Cover: Michael by Arild Rosenkrantz (1870-1964)
Hyperion CDA67832 · July 2011
Various - Beyond all mortal dreams
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton (conductor)
- GRAMMY NOMINATION 2012
- CLASSIC FM CD OF THE WEEK
- CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE CD OF THE MONTH
- CLASSIC FM 'DISC OF THE MONTH'
Press
Audiophile Audition2011This album is a dual celebration of sorts; American choral music coming into its own as a distinct and vibrant force particularly in the last couple of decades; and its emergence as a powerful voice on the British cultural scene…Read the review 
classicstoday.com2011Stephen Layton and the Trinity College Choir unearth choral works of rare beauty. First, a health warning: it is impossible to do anything else but listen once the opening track of this glorious album begins. Don’t pop it on your…Read the review 
Classic FM Magazine2011Stephen Layton and the Trinity College Choir unearth choral works of rare beauty. First, a health warning: it is impossible to do anything else but listen once the opening track of this glorious album begins. Don’t pop it on your…Read the review 
mattnielsen.com2011When I first heard that Trinity College was putting out a recording of all American music I started salivating. I had the opportunity to hear them live on their home turf last year. Our study abroad group made a stop in Cambridge…Read the review 
Gramophone Magazine2011If this is a representative cross-section of unaccompanied American choral music since the Second World War, it shows a genre in which beauty of sound and an atmosphere of prayerfulness are the chief characteristics. With the…Read the review 
Interlude.hk2011Some of the best choral discs, in my mind, have come from British choirs exploring repertoire outside of the English choral tradition. So many of the staples of the cathedral, church and college chapel diet have been recorded so…Read the review 
wqxr.org2011Is there a contemporary American choral music sound? A growing number of American composers have banded around a style based on rich harmonies, luxurious textures and a spare expressive ethos. Led by figures like Eric Whitacre…Read the review 
San Francisco Classical Voice2011The U.S. and Canada may be secular nations, but you’d never know it from Beyond All Mortal Dreams: American A Cappella(Hyperion), the latest CD from the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge. All but 5 of theCD’s 19 selections by…Read the review 
American Record Guide2011Over an hour's worth of American music recorded by a British choir and none of it was composed by Eric Whitacre or Morten Lauridsen! The real story, though, is that this is a spiritually uplifting anthology of exquisite music…Read the review 
Music Web International2011All but two of the composers represented here are still alive, so the word “contemporary” might easily have been added to its title. But then, that might have put people off; best avoid it, perhaps. Choral conductors will be…Read the review
Recorded: July 2010
Produced by Adrian Peacock
Engineered by David Hinitt
Release date: July 2011
Total duration: 68 minutes 24 seconds
Track list
- Tonight eternity aloneRené Clausen (b1953)3'38
- Three New Motets 'in memoriam Thomas Tallis': O admirabile commerciumSteven Stucky (1949-2016)4'07
- Three New Motets 'in memoriam Thomas Tallis': O sacrum conviviumSteven Stucky (1949-2016)2'52
- Three New Motets 'in memoriam Thomas Tallis': O vos omnesSteven Stucky (1949-2016)4'42
- SanctusOla Gjeilo (b1978)4'54
- Hildegard Triptych: O vis aeternitatisFrank Ferko (b1950)4'59
- Hildegard Triptych: Caritas abundatFrank Ferko (b1950)3'00
- Hildegard Triptych: O virtus sapientiaeFrank Ferko (b1950)2'18
- Lux aeternaEdwin Fissinger (1920-1990)7'50
- Fair in faceHealey Willan (1880-1968)2'08
- I beheld her, beautiful as a doveHealey Willan (1880-1968)2'09
- Rise up, my love, my fair oneHealey Willan (1880-1968)1'48
- How they so softly restHealey Willan (1880-1968)3'44
- The day is doneStephen Paulus (1949-2014)5'20
- Pilgrims' Hymn Even before we call on your name (Excerpt from The Three Hermits)Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)3'03
- Hymn to the Eternal Flame Ev'ry face is in you, ev'ry voice, ev'ry sorrow in you (Excerpt from To be Certain of the Dawn)Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)2'08
- Two Motets: Mosella Quis color ille vadis, seras cum propulit umbrasWilliam Hawley (b1950)2'16
- Two Motets: Te vigilans oculisWilliam Hawley (b1950)2'24
- Phoenix Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundiOla Gjeilo (b1978)5'04
Recording details from Hyperion Records.