Light Eternal – Choral Music of Morten Lauridsen

Product Description A National Medal of Arts recipient and former composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (1994-2001), American choral composer Morten Lauridsen has gained recognition for his choral music the world over. On his 75th birthday this year, the Chamber Choir of Europe recorded Lauridsen’s landmark compositions, including two world premiere recordings, in close collaboration with the composer himself. Review My experience in producing and selling classical-music recordings is that most people don’t have formal training in music history or music theory, but they do want beauty in their lives, and they recognize it when they hear it. This is one of those recordings. If you care about choral music, especially contemporary American choral music, or if you simply want to add some beauty to your life, please vote with your wallet and buy this CD (or download), and also please consider buying half a dozen, a dozen, or more, as stocking stuffers (or, as holiday or even non-holiday gifts). Lauridsen’s music is contemporary music that honors the entire tradition of choral singing, from O magnum mysterium’s soundworld, which to me calls to mind the soundworld of Allegri, to Madrigali Six FireSongs on Italian Renaissance Poems, which is perhaps best described as modernism but with a heart and a soul. John Marks –John Marks