Disc Details

Contents

Work Title	Composer
Alleluia	Eric Whitacre	Listen
Equus	Eric Whitacre	Listen
Goodnight Moon	Eric Whitacre	Listen
Her Sacred Spirit Soars	Eric Whitacre	Listen
Oculi Omnium	Eric Whitacre	Listen
The River Cam	Eric Whitacre	Listen
Sleep My Child	Eric Whitacre	Listen
Water Night for string orchestra	Eric Whitacre	Listen

Reviews

• At times on this second release for Decca, Whitacre 'does Whitacre' very well indeed. The positives are to be found in works which build upon the firm foundations laid down in his trademark choral style, as heard in the rich yet resourceful 'Alleluia' setting with opens 'Water Night'. Inspired by his short residency at Cambridge University last year, plainchant-style patterns weave in and around a sustained central note before broadening out on to a more expansive and expressive choral canvas. Likewise 'Oculi omnium', whose consonant-sounding clusters create wonderfully rippling effects.
  Pwyll ap Siôn, gramophone.co.uk, 01 May 2012