The Crossing – IT IS TIME released

THE CROSSING’s NEW CD – IT IS TIME – is released today!

Our new CD, IT IS TIME, is released today, March 29, on the Navona Records label, distributed by Naxos. The recording features six works commissioned by The Crossing: stunning unaccompanied choral settings of two of the twentieth century’s most creative and lyrical poets – Paul Celan and Philip Levine – by composers Kile Smith, Kirsten Broberg, Paul Fowler, and David Shapiro, whose beautiful motet on Celan’s “Corona” gives our CD its name: IT IS TIME. Two more settings of Celan poetry, by Erhard Karkoschka and Frank Havrøy, round out this valuable contribution to choral and new-music collections. 

 

For choral musicians, this is a window into some of the finest choral writing being composed today.  For all music lovers, it is a collection of new, intimate, meaningful, creative and expressive works that are valuable additions to the choral canon. 

 

Hear the sound of the ensemble the Philadelphia Inquirer calls “mind-blowing” and “staggering.”

It is time you owned your own copy! You can purchase it HERE.

 

IT IS TIME
The Crossing 
Donald Nally, conductor

 

David Shapiro:  It is Time (Celan)

Shapiro: The Years from You to Me (Celan)

Kile Smith: Where flames a word (Celan)

Paul Fowler: Breath (Levine)

Frank Havrøy: Psalm (Celan)
Erhard Karkoschka: Variationen mit Celan-Gedichten III (Celan)

Kirsten Broberg: Breathturn (Celan)

 

This recording and the commissions featured are supported by The Crossing’s supportive audience, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, through the Philadelphia Music Project. 

 

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