Recordare
Harry Bradford (conductor & co-founder)
Kirsty O'Neill (co-founder)
Danni O'Neill (co-founder)
Ever Changing Skies represents vocal ensemble Recordare’s highly-anticipated debut album release. Carefully crafted by conductor Harry Bradford and sopranos Kirsty and Danni O’Neill, the album forms a journey through the four seasons of the year; exploring the physical and emotional idiosyncrasies of each.
Works by celebrated composers from different traditions and historical time-periods are interspersed with five newly commissioned works to create an expressive and wide-ranging sonic exploration of the seasonal journey.
The album is designed as a complete musical adventure through the year whilst also allowing listeners to choose specific music according to their moods, tastes and the current season. Recordare’s commitment to precise, thought-provoking and dynamic choral singing is the perfect vehicle for this vibrant and eclectic selection of music.
Album Booklet (PDF)
About the Artists: Recordare
Spring
Ben Parry (b.1965)
Spring Sonnets
1. Sonnet 2: This morning, Spring
appeared
Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
Italian Madrigals, Op. 1
2. Ride la primavera
Lillie Harris (b.1994)
3. From tiny beginnings
Arne Mellnäs (1933–2002)
Sweet Spring
4. No.1, Spring
Summer
Herbert Howells (1892–1983)
5. The summer is coming
Pēteris Vasks (b.1946)
6. Māte Saule
Danni O’Neill (b.1996) &
Kirsty O’Neill (b.1996)
7. A Red, Red Rose
John Ireland (1879–1962)
8. The Hills
David McGregor (b.1995)
9. Sumer is icumen in
Autumn
Veljo Tormis (1930–2017)
Sügismaastikud (Autumn Landscapes)
10. On hilissuvi
11. Üle taeva jooksevad pilved
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Five Songs, Op. 104
12. V. Im Herbst
Ola Gjeilo (b.1978)
13. Autumn
Anna Semple (b.1997)
14. Old gold song of the almost
finished year
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
15. Summer is gone
Winter
Cecilia McDowall (b.1951)
16. Brightest Star
Johannes Eccard (1553–1611)
17. Der Winter kalt
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Trois Chansons de Charles d’Orléans
18. III. Yver, vous n’estes qu’un vilain
Ben Ponniah (b.1984)
19. A Winter Bluejay
Traditional arr. Harry Bradford (b.1996)
20. Auld Lang Syne
