Advent 2014 Musica Vocal School Maša Simčič - soprano Neja Šavle - alto Aleš Magajne - baritone Luka Trček - bass Robert Feguš - tenor, artistic director http://www.musicaensemble.org

Veljo Tormis: Laulu algus (The Beginning of song) Hando Runnel Downtown Voices http://DowntownVoices.net Stephen Sands, Conductor http://StephenSands.net TRANSLATION: Listen! Faraway centuries, on the shores of Estonia there once began a ...  moreVeljo Tormis: Laulu algus (The Beginning of song) Hando Runnel Downtown Voices http://DowntownVoices.net Stephen Sands, Conductor http://StephenSands.net TRANSLATION: Listen! Faraway centuries, on the shores of Estonia there once began a song. In the language of mothers, the spirit of fathers it was carried across to us. In sonorous language, in the spirit of a million it lives on. This song began in a dusky time and was born from the work of voiceless ones. This song was born in a lowly house and it rose as an oath in the night. . A powerless clan began listening, the song was good for the soul, for it spoke a heavenly story, that freedom must come to them. And the powerless clan awoke, and felt the heads on their shoulders. This song will not die, nor this story, this song for us is good. I stepped out to start my voice, ringing on the rocky hillside, lifting up the celebration, cheering up the ring of friends. I know my friend...    less

A cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams in an arrangement for SATB by John Whittaker (2022) Performance (recorded in May 2022) by Berks Sinfonietta and Vox Philia, Reading, PA, USA. Dr. David A. McConnell, Artistic Director www.voxphilia.org and www.berks...  moreA cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams in an arrangement for SATB by John Whittaker (2022) Performance (recorded in May 2022) by Berks Sinfonietta and Vox Philia, Reading, PA, USA. Dr. David A. McConnell, Artistic Director www.voxphilia.org and www.berkssinfonietta.org Performed under license from Oxford University Press. For more details of this arrangement, contact John Whittaker, MJWhittaker@Googlemail.com  

O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM : Ivo Antognini, composer University of Johannesburg Choir - Renette Bouwer, choirmaster Recorded on 21 October 2013 by Alli Heyns in Randburg NG Kerk (South Africa)

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day Traditional English/arr. Shaw & Parker Recorded live December 16, 2023 St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Dallas, TX

"If Christ had been Born in Another Time" by Matthew Orlovich. Saturday, December 3, 2016 Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL

The Samford University A Cappella Choir singing "I am the secret fire in all things" by John Ratledge at the Florilege Vocal de Tours: International Song Competition, May 25-27, 2012. Philip Copeland, conductor. This piece was commissioned for Philip Cope...  moreThe Samford University A Cappella Choir singing "I am the secret fire in all things" by John Ratledge at the Florilege Vocal de Tours: International Song Competition, May 25-27, 2012. Philip Copeland, conductor. This piece was commissioned for Philip Copeland and the Samford A Cappella Choir and premiered at the competition.