Explorations - September 2008

Explorations features "undiscovered" music both old and new — rarely-heard gems by familiar composers, and brilliant pieces by lesser-known composers. Music from centuries past will include a masterpiece by Claude De Jeune — a piece in seven voice parts (no easy feat for a group of eight singers!) — and by Gesualdo di Venosa, whose own seven-part piece was completed by Igor Stravinsky when two of the original part-books were lost.

Music from the modern day includes pieces by audience favorite Paul Crabtree, by Clerestory singer Jesse Antin, and wonderful pieces by two composition students at the San Francisco conservatory, Minna Choi and Ilya Demutsky. We will also pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who explored his native folk idiom through his travels around the English countryside, with his rarely-heard set of Five Folk Songs.

Recordings

Click a song title below to play a recording. Click the pause button to stop playback. Recordings are in QuickTime format. Click the icon to download an MP3 directly to your computer. Alternately, right-click the track name to save the file to your hard drive.