SEMPITERNAM: Choral music by Rhona Clarke
SEMPITERNAM: Choral music by Rhona Clarke
State Choir LATVIJA
Conductor Māris Sirmais
Composer: Rhona Clarke
Choral music has always been a constant thread throughout the compositional development of Rhona Clarke (b. 1958). The works on this album range over a thirty year period and demonstrate the increasing individuality of her work, though rooted in the choral tradition of Ireland and Britain. Her chamber and instrumental works, in contrast, can reach out in far more extreme modernist styles. From the darkness of Ave Atque Vale to the sheer breathtaking beauty of Pie Jesu or Lullay, my Liking, Clarke shows herself here to be among the most effective, inspired and communicative choral composers of today. The album contains sacred works; from her Requiem which concentrates on the message of redemption and omits the judgemental sections, to Marian Anthems and three Christmas Carols; and also secular songs of love, loss and black comedy.
This is a program of the most wonderful choral music of today, which will have wide appeal.
Release date: February 2022
Compositions:
- O Vis Aeternitatis
- Two Marian Anthems – I. Regina Caeli
- Two Marian Anthems – II. Salve Regina
- Ave Atque Vale
- Three Carols on Medieval Texts – I. Glad and Blithe
- Three Carols on Medieval Texts – II. Lullay, my Liking
- Three Carols on Medieval Texts – III. Make we Merry
- Requiem – I. Introit
- Requiem – II. Lux Aeterna
- Requiem – III. Pie Jesu
- Requiem – IV. In Paradisum
- The Kiss
- A Song for St Cecilia’s Day
- Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep
- The Old Woman
- Rorate Caeli
