Morten Lauridsen
Music by Morten Lauridsen occupies a permanent place in the standard vocal repertoire of the Twentieth-Century. His seven major vocal cycles--Les Chansons des Roses (Rilke), Mid-Winter Songs (Graves), Cuatro Canciones (Lorca), A Winter Come (Moss), Madrigali: Six “Firesongs” on Renaissance Italian Poems, Nocturnes (Rilke, Neruda and Agee) and Lux Aeterna--and his series of sacred a cappella motets (O Magnum Mysterium, Ave Maria, O Nata Lux and Ubi Caritas et Amor) are featured regularly in concert by distinguished ensembles throughout the world. O Magnum Mysterium, O Nata Lux (from Lux Aeterna) and Dirait-on (from Les Chansons des Roses) have become the all-time best selling choral octavos distributed by Theodore Presser, in business since 1783.
Discography
Title | Performer(s) | Year | Label | ||
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Chansons des roses, Les | Polyphony/Stephen Layton | 2007 | Hyperion | ||
Chansons des roses, Les | Los Angeles Master Chorale/Paul Salamunovich | 1998 | RCM | ||
Lux aeterna | Los Angeles Master Chorale & Sinfonia Orchestra/Paul Salamunovich | 1998 | RCM | ||
Mid-Winter Songs | Britten Sinfonia/Polyphony/Stephen Layton | 2007 | Hyperion | ||
Mid-Winter Songs | Los Angeles Master Chorale & Sinfonia Orchestra/Paul Salamunovich | 1998 | RCM | ||
Nocturnes | Polyphony/Stephen Layton | 2007 | Hyperion | ||
O Magnum Mysterium | Polyphony/Stephen Layton | 2004 | Hyperion | ||
O Magnum Mysterium | Grant Llewellyn/Haydn & Handel Society Chorus | 2004 | Avie | ||
O Magnum Mysterium | Nordic Chamber Choir | 2002 | Bayer | ||
O Magnum Mysterium | Robert Shaw/Shaw Festival Singers | 2001 | Telarc | ||
O Magnum Mysterium | David Hill/Choir of St John's College, Cambridge | 2006 | Hyperion | ||
O Magnum Mysterium | Ex Cathedra/Jeffrey Skidmore | 2002 | Ecce | ||
O Magnum Mysterium | Los Angeles Master Chorale/Paul Salamunovich | 1998 | RCM |