Pacific Chorale's John Alexander Singers release "American Voices"

September 8, 2014

On Tuesday, September 9, Delos Music releases a new recording titled American Voices by the John Alexander Singers, the fully professional 24-voice chamber choir of Pacific Chorale. The recording features the music of American composers, including Dale Warland, Morten Lauridsen, Joseph Gregorio, Michael Rickelton, John Muehleisen, Norman Dello Joio, Eric Whitacre, and John Orfe, with guest instrumental performers Barry Perkins on trumpet and David Clemensen on piano. Pacific Chorale Artistic Director John Alexander conducts.

The selections include three winners of Pacific Chorale's Young Composers Competition in their premiere recordings. This is the third recording to exclusively feature the John Alexander Singers; the group shared a release with the full Pacific Chorale on last year's "Frank Ticheli: The Shore and Other Choral Works," also on Delos. The recording is available on CD and digital download from Delos's website, as well as through distributor Naxos and retailers iTunes and Amazon.com.

Track Listing:

1. Warland, Always Singing

2. Lauridsen, Chanson Éloignée

3. Lauridsen, O Love, Be Fed With Apples While You May

4-6. Gregorio, Love, thricewise (Liquor and lacquer / An amethyst remembrance / Kinsfolk) *

7. Rickelton, Pentecost *

8. Muehleisen, Snow (The King's Trumpeter)

9. Muehleisen, When All Is Done

10. Dello Joio, The Bluebird

11-12. Muehleisen, Two River Nocturnes (Prairie Waters by Night / River Moons)

13. Whitacre, Little Birds

14. Whitacre, Water Night