Program 838: 20th and 21st Century Group Vocal Works
KALW Broadcast Date: August 31, 2025 | Host: Rachel Schonfeld
This program features the ensemble and choral music of the late 20th and 21st century from a global perspective. Featuring Zosha di Castri’s We live opposite daring with Ekmeles based on an excerpt of Sappho’s poetry, Sydney Guillaume’s Kalinda based on the Caribbean martial art practice, Kåre Kolberg’s Plym-Plym for mixed choir and vocal quartet, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s Five Kurpian Songs, Op. 75 based on folk songs and texts from the Kurpie region in Poland, Bik Kam Lee’s electroacoustic Tong Gen Sheng, André Laporte’s De profundis, Toru Takemitsu’s joyful Utau Duke, and Caroline Shaw’s award-winning Partita for 8 Voices with Roomful of Teeth. These pieces range from a Classical arrangement of choral voices to extended vocal techniques and sound poetry.
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Title: Poems of Animals (1983)
Composer: Akira Miyoshi
Performers: Chorale OMP, Yoko Tanaka, Fumiaki Kuriyama
Recording Title: Umi (The Sea): Akira Miyoshi Choral Works
Record Label: Camerata
Catalog Number: 32CM-28
Title: De profundis (2006)
Composer: André Laporte
Performers: Flemish Radio Orchestra & Choir
Recording Title: André Laporte: Symphonic and Vocal Works
Record Label: Fuga Libera
Catalog Number: FUG523
Title: We live the opposite daring (2022)
Composer: Zosha di Castri
Performers: Ekmeles – Charlotte Mundy, Elisa Sutherland, Timothy Parsons, Tomás Cruz, Jeffrey Gavett, and Steven Hrycelak
Recording Title: We live the opposite daring
Record Label: New Focus Recordings
Catalog Number: FCR394
Title: Plym-Plym (1967)
Composer: Kåre Kolberg
Performers: Tone Braaton, Ingrid Hanken, Ebba Rydh, Per Kristian Amundrød, Frank Harvøy, and Trond Reinholdtsen
Recording Title: Nordic Voices / Dfånki don
Record Label: Norwegian Aurora Contemporary Music
Catalog Number: ACD5055
Title: chOirland (2018)
Composer: David Fennessy
Performer: Chamber Choir Ireland
Recording Title: We are Ireland: Emerging Irish Music
Record Label: Contemporary Music Centre
Title: Kalinda (2004)
Composer: Sydney Guillaume
Performers: University of Miami Chorale, Jo-Michael Scheibe
Recording Title: What Dreams May Come
Record Label: Albany Records
Catalog Number: TROY-707
Title: Psalm 130, Op. 50B (1995)
Composer: Arnold Schoenberg
Performers: Südfunk Chor Stuttgart, Robert Huber
Recording Title: Arnold Schoenberg: Choral Works
Record Label: Arte Nova Classics
Catalog Number: 74321 27799 2
Title: Utau Dake (1994)
Composer: Toru Takemitsu
Performers: Shin-Yu Kai Choir, Shin Sekiya
Recording Title: A Song of Circles and Triangles
Record Label: Philips Digital Classics
Catalog Number: 438 135-2
Title: Partita for 8 Voices (2013)
Composer: Caroline Shaw
Performers: Roomful of Teeth, Brad Wells
Recording Title: Partita for 8 Voices
Record Label: New Amsterdam
Catalog Number: NWAM078
Title: Five Kurpian Songs, op.75
Composer: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Performers: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Paul Hillier; conductor
Recording Title: Baltic Voices 3
Record Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog Number: HMU907391
