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Hymn to the Virgin - Schola Cantorum, Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl
Hymn to the Virgin - Schola Cantorum, Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl
Hymn to the Virgin - Schola Cantorum, Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl
Hymn to the Virgin - Schola Cantorum, Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl
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Thomas Aquinas writes in the Summa Theologica: "Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound." The quotation most aptly describes the repertoire on the Norwegian chamber choir Schola Cantorum's recording of hymns to Mary, the Mother of God, in which tranquillity, eternity and ‘bursting forth into sound’ are encountered in many different guises. 

Best Engineered Album, Classical 56th GRAMMY Nominee

The composers represented here have often chosen to allow their music to evolve in stable structures and remain within static harmonic spaces even when the music becomes expressive and dramatic: Benjamin Britten, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Duruflé, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, Martin Ødegaard, Kjell Mørk Karlsen, Anton Bruckner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arvo Pärt, Ola Gjeilo, Andrew Smith and Trond Kverno.

Throughout its existence the chamber choir Schola Cantorum has had high ambitions. The choir has built up an international reputation and has made it a trademark to include newly written music in its programmes. This is thanks to the work of Knut Nystedt (1915–), organist, composer and conductor, who returned to Norway in 1964 after studying in the USA and started a choir at the music department of the University of Oslo. The choir continues to recruit members from the department of music, as well as from the Norwegian Academy of Music in more recent years.

Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl trained as a singer and pianist and specialized in the Kodaly method in Hungary before taking her diploma exam in choral conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music. She has directed Schola Cantorum since 2002.

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Album title
Hymn to the Virgin
Performer
Schola Cantorum, choir SATB
Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl, conductor
Catalogue #
2L-095-SABD
EAN13
7041888518228
ISRC-code
NOMPP1307010-140
Disc 1
Hybrid SACD
MCH 5.0 DSD
Stereo DSD
RedBook PCM
Disc 2

Pure Audio Blu-ray
DTS HD MA 192kHz/24 bit 5.0
LPCM 192kHz/24 bit STEREO
mShuttle: FLAC 96kHz + MP3
Region: ABC - worldwide

Release date
June 2013
Recording date
January, March and October 2011
Location
Gamle Aker Church, Norway
Original source
DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)