Christmas with Solaris includes a festive array of holiday selections for mixed voices with harp, flute and piano. Stirring arrangements of beloved carols including Silent Night, What Child is This and Ding! Dong! Merrily on High are featured along with premieres of two arrangements by Solaris member and Vermont Public Radio host, James Stewart – Hark the Herald Angels Sing and O Come, O Come Emmanuel.  Additional highlights include Dominique Argento’s ecstatic setting of the Gloria from his opera, The Masque of Angels and Gustav Holst’s Christmas Day.

Sing We Now of Christmas
Silent Night Gail Whitehouse, soprano
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Gloria from The Masque of Angels
In the Bleak Midwinter
Ding! Dong! Merrily on High
What Child is This?
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
This Endris Night
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening from Frostiana
Carol of the Birds
Christmas Day

Solaris Vocal Ensemble’s CD, I Was Glad, includes songs of hope, love and joy.  Three of the tracks feature works with full organ accompaniment including C. Hubert H. Parry’s I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, Randall Thompson’s The Last Words of David and Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Let All the World in Every Corner Sing with Dr. Susan Summerfield at the organ.  Additional highlights include Charles Villiers Stanford’s ethereal The Blue Bird and The Road Home by Stephen Paulus along with the Alice Parker/Robert Shaw arrangement of the early American hymn Wondrous Love.

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  1. The Last Words of David
  2. The Blue Bird
  3. Let All the World in Every Corner Sing
  4. The Road Home
  5. Saints Bound for Heaven
  6. Wondrous Love
  7. Brothers Sing On
  8. I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me
  9. Ballade to the Moon
  10. Study War No More
  11. Joy Be with You All
Vivat Musica—Music is Life! 

A celebration of love, joy and life! Ageless classics to new works for chamber choir. Featuring selections by Dvorak, Holst, Lauridsen, Gjeilo and Clausen.

 

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  1. Vivat Musica
  2. The Water Is Wide
  3. 6 Choral Folksongs, Op. 36: V. I Love My Love
  4. O My Luve’s Like a Red, Red Rose
  5. Northern Lights
  6. Songs of Nature: IV. Slender Young Birch
  7. Sure on This Shining Night
Times Argus review of the Echoes CD
Solaris is proud to release our joint recording project Echoes—The Choral Music of Richard Stoehr.  A highly acclaimed composer and teacher at the Vienna Academy of Music, Stoehr fled Austria at th beginning of WWII.  Following a teaching position at the renowned Curtis Institute, Stoehr spent the latter part of his life and his career composing and teaching Music courses and German at Saint Michael’s College.  Stoehr’s gift for composing lyrical melodies supported by rich harmonies is evident throughout this recording of classical choral works.  In addition to selections by Solaris Vocal Ensemble, this CD includes choral works recorded by Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble and Bella Voce Women’s Chorus.

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  1. Spring by Bella Voce Women’s Chorus
  2. Echoes by Bella Voce Women’s Chorus
  3. Cradle Song Bella Voce Women’s Chorus
  4. Psalm 62 by Counterpoint
  5. Psalm 67 by Counterpoint
  6. Psalm 24 by Counterpoint
  7. Armseelchen by Bella Voce Women’s Chorus
  8. Schneeflocken by Bella Voce Women’s Chorus
  9. The Great Adventurer by Solaris Vocal Ensemble
  10. A Grace for Christmas by Solaris Vocal Ensemble & Counterpoint
  11. Nachtlied by Counterpoint
  12. Crossing the Bar by Solaris Vocal Ensemble
  13. Ave Maria by Solaris Vocal Ensemble & Counterpoint