GLORIA
Genre : Classical
Catalogue: Phasma-Music 072
UPC: 731093480539
recording, editing: Volodymyr Punko
mastering: Volodymyr Punko
recorded in January-June, 2023 in Lviv National Philharmonic Concert Hall, Ukraine
production management: Iwona Glinka
front cover and graphic design: Michail Travlos
premiere: March 24, 2024.
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 The first recording of the unpublished opera Alcide by the eighteenth-century composer Dmytro Bortnyansky that the choir, together with the Leopolis Chamber Orchestra, produced for the National TV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]