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The Valley Sings: Choral Music by Composers of the Hudson Valley. MSR CLASSICS - compact disc
The Valley Sings: Choral Music by Composers of the Hudson Valley. MSR CLASSICS - compact disc
 
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Kairos: A Consort of Singers is a professional chamber choir which includes EMS sales staff members Fern Ashworth in the soprano section and Don Boyer in the baritone section.

The Valley Sings follows Kairos' critically-acclaimed first CD, Christus Natus Est. This wonderful CD features choral music by composers who have lived and worked in the Hudson Valley, sung by the premiere vocal ensemble of the Hudson Valley, and recorded in the Hudson Valley. Many of the works are premiere recordings!
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  • The reviews are in!!
  • " 'The Valley Sings.' and sings well, thanks to the able conducting of Edward Lundergan and the superb musicianship of his Kairos Consort of Singers. Their tone is radiant, their pitch and rhythm impeccable, and their gusto undeniable. They bring sincerity to their work, and seem to live at the heart of the various texts, secular and sacred, conveying a wholesomeness and honesty that comes as a breath of fresh air in this time of jaded and glossy music making." -- Raymond Beegle, Fanfare Magazine (September/October 2013)
  • "...These folks sing, and sing very well. The music is replete with difficulties that include many leaps and jumps into higher regions that sopranos especially fear to tread, and they nail the notes every time....Bold tone, great dynamic range, and solid intonation fit their bill very well....The music is also very well chosen. I can't remember the last time a program was so enjoyable. Not radical, not shocking, but elegant and melodic, emotional and colorful...MSR's sound, recorded at Holy Cross Monastery, is close with good reverberation around the chorus. This is a fine disc well worth your attention." --Steven Ritter, Audiophile Audition (June 2013)
  • "...'The Valley Sings' captures a bounty of fragrant and stirring music to captivating effect... the music is largely tonally based and words are set with exceptional skill...The 18-member Kairos sing each work with a keen sense of balance and interplay under artistic director Edward Lundergan..." --Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone (June 2013) (Click here to read full review)
  • "Under its current artistic director, Dr. Edward Lundergan, the present is definitely the sphere of activity in their recent CD 'The Valley Sings'. In particular, they have been very active promoting the music of composers associated with the Hudson Valley, Hence the Title of their recent release on MSR: The Valley Sings. And damned well, I might add. The 18 singers who comprise Kairos have a range of big, emotive sounds and dynamic shadings. Not only are they keen in their intonations and spotlessly clean in their diction and phrasings, but they are expert in handling the many polyphonic passages found throughout these works and used for highly expressive purposes." -- Phil Muse, Audio Society of Atlanta (May 2013)
  • "Most of the music is lyrical, mildly dissonant pastoral fare that's easy on both the ear and the soul ... This energetic, emotionally engaged choir sings like they own the music - which they sort of do, having commissioned many of the works ... The engineering creates a close, vivid choral sound that makes for some excitement." -- Phillip Greenfield, American Record Guide (May/June 2013)
  • As you listen to this recording, you can hear the dominance of light, or monumentality. There is much drama, a certain wildness reflecting the antive scenery of the region. Light and air bathe terrestrial forms. Many of the pieces are religious, but they feel more reverential than they do worshipful, a feeling that inevitably creeps over you as you look at the majestic Hudson wending its way north to its origins in the Adirondack Mountains near the Lake of Tear Clouds, a musical name if you've ever heard one. This album is a good way to keep up with contemporary music. It is both provocative and easy on the ear. It is a wonderful introduction to the glories of the Hudson Valley, among which Edward Lundergan's Kairos Consort of Singers must be counted. Kairos is a Greek word meaning the right, opportune or supreme moment. This recording is full of such moments. The high-resolution CD has not been compressed and reproduces the music's dynamic range as intended by the performers. -- Susan Hall, ConcertoNet (January 2013)