When Gjeilo first visited the choir in Arizona, he had never been to the desert before, and the ‘quiet beauty and barrenness of the landscape’ moved him deeply. Phoenix, a setting of the Agnus Dei, is dedicated to Charles Bruffy and the Phoenix Chorale in honour of its fiftieth anniversary. Soon after, Gjeilo was invited to be the Chorale’s first Composer-in-Residence. Bruffy brought Gjeilo’s music to the Chorale and its audiences, and the response was immediate. When he first heard Gjeilo’s Ubi caritas, Charles Bruffy was instantly hooked, finding the music ‘refreshing and magnetic’. On this album the Choir performs choral works, and settings of sacred texts by the Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo.
The critically acclaimed, Arizona-based Phoenix Chorale (formerly Phoenix Bach Choir) originally focused on music of the Renaissance and baroque periods, but today is equally dedicated to the creation and performance of new music.
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