Joshua Habermann, Conductor

Silent Night: Christmas with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale

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Joshua Habermann, Conductor

Hail Cecilia was recorded live during Summer Festival 2009 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis Assisi, Loretto Chapel and Santuario de Guadalupe.

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Don Scott Carpenter, Conductor

Shalom was recorded at Temple Beth Shalom on December 19 and 21, 2008

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"A wide-ranging collection of well-known sacred choral standards, sung to perfection." – Simon Carrington, American Record Guide

Glorious Voices, Sacred Spaces, our great cathedral programming, opened
the Chorale's 26th consecutive season with a program that celebrates life and remembers death. This program consists of literature that ranges from the 16th century through the late 20th century. The selections on this program are some of the most celebrated works in the choral repertoire and were chosen to stir the heart and lift the soul. Conducted by Simon Carrington at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis with 24 singers, 2008.

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Over the last 25 years, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale has earned a reputation for artistic excellence as well as adventurous and widely varied programming, and this recording of the final performances of the 2007 summer season continues in that tradition! This limited edition CD captures the Desert Chorale presenting monumental works by Gregorio Allegri and Sergei Rachmaninoff live at the Cathedral Basilica St. Francis in Santa Fe on August 10 and 11, 2007. In addition, 32 Desert Chorale alumni singers - including members of the 1983 inaugural season - joined this season's choir in presenting Miserere, mei Deus. This recording is dedicated to the memory of Arthur "Mack" Wright, a wonderful friend and enthusiastic admirer of the Chorale's "glorious music." It is made possible by a generous gift from Mary Wright.

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Recorded live and in studio session, the works on this recording include choral settings commissioned from four American composers for the 2006 and 2007 summer seasons, in addition to folk music, sacred settings, and significant poetry. The first two tracks were recorded in August 2006 and the remaining works are drawn from the 2007 25^th Anniversary summer season. The Desert Chorale is proud to give voice to these exhilarating new and recent works from composers John David Earnest, Z. Randall Stroope, Kirke Mechem, Judith Cloud, Bradley Ellingboe and Emile Desamours. First Day was made possible by a generous gift from Jane Clayton Oakes.

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Recorded live at Santa Fe's Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis, the Chorale's holiday CD includes beloved carols from around the world, the majestic O Holy Night, John Rutter's lilting Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, Steven Heitzeg's charming setting of the e.e. cummings poem, little tree, and much more beautiful music of the season.

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This double CD, was recorded live before capacity audiences. An American Hallelujah features songs of faith, joy, and praise, reflecting our national heritage through the works of William Billings, Robert Shaw and Moses Hogan. Romance, led by Assistant Conductor and tenor Matthew Tresler, offers a sublime view of love – from Brahms to Lennon and McCartney.

Price:  $20 (Two disks)

A stunning collection of 20th and 21st century settings, primarily a cappella, that reflect the heart of human existence and emotions engendered by faith, love and life itself. The recording includes Morten Lauridsen’s beautiful, new Soneto de la Noche, Eric Whitacre’s poignant A Boy and a Girl, Osvaldo Golijov’s exciting Demos Gracias al Señor, and the first-ever choral arrangement of Bernstein’s brilliant Candide Overture, a tour de force that only the Desert Chorale could deliver.

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A treasury of sacred works by the finest composers from Spain and the New World – from the Renaissance majesty of Morales and Victoria to the Misa Criolla, one of the 20th century’s most beloved choral works. This is the program that was performed for a tour of Northern New Mexico historic churches during the summer of 2005.

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21 works from the 2004 summer festival that span a wide range of choral styles - from the early Renaissance to the Russian masters to Be Music, Night, the beautiful new work by New Mexico composer Bradley Ellingboe. Also includes the seldom-heard arrangement of Randall Thompson's Alleluia for women only.

The recording was made possible by the generous support of Mary and Arthur Wright and Sheila and Kirk Ellis.

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Dennis Shrock's final summer season with the Chorale is captured on this remarkable recording. Called "nothing short of magnificent" and "stunning...spirited and versatile," featuring works by Victoria, Bruckner, Schubert, Fauré, Schoenburg, and many others.

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Drawn from the Desert Chorale's spectacular twentieth anniversary summer season, the repertoire includes Renaissance, modern day sacred works, and secular pieces, as well as the beloved Biebl Ave Maria.

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Selections from the Desert Chorale’s highly acclaimed Great Chapel Music concerts, featuring the world premiere recording of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Ecstatic Meditations and a wide variety of other sacred and secular works by composers from Johannes Ciconia and Orlando di Lasso to Michael Hennagin, Alf Houkom, and Jacob Druckman.

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A collection of some of Maestro Shrock’s most memorable first performances with the Desert Chorale, featuring Johannes Brahms’ Fest- und Gedenksprücke and other sacred works by Josquin Desprez, Melchior Franck, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Pablo Casals. Also included are works by David Conte and Eric Whitacre, plus a variety of folksong settings.

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Viva La Festividad! In the 17th and 18th centuries Latin America was alive with the musical idioms of indigenous America, Africa and Europe. On this disk we happily include the rollicking rhythms of African-influenced folk carols, naïve hymns of faith from the pen of a Native American, and the sophisticated polyphony and counterpoint of Latin American composers schooled in the European tradition. Conducted by our founder, Lawrence Bandfield at the Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, NM- 1999.

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