Voces8 - Enchanted Isle [CD]

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Celebrated vocal group VOCES8 take listeners on a glorious journey through the musical landscape of Britain with their brand new album \u2018Enchanted Isle\u2019, released on Decca Classics. The recording features a broad range of music from John Tavener and Thomas Ad\xe8s to Radiohead and Enya, interspersed with folk tunes, world premiere recordings and music from hit TV shows Game of Thrones and Harry\u2019s Game.\r
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Alongside timeless folk songs are modern hits, the new album includes Radiohead\u2019s \u2018Pyramid Song\u2019 (from the band\u2019s fifth studio album Amnesiac) which takes on a new dimension in this arrangement for voices, harp and strings. VOCES8 also cover \u2018The Rains of Castamere\u2019 from Game of Thrones \u2013 a piece which was first recorded for the HBO series by The National and Sigur R\xf3s. There is also \u2018I Was Born For This\u2019 from the Grammy-nominated video game score Journey, composed by Austin Wintory, and the haunting theme from British TV drama Harry\u2019s Game \u2013 originally written and performed by Irish band Clannad.\r
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VOCES8 bring their distinctive vocals to folk tunes from around the British Isles \u2013 from Celtic classics \u2018Danny Boy\u2019 and \u2018The Parting Glass\u2019 to \u2018Carrickfergus\u2019, featuring the astonishing young Irish singer Sib\xe9al (who sings in the traditional sean-n\xf3s style). The album also reaches as far afield as the abandoned Scottish island of St Kilda, with the recently-discovered tune \u2018Soay\u2019 \u2013 in a new arrangement by British composer Rebecca Dale, which includes a poignant cello solo. Other Scottish tunes to appear on the album are \u2018My Luve is Like a Red Red Rose\u2019 arranged by Latvian choral composer Eriks E\u0161envalds, and \u2018Caledonia\u2019 by Dougie MacLean, arranged by VOCES8\u2019s own tenor Blake Morgan.\r
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There are two world premiere recordings on the new album: VOCES8 commissioned young English composer Toby Hession to write a new a cappella choral work \u2018She Walks in Beauty\u2019; and there\u2019s the debut recording of a new arrangement of \u2018The Sun Never Says\u2019 by American composer Dan Forrest \u2013 a stirring work for choir and solo cello. Fellow American choral writer Jake Runestad also features on the album with \u2018Let My Love Be Heard\u2019 \u2013 a setting of a text by English 19th century poet Alfred Noyes.\r
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Completing the album are powerful choral pieces including \u2018Agnus Dei\u2019, Samuel Barber\u2019s own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings, John Tavener\u2019s \u2018Song for Athene\u2019, featuring excerpts from Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet alongside the traditional Orthodox liturgy, and \u2018O Albion\u2019 by Thomas Ad\xe8s \u2013 the first ever arrangement of this movement from his string quartet, Arcadiana, set to text from William Blake\u2019s 18th century poem \u2018Visions of the Daughters of Albion\u2019.\r
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Together, this evocative collection of songs casts a contemporary eye on the landscape of rolling hills and green valleys, rugged mountainsides and hidden villages of the \u2018Enchanted Isles\u2019, each performed by VOCES8 in their unique, exquisite style.\r

Soay

Theme from 'Harry's Game'

Carrickfergus (Feat. Sib\xe9al)

May It Be

Agnus Dei

The Rains of Castamere

Pyramid Song

O Albion

Song for Athene

The Parting Glass

My Luve Is Like a Red Red Rose

Let My Love Be Heard

Danny Boy

I Was Born for This

She Walks in Beauty

The Sun Never Says

Caledonia