Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen has cultivated an accessible, tonal idiom that has earned him a strong following in his native Trondheim, and also in the U.S., where his attractive choral writing suits his music to the growing group of strong regional vocal ensembles. The Denver choir Kantorei is one of those, and Naxos supports them well with warm, clear sound captured at Denver's First Plymouth Congregational Church. One of the works here, the Cradle Hymn, was even performed at the White House for President Barack ...
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Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen has cultivated an accessible, tonal idiom that has earned him a strong following in his native Trondheim, and also in the U.S., where his attractive choral writing suits his music to the growing group of strong regional vocal ensembles. The Denver choir Kantorei is one of those, and Naxos supports them well with warm, clear sound captured at Denver's First Plymouth Congregational Church. One of the works here, the Cradle Hymn, was even performed at the White House for President Barack Obama. You could sample that for an instance of Arnesen's calm idiom and also for his effortless way of moving between different kinds of texts and inflecting his musical language slightly for each. The Cradle Hymn is set to a text by the 18th century hymn composer Isaac Watts, and Arnesen hits just the right sober yet personal note in his setting, impressive in that his first language is not English. He also uses simple contemporary poetry, other English poets, traditional Latin...
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