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Stephen Layton MBE
Album cover: Whitacre: Cloudburst - Vinyl Edition

Cover: Radiance by Simon Cook (b1954)

Hyperion LPA67543 · September 2025

Whitacre: Cloudburst - Vinyl Edition

Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

Award nominations

  • Grammy Awards 2007USA · Best Choral Performance · for the original recording (CD release CDA67543, February 2006)

Selections and Editors’ Choices

  • Classic FM Natalie Wheen’s Best of 2006United Kingdom · for the original recording (CD release CDA67543, February 2006)

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Hyperion Records

Recorded: January 2005
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by Simon Eadon
Release date: September 2025
Total duration: 58 minutes 3 seconds
Format: LP (180g)

Track list
  1. Cloudburst La lluvia … Ojos de agua de sombraEric Whitacre (b1970)8'25
  2. Lux aurumque Lux, calida gravisque, pura velut aurumEric Whitacre (b1970)4'08
  3. A boy and a girl Stretched out on the grassEric Whitacre (b1970)4'25
  4. This Marriage May these vows and this marriage be blessedEric Whitacre (b1970)2'59
  5. I hide myself (No 1 of Three Flower Songs)Eric Whitacre (b1970)2'51
  6. With a lily in your hand O my night love! (No 2 of Three Flower Songs)Eric Whitacre (b1970)2'27
  7. Go, lovely Rose (No 3 of Three Flower Songs)Eric Whitacre (b1970)4'07
  8. When David heardEric Whitacre (b1970)12'57
  9. Sleep The evening hangs beneath the moonEric Whitacre (b1970)5'33
  10. Her sacred spirit soarsEric Whitacre (b1970)5'08
  11. Water Night Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles in the nightEric Whitacre (b1970)5'03

Recording details from Hyperion Records.