Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna Los Angeles Master Chorale
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- Release Date: 05/19/1998
- Sales Rank: 459
- Label: RUBEDO CANIS MUSICA
- UPC: 707651970521
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Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna | ||
| 1. | Lux Aeterna, for chorus & orchestra 27:33 | |
| Composed by Morten Lauridsen | ||
| Performed by Los Angeles Master Chorale, Paul Salamunovich and Los Angeles Sinfonia Orchestra | ||
| Conducted by Paul Salamunovich | ||
| 2. | Les Chansons des Roses, for chorus 16:29 | |
| Composed by Morten Lauridsen | ||
| Performed by Los Angeles Master Chorale, Paul Salamunovich and Morten Lauridsen | ||
| Conducted by Paul Salamunovich | ||
| 3. | Ave Maria, for chorus 7:25 | |
| Composed by Morten Lauridsen | ||
| Performed by Los Angeles Master Chorale and Paul Salamunovich | ||
| Conducted by Paul Salamunovich | ||
| 4. | Mid-Winter Songs, for chorus & orchestra 19:10 | |
| Composed by Morten Lauridsen | ||
| Performed by Los Angeles Master Chorale, Paul Salamunovich and Los Angeles Sinfonia Orchestra | ||
| Conducted by Paul Salamunovich | ||
| 5. | O Magnum Mysterium, for chorus 5:38 | |
| Composed by Morten Lauridsen | ||
| Performed by Los Angeles Master Chorale and Paul Salamunovich | ||
| Conducted by Paul Salamunovich | ||
Editorial Reviews
During a recent membership drive, we offered my KUSC audience a copy of Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna as a thank-you gift to those who joined. Our phones rang off the hook. This hypnotically beautiful album from the small but enterprising RCM label might be characterized as contemporary vocal music for people who don't think they like contemporary vocal music, for the first recording of the ravishing "Lux Aeterna" by this Los Angeles-based composer demonstrates that it is possible for contemporary music to speak directly to the heart.
Composed in 1997 for the Los Angeles Master Chorale -- who, not surprisingly, perform the work as though it had been written just for them -- "Lux Aeterna" is a rich, complex, intensely moving piece that people will be listening to for a long time to come. While the idiom is no more threatening than that of the better-known English composer John Rutter, the music itself is of far greater substance and depth.
The other works on the album are no less lovely, especially "Les Chansons des Roses," which has a fair claim to being the finest Rilke setting yet made by an American composer. Paul Salamunovich extracts brilliant performances from his superbly drilled ensemble, and the recorded sound is superb.
If you think that modern music is largely confined to the mindless delights of minimalism or incomprehensible noise, then this wonderfully human music will prove how wrong you are. Jim Svejda, Barnes & Noble
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