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Started at the beginning of the pandemic in an effort to stay connected with choral fans and share the healing beauty of choral music, Voices of Ascension continues to share choral moments with a new global audience. Many of these moments come from our own archive of professional and live recordings and some also come from guest choirs from distant lands as we celebrate the vast diversity of worldwide choral traditions.


The Voices of Connection blog of choral moments has embarked on an expansion. We have invited guest curators to join us in this special project so that we may all benefit from their unique tastes and perspectives with respect to choral music. Recent curators include Bob Lee, Malcolm J. Merriweather, Cecilia Rydinger, Bora Yoon, Jennifer Jolley, Gilda Lyons, Renée Favand-See, Sebastián Zubieta, James Bassi, Francisco J. Núñez and Melissa Bybee.

Voices of Connection: 06/17 Enric Granados: La Maja y el ruiseñor
Voices of Connection: 06/17 Enric Granados: La Maja y el ruiseñor

Among our family of wonderful soloists, the gorgeous soprano Vanessa Vasquez is one of our favorite and most frequent guests…

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Voices of AscensionJune 17, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/16 Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium
Voices of Connection: 06/16 Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium

One of the most famous of all Renaissance motets, O Magnum Mysterium displays Victoria’s unique style…

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Voices of AscensionJune 16, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/15 Handel: Zadok the Priest
Voices of Connection: 06/15 Handel: Zadok the Priest

This famous and remarkable ceremonial piece was composed in 1727 for the coronation of King George II…

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Voices of AscensionJune 15, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/14 A Duruflé Rarity
Voices of Connection: 06/14 A Duruflé Rarity

What a beautiful piece this is! But it is hardly ever done…

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Voices of AscensionJune 14, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/13 Joyous Weelkes
Voices of Connection: 06/13 Joyous Weelkes

Today’s piece is from exactly the same school of virtuosic English anthems as the Gibbons piece yesterday…

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Voices of AscensionJune 13, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/12 Joyous Gibbons
Voices of Connection: 06/12 Joyous Gibbons

At the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries many composers of choral music…

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Voices of AscensionJune 12, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/11 Pablo Casals: Eucaristica
Voices of Connection: 06/11 Pablo Casals: Eucaristica

Pablo Casals was one of the most revered cellists in history…

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Voices of AscensionJune 11, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/10 TCHAIKOVSKY: BLAZHENI, YAHZE IZBRAL
Voices of Connection: 06/10 TCHAIKOVSKY: BLAZHENI, YAHZE IZBRAL

From the rich repertory of Russian Orthodox music composed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries…

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Voices of AscensionJune 10, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/09 Hildegard von Bingen: Vos Flores Rosarum
Voices of Connection: 06/09 Hildegard von Bingen: Vos Flores Rosarum

We have a whole Delos recording of the music of this great Medieval mystic…

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Voices of AscensionJune 9, 2020Women Composers
Voices of Connection: 06/08 William Byrd: Justorum animae
Voices of Connection: 06/08 William Byrd: Justorum animae

Byrd’s Justorum animae is perhaps the most profound setting of that text I know…

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Voices of AscensionJune 8, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/07 Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Voices of Connection: 06/07 Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine

Oh, what a beautiful piece this is! How can something be so simple and discrete and yet evoke so many nuanced feelings?

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Voices of AscensionJune 7, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/06 Gabriel Fauré: Requiem - Agnus Dei
Voices of Connection: 06/06 Gabriel Fauré: Requiem - Agnus Dei

Today and tomorrow I thought we would have two selections by the great French composer Gabriel Fauré…

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Voices of AscensionJune 6, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/05 Kevin Deas
Voices of Connection: 06/05 Kevin Deas

Today we feature our dear friend, the incredible bass-baritone, Kevin Deas…

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Voices of AscensionJune 5, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/04 Harry T. Burleigh
Voices of Connection: 06/04 Harry T. Burleigh

Yesterday we played an arrangement by the most revered arranger of Spirituals in our lifetime, Moses Hogan. Today we feature perhaps the best-known master of them all, Harry T. Burleigh…

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Voices of AscensionJune 4, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/03 Guest Chorus Today
Voices of Connection: 06/03 Guest Chorus Today

We had planned another piece for today but simply couldn’t carry on in our usual manner in the midst of this heartbreaking time of national distress…

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Voices of AscensionJune 3, 2020
Voices of Connection: 06/01 A Schubert Rarity
Voices of Connection: 06/01 A Schubert Rarity

For our very first recording for Delos we were incredibly lucky to collaborate with the great American tenor Vinson Cole…

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Voices of AscensionJune 1, 2020
Voices of Connection: 05/31 A Trip to Amsterdam
Voices of Connection: 05/31 A Trip to Amsterdam

Jan Sweelinck was the most famous Dutch organist-composer in the early 1600s…

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Voices of AscensionMay 31, 2020
Voices of Connection: 05/30 Berlioz Spectacular!
Voices of Connection: 05/30 Berlioz Spectacular!

This is one of Berlioz’s greatest masterpieces, and it is one of the ultimate ceremonial pieces of all time…

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Voices of AscensionMay 30, 2020
Voices of Connection: 05/29 Nikolai Tolstiakov: Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Ghospoda
Voices of Connection: 05/29 Nikolai Tolstiakov: Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Ghospoda

This wonderful Russian Orthodox piece is one of our signature pieces…

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Voices of AscensionMay 29, 2020
Voices of Connection: 05/28 Palestrina: Super Flumina Babylonis
Voices of Connection: 05/28 Palestrina: Super Flumina Babylonis

Listening to this very poignant lament, it immediately resonated with me since we are all in exile right now…

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Voices of AscensionMay 28, 2020
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