American Choral Classics album on the way from Divine Art Records

British conductor Robin White has brought his hand-picked choral ensemble Alban Voices to the studio to record an album of American Choral Classics including major serious works and iconic folksy ditties!  This will be White’s third outing with Divine Art following his album ‘From Russia’ (Divine Art DDA 25223) with clarinettist Ian Scott and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, and the Christmas digital single ‘Light of the World’,  which featured both the Sinfonia and Alban Voices.

The new recording, which also spotlights mezzo-soprano Barbara Naylor in Copland’s ‘In the Beginning’, was made in September 2022 and is to be released worldwide in June.

American Choral Classics

Label: Divine Art

Catalogue number: DDX 21106

Performers

• Alban Voices
• Barbara Naylor (mezzo-soprano) *
• Robin White (conductor)
• Peter Jaekel (piano)

Works

• Alleluia (Randall Thompson)
• Agnus Dei (Samuel Barber)
• Lux Aurumque (Eric Whitacre)
• Simple Gifts (Aaron Copland) **
• In the Beginning (Aaron Copland) *
• Sure on this Shining Night (Samuel Barber)**
• Psalm 67 (Charles Ives)
• Summertime (George Gershwin)
• Shenandoah (traditional)
• I Bought me a Cat (Aaron Copland) **