Angels Sing - Libera in America Liberation Music Orchestra

• 1 Beethoven / Arr Prizeman: Joyful, Joyful, We adore Thee (Live) 03:34
• 2 Lowry / Arr Prizeman: How can I keep from Singing (Live) 03:18
• 3 Trad / Arr Prizeman: Morning has Broken (Live) 03:09
• 4 Ward / Arr Prizeman: America the Beautiful (Live) 03:58
• 5 Trad / Arr Coates: Wayfaring Stranger (Live) 04:05
• 6 Trad / Arr Prizeman: Amazing Grace (Live) 03:49
• 7 Thiele & Weiss / Arr Prizeman: What a Wonderful World (Live) 04:14
• 8 Foster: The Prayer (Live) 04:34
• 9 Sibelius / Arr Prizeman: Be Still My Soul (Live) 03:57
• 10 Trad: How Great Thou Art (Live) 03:57
• 11 Skellern: Rest In Peace (Live) 03:17
• 12 Pachelbel / Arr Prizeman: Sanctus (Choral Version of Canon in D Major) [Live] 03:31
• 13 Muramatsu / Arr Prizeman: Song Of Life (Live) 03:25
• 14 Schubert / Arr Prizeman: Ave Maria D. 839 (Live) 04:25
• 15 Prizeman: Voca me (Live) 04:28
• 16 Prizeman: How Shall I Sing That Majesty (Live) 04:05
• Total Runtime 01:01:46

Info for Angels Sing - Libera in America

Libera, the celestial-sounding, chart-topping boy choir, brings its distinctive blend of innovative textures, meditative solos and shimmering, ecstatic choral harmonies, embedded in atmospheric instrumental arrangements, to a combination of religious and secular music.

The group recorded a live concert in Washington, D.C. at the spectacular Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. With Libera in America, the young Londoners pay tribute to their host country and church with a characteristic blend of sacred and secular music in both the classical and popular traditions, bringing together innovative textures, meditative solos and shimmering, ecstatic choral harmonies.

The album opens with Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee, inspired by Beethoven's 9th Symphony, and among the following tracks are some of Libera's greatest hits - including Sanctus, inspired by Johann Pachelbel's famous Canon, and Song of Life by the Japanese composer Takatsugu Muramatsu. These numbers are complemented by such universal sacred favorites as the haunting Amazing Grace and Schubert's soaring Ave Maria.

Libera

Libera
The distinctive sound of Libera has travelled the world in the last few years. The group's albums have topped both mainstream and classical charts in many countries, and their recordings hold their place in top-tens alongside major artists like Bocelli.

The boys who make up the vocal band Libera have been described as “normal” and “ordinary”. However, as their recordings and performances demonstrate, the music they produce is truly extraordinary. With shimmering, mystical chords and ecstatic harmonies, they are unlike any other group you have ever heard. These are truly sounds to lift the soul. Celestial sounds for a new time.

The singers of Libera who are aged seven to sixteen attend many different local schools in South London and come from a variety of backgrounds. Although they are boys and they sing, they do not think of themselves as choirboys, but rather as an alternative kind of boy band.

While the unique sound of Libera may be impossible to pigeonhole, its universal appeal has endeared the group to fans all over the world, particularly in the US, the UK, the Philippines, South Korea and Japan, where their CDs top the mainstream and classical charts and where they pack concert halls appearing in their trademark flowing white robes on imaginatively lit stages.

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