Latvian Radio Choir & Genevieve Lacey

Join them as they look to the skies for dancing planets and soaring birds in the music of Pēteris Vasks. Get lost in the sheer beauty of Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat and listen to the world’s first singers in Hollis Taylor’s Bird on Byrd . Then experience an uplifting new commission from iconic Latvian composer, Ērik Ešenvalds, setting the words of multi-award-winning Australian author and poet, Alexis Wright.

[Lacey plays with] wit, sensuality, and mind-boggling flamboyance The Guardian

This chorus’s expertise in music pushes voices to extremes, from ethereal high tones to uncannily sustained bass drones The New York Times

The girl thought that she could hear ghost music, black swans whispering, descending in never-ending ribbons, gathering into flocks of thousands Alexis Wright, The Swan Book

Program

Caroline Shaw
And the Swallow

Van Eyck
Engels Nachtegaeltje

Pärt
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis

Mendelssohn
Psalm XXII ‘Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen’

Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose
Bird on Byrd (New Commission)

Palestrina
Diminutions on Pulchra es anima mea

Pēteris Vasks
Our Mothers' Names

Ēriks Ešenvalds
Ceremony of Swans (New commission)

Special thanks to Ensemble Patrons Ian Dickson AM & Reg Holloway for their generous support of this tour.

Artists

Latvian Radio Choir

Kaspars Putniņš
Artistic Director

Genevieve Lacey
Recorders