Lauridsen, Morten - Nocturnes and other Choral Music - Polyphony

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"Stephen Layton tolkar med utsökt känsla de subtila klangerna..."
(Skånska Dagbladet)

While their recording of Eric Whitacre (CDA67543) continues its chart-topping run on both sides of the Atlantic,
Stephen Layton and Polyphony have returned to the studio and put down a second disc devoted to the choral music
of Whitacre’s compatriot Morten Lauridsen.
The popular cycles Mid-Winter Songs and Les chansons des roses (the final number of which, Dirait-on, caused something
of a publishing sensation on its first appearance) are joined by four premiere recordings: two early Psalm settings, and
two new works written during the preparations for this recording.
Performances from Layton and his portfolio of musicians are every bit as polished as we have come to expect.
Polyphony is joined by the Britten Sinfonia for the Mid-Winter Songs, Andrew Lucas for the organ-accompanied Psalm,
and the composer himself—proving Lauridsen to be a master of sympathetic pianism (as well as a digital cymbalist).
This new disc is certainly a worthy successor to the Grammy-nominated Lux aeterna.



Also available:

MORTEN LAURIDSEN (b1943) Lux aeterna Compact Disc CDA67449; Super Audio Compact Disc SACDA67449

POLYPHONY/STEPHEN LAYTON



‘Layton and company have
here produced the finest I’ve heard among several excellent collections of Lauridsen’s work. None are quite as exquisitely nuanced or sung with such
glowing vocal sheen as this … no committed choral fan or singer will ever regret letting Lauridsen into his life’

(American Record Guide on CDA 67449)