" bezeichnet wurden. Das Wall Street Journal beschrieb Taylors "träumerische Gesangslinien", die "sich überschneiden und zu einem atemberaubenden Effekt verdichten", während der renommierte Geigenvirtuose Jack Liebeck für seine jüngste Interpretation des Violinkonzerts in d-Moll von Vaughan Williams auf dem Album Retrospect vom Gramophone Editor's Choice für März 2024 ausgezeichnet wurde: "Jack Liebeck ist ein hervorragender Fürsprecher für das belebend straffe Violinkonzert in d-Moll.... und destilliert eine sinnliche Wärme und ein entrücktes Leuchten, das Sie in Ihren Bahnen halten wird."

Jack Liebeck, Violine
VOCES8 Foundation Choir
VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra
Barnaby Smith, künstlerischer Leiter

VOCES8
The 2023 Grammy-nominated British vocal ensemble VOCES8 is proud to inspire people through music and share the joy of singing. Touring globally, the group performs an extensive repertory both in its a cappella concerts and in collaborations with leading musicians, orchestras, conductors and soloists. Versatility and a celebration of diverse musical expression are central to the ensemble’s performance and education ethos which is shared both online and in person.

VOCES8 has performed at many notable venues since its inception in 2005 including Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Berlin Philharmonie, Cité de la Musique Paris, Vienna Konzerthaus, Tokyo Opera City, NCPA Beijing, Sydney Opera House, Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, Victoria Concert Hall Singapore, Palacio de Bellas Artes Mexico City amongst many others. This season they perform over 100 concerts in the UK, across Europe, the USA, Australia and Asia.

They have collaborated in concert and in the recording studio with musicians including Paul Simon, Jacob Collier, Eric Whitacre, Christopher Tin, Olafur Arnalds, Cody Fry, Rachel Podger, Jack Liebeck, Bomsori Kim, Jonathan Dove, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra and others.

VOCES8 is passionate about music education and is the flagship ensemble of music charity the VOCES8 Foundation which actively promotes ‘Music Education For All’. Engaging in a broad range of in-person outreach work that reaches up to 40,000 people a year, the Foundation runs an annual programme of workshops and masterclasses at the VOCES8 Centre at St Anne & St Agnes Church, London. Dedicated to supporting promising young singers, VOCES8 awards eight annual choral scholarships through the VOCES8 Scholars initiative. These scholarships are linked to the annual Milton Abbey Summer School at which amateur singers of all ages learn and perform with VOCES8. Through the separate VOCES8 USA Foundation there is another set of twelve talented Scholars

VOCES8’s entrepreneurial and community spirit is fostered by Co-Founders Paul and Barnaby Smith. The Covid-19 pandemic gave the impetus for VOCES8 to transform its already exceptional offerings, nurturing a new online audience community providing a chance to engage with classical music in new ways. Pioneering initiatives include the LIVE From London online festival and the VOCES8 Digital Academy.

LIVE From London was created as a specific response to the pandemic. Winning praise for its collaborative approach with artists, press and audiences around the world the team has delivered ten digital festivals to date, broadcasting over 100 concerts and selling 250,000 tickets around the world. The VOCES8 Digital Academy is an online choral programme for high schools, colleges and individuals featuring live interaction with members of the ensemble, live and recorded lectures, and video resources to learn and perform music from the renaissance to today. Both LIVE From London and the Digital Academy is filmed by VOCES8 Studios, the in-house recording company.

VOCES8 Studios, the in-house recording company. Alongside their online work VOCES8 is heard regularly on albums, international television and radio. The ensemble is a Decca Classics artist, also releasing on its own label, VOCES8 Records. The Decca Classics recording of Christopher Tin’s “The Lost Birds” featuring VOCES8 and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy-Award in 2023. The newest albums are “Home” conducted by Eric Whitacre, featuring his extraordinary work “The Sacred Veil” which reached the top of the classical charts in both the UK and USA, and “Seven Psalms” by Paul Simon in which VOCES8 was thrilled to participate. In the run-up to Christmas 2023 VOCES8 joins its own Foundation Choir and Orchestra in “A Choral Christmas”, a joyful selection of favourite carols with sparkling new arrangements for choir and featuring the premiere recording of Taylor Scott Davis’s “Magnificat”.

VOCES8 is proud to be working with Ken Burton as the group’s Composer-in-Residence and Jim Clements as Arranger-in-Residence. The ensemble has premiered commissions from Jonathan Dove, Roxanna Panufnik, Roderick Williams, Paul Smith, Jocelyn Hagen, Melissa Dunphy, Ken Williams, Taylor Scott Davis, Alexander Levine, Alexia Sloane, Alec Roth, Ben Parry, Ola Gjeilo, Mårten Jansson, Philip Stopford, Graham Lack, Thomas Hewitt Jones and Owain Park. They publish arrangements of its music, original compositions and educational material with the new digital VOCES8 Publishing house, and with Edition Peters. The VOCES8 Method written by Paul Smith is a renowned and unique teaching tool now available in four languages that adopts music to enhance development in numeracy, literacy and linguistics.

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