{"title":"VOCES8","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"a-choral-christmas","title":"A Choral Christmas","description":"\u003cp\u003eVOCES8, the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble, release their new album, A Choral Christmas via Decca Classics and showcasing a joyful, cinematic soundscape-packed hamper of choral and orchestral treats. A Christmas musical extravaganza filled with sparkling, cinematic new arrangements of favourite carols from US composer Taylor Scott Davis. Featuring several world premiere recordings of brand new works and arrangements, including the centrepiece of the album, a major new work for choir and orchestra, Taylor Scott Davis’s dazzling setting of the Magnificat, originally commissioned for VOCES8’s LIVE From London festival. Also includes a serene and intimate new a cappella carol The Sleeping Child from British composer Bob Chilcott written especially for VOCES8. Largest scale recording of VOCES8 to date – featuring the VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra for the first time, instrumental soloists and conducted by VOCES8’s co-founder and countertenor Barnaby Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decca Classics","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50432091128139,"sku":"2145863","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50432091685195,"sku":"2145864","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/VOCES8_20A_20Choral_20Christmas_1_ff84481d-9343-4c2d-a7_194a2039_thumbnail.webp?v=1726863286"},{"product_id":"nightfall-4","title":"Nightfall","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe world’s top-streaming classical vocal group VOCES8 presents a collection of reflective and transcendent music inspired by the night. Nightfall includes choral classics alongside contemporary arrangements and new choral versions of popular works by Ludovico Einaudi, Sigur Rós, Koji Kondo and Max Richter. The album opens and closes with contemplative psalm settings by South Korean composer of Squid Game and Parasite, Jaeil Jung.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e['jung jaeil • psalm 22.21', 'Sigur Rós • Fljótavík', 'Max Reger • Nachtlied', 'Taylor Scott Davis • Stardust', 'Ludovico Einaudi • Experience', 'Hugo Alfvén • Aftonen', 'Max Richter • On the Nature of Daylight', 'Caroline Shaw • and the swallow', 'Kim André Arnesen • Even When He Is Silent', \"Koji Kondo • Zelda's Lullaby\", 'Dan Forrest • Good Night Dear Heart', 'Lucy Walker • O Nata Lux', 'Kerensa Briggs • Media Vita', 'Frank Ticheli • There Will Be Rest', 'jung jaeil • psalm 10.1']\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decca","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50438401327435,"sku":"2209279","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Voces8_Nightfall_3000_d293a4b4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726942228"},{"product_id":"home-48","title":"Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwo branches of choral royalty entwine with majestic harmony on the latest release from Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre and acclaimed vocal ensemble VOCES8. The album includes a world premiere, All Seems Beautiful To Me, and a new recording of Whitacre’s deeply moving 2019 cantata The Sacred Veil.  The five-minute work All Seems Beautiful To Me is based on a poem by Walt Whitman (from Song of the Open Road) celebrating the human spirit’s capacity for generosity and growth. It was commissioned by the United States Air Force Band and here receives its world premiere recording. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso included is a new recording of one of Whitacre’s most frequently performed and much loved pieces, The Seal Lullaby.  The album also includes Sing Gently and Go, Lovely Rose. The former was composed during lockdown specially for Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, made up of over 17,500 singers from 124 different countries. The latter was Whitacre’s first ever composition, written 30 years ago, and thus the new album is also, in part, a joyful celebration of his three decades as a composer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The longest work is the twelve-movement, hour-long 2019 cantata The Sacred Veil for choir, cello (Emma Denton), and piano (Christopher Glynn). The text, by Whitacre’s close friend and long-time collaborator Charles Anthony Silvestri, commemorates the death of the poet’s young wife Julie from ovarian cancer. It journeys from the growth of their love, through the birth of their children, to their struggle with the illness. One particularly striking section ‘You Rise, I Fall’ involves extraordinary descending and ascending tone-clusters mirroring the emotional states of the dying woman and her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Decca Classics","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50506664247627,"sku":"2022808","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50506664083787,"sku":"2008985","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Home_9ef3d451_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727826834"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/voces8.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}