Gloria Chamber Choir

Volodymyr Syvokhip, conductor

Olga Striletska, harp (track 05, CD 2), piano (track 07 CD 2)

The GLORIA CHAMBER CHOIR was founded in the city of Lviv, Ukraine in the early 1990s. Since 1999 the artistic director and conductor of the choir is Volodymyr Syvokhip. The choir was among the first to revive Ukrainian religious music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that had been almost totally forbidden in Ukraine by the Soviet authorities from the 1920s to the 1980s. Western church music and works that have never or rarely been performed in Ukraine became a distinguished component of its repertoire: Kanon Pokajanen by Pärt, Mass by Stravinsky, and choral works by Bach and Haydn. The first recording of the unpublished opera Alcide by the eighteenth-century composer Dmytro Bortnyansky that the choir, together with the Leopolis Chamber Orchestra, produced for the National TV and Radio Broadcasting Company of Ukrainian, as well as several CDs with Ukrainian music, are important achievements for Gloria.

The album GLORIA features 17 choral works (world premiere recordings)  by 13 living composers: Ruth Alon, Aris Carastathis, Lars Michael Fetzek, Brian Field, Hari Kanakis, Sotirios Melissis, Richard Pressley, William Price, Louis Sauter, José Jesus de Azevedo Souza, Gabriele Spampinato, Alan Terricciano and Man-Ching Donald Yu. 

CD 1 

Ruth Alon

01. Though [05:01]

Aris Carastathis

02. In Peace and Paradise [05:24]

Lars Michael Fetzek

03. Symmetrical Passacaglia with Autological Canons  [04:19]

Brian Field

04. Two Together [03:17]

Hari Kanakis

05. A breath away [05:44]

06. Hands [02:59]

07. Identity [05:20]

08. Summer Cinema [05:50]

Sotirios Melissis

09. Prayer  [05:38]

Richard Pressley

10. I Will Betroth You to Me  [02:36] 

Total time:  [46:15] 

CD 2

William Price

11. Grant Us Peace  [02:54]

Louis Sauter

12. Lux æterna  [02:57] 

José Jesus de Azevedo Souza 

13. The Dream  [07:40]

Gabriele Spampinato

14. Hymn of the Seraphim  [04:35]

Alan Terricciano 

15. Gray Goose and Gander  [10:17]

16. Iguanas en la Nieve  [10:47]

Man-Ching Donald Yu 

17. Elevation  [08:31]

Total time:   [47:44]