Randall Thompson is one of the most important American composers of choral music. Writing in an unabashed Romantic style, this music is ideal for a choir like Choral Arts, which prides themselves in purity and breadth of choral sound.

This recording contains Thompson’s “Alleluia,” probably the most popular American choral work ever written, as well as six works never before recorded.

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1. The Best of Rooms (Robert Herrick)
2-3. Two Herbert Settings (George Herbert)
Antiphon *
Bitter-sweet
4. The Last Invocation (Walt Whitman)
5-8. Odes of Horace
Montium custos (book 3, 22)
Vitas hinnuleo (book 1, 23)
O fons Bandusiae (book 3, 13)
Felices ter (final verse of book 1, 13)
9. Alleluia
10-14. Five Love Songs
The Light of Stars (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) *
The Passenger (Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe) *
Two Worlds (Edmund Waller) *
Siciliano (Philip H. Rhinelander) *
The Happy Shore (Edmund Spenser) *

*World Premier Recordings