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'This beautifully performed and recorded CD contains the bulk of Whitacre's choral canon and displays his delicate yet vital approach to writing for voices. I guess if you like Tavener (or Pärt, who is strongly evoked in David), you'll enjoy Whitacre'
'I would certainly urge anyone with a love of choral singing to buy this disc, not merely to sample this atmospheric sound-world but to luxuriate in the gorgeous choral tone of Polyphony'
'Ethereal and chillingly beautiful choral works - an intense and moving aural experience'
'Whitacre has experienced enormous success recently, writing choral and wind ensemble music. It's not hard to see why, from this impeccably performed collection'
'A sign that the 36-year-old American choral composer Eric Whitacre has arrived is that he has been given the glamour treatment by Stephen Layton's magnificent Polyphony, one of the finest a capella choral ensembles active in the world...
Right. Stop making the coffee: leave the washing for two minutes, muzzle your children, pull over to the side of the road and listen to this.
Whitacre – I thank You God
This is the music of Eric Whitacre and if you haven’t heard about him you’re surely about to in a big way and there could be no better place to start than a new recording entitled CLOUDBURST dedicated entirely to his choral works...
Composer Eric Whitacre's new Hyperion release marks a most enjoyable collection of his works for (mostly) unaccompanied chorus.
Whitacre's overnight rise to becoming one of America's most successful choral composers is nothing if not remarkable. Like many of the younger generation of composers, he was raised on an omnivorous musical diet that made no distinction between "high" and "low" art. He...