UPC: 747313273775.

James Whitbourn is known for his 'boundless breadth of choral imagination' (The Observer) resulting in compositions of brilliance and power. His extraordinary work for choir, saxophone and organ, Son of God Mass, receives a new recording from the young voices of one of the finest chamber choirs from Rider University's Westminster Choir College under one of the leading American choral conductors, James Jordan. It is heard alongside premiere recordings of other works associated with life and death, including the Requiem canticorum and Living Voices, a work to commemorate the date of 9/11 with a poem by Andrew Motion. The luminosity and sheer beauty of Whitbourn's composing style is brought to unusual heights by the skills of the Williamson Voices and their conductor, James Jordan. The entire album is a collection of choral music with a spiritual center. The composer's use of saxophone and organ, interweaving with those lovely young Westminster voices, attain a kind of choral glory unusual for any music, extraordinary for 'contemporary' music. The album soothes, stretches, pulls the listener to places of fascination and high emotion, captivates and can often amaze. It is an exalted achievement. — Roger Ames A truly stunning recording.

SKU: BT.DHP-1135489-060

9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

GLOBAL ANIMAL consists of six witty humoresques, each depicting an extraordinary creature. Thereâ??s the Australian dancing buck that loves to dance in pairs, a down-in-the-dumps Egyptian hippo in a permanent grouse with the world, or the dastardlySouthern European trill mosquito. The extinct Mongolian striped lion is deeply mourned, while the arctic numbskull is so shy that heâ??s never been spotted. Then thereâ??s the continuous shriek of the Columbian screeching ape thatâ??s hard to miss.(Accordion I-II-III-Electronium-Accordion IV-Bass-Percussion)

Global Animals consists of six witty humoresques, each depicting an extraordinary creature.Thereâ??s the Australian dancing buck that loves to dance in pairs, a down-in-the-dumps Egyptian hippo in a permanent grouse with the world, or the dastardly Southern European trill mosquito.The extinct Mongolian striped lion is deeply mourned, while the arctic numbskull is so shy that heâ??s never been spotted. Then thereâ??s the continuous shriek of the Columbian screeching ape thatâ??s hard to miss.

Global Animals besteht aus sechs tierisch-witzigen Humoresken über ungewöhnliche Tiere unseres Planeten:

Da gibt es den australischen Tanzbock, der gerne zu zweit tanzt, ein ägyptisches, sehr weinerlichen Flusspferd, das mit sich und der Welt unzufrieden ist, oder die heimtückische südeuropäische Trillermücke. Dem verstorbenen mongolischen Streifenlöwenwird in tiefer Trauer die letzte Ehre erwiesen, während die einfältige arktische Dumpfbacke so scheu ist, dass kaum jemand sie je gesehen hat. Der permanent kreischende, kolumbianische Schreiaffe ist dagegen kaum zu überhören.