Lux Aeterna - Ivo Antognini

Lux Aeterna by Ivo Antognini performed by the Phoenix Chamber Choir (Vancouver, Canada), Graeme Langager, conductor.
Lux Aeterna is featured on our CD: "Mid-Winter Songs, Lauridsen / Un Soir de Neige, Poulenc", available on our website or on iTunes.
The Phoenix Chamber Choir recently celebrated its 30th anniversary as one of Canada’s finest vocal ensembles, renowned for diverse and eclectic programming from the Renaissance to the contemporary, commissions from Canadian and international composers, and North American premieres of significant new works. Phoenix was winner and three-time finalist in the European Broadcasting Union’s Let The Peoples Sing competition; 12-time winner of the CBC Choral Competition; choir-in-residence at the Copenhagen Choral Festival and Millennial Choral Festival (Banff Centre for the Arts); and featured performer at the National Conductors’ Symposium and World Symposium on Choral Music. Phoenix Chamber Choir is heard regularly on radio across North America, Europe and Australia.
Please visit us online at www.phoenixchoir.ca, or on Facebook at / phoenixchamberchoir .
This recording was made in May, 2014 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Audio engineering by Will Howie.
Video production by Thomas Sanz (www.thomassanz.com).

[@emiolian]

This is an enchanting recording of my LUX AETERNA. Thank you, Graeme and all the singers :-))))

[@phoenixchamberchoir]

It is our deep honour and pleasure to have sung such a beautiful piece. Thank you, Ivo!!

[@zachwatt4344]

This is the arrangement, this is the performance. There isn't a better one out there. All of the vivid colors achieved, ebbing and flowing, one into the next is a beauty words can't capitulate. This arrangement and this performance (conductor and choir) of it is quite an achievement. I always find myself coming back to it. I first heard it on public radio while driving home from work a few years ago. I had a moment. I'd never heard a choir make pure emotions with their voices like this. I had always dreamed a vocal performance could be like this and never heard anything come close. There's always too much "music" in a choir performance. Obvious meter, harmonic changes, drastic dynamics. Too much artificial structure. Not enough use of polychords, elisions, overlapping motifs, ethereal stuff. You all in your combined efforts managed to pull every wish out of my imagination and put it all in one performance. Thank you all.

[@ちえこきむら-e6d]

心が締め付けられそうに悲しく辛く苦しい時にこの曲、歌声を聴くと心の穏やかさを取り戻せる。歌いたい気持ちになる

[@zeinrabadi9133]

my heart is bleeding i wish i can chant with you.
Amazing.

[@TheMusnut]

Exquisite performance! Thank you so very much for sharing your performance :) xxx

[@beeebop]

High praise. Well deserved. Hauntingly beautiful. Well done both artists and composer. 😇😇😇

[@yuehchopin]

fantastisch

[@Domagoj_playz]

beautiful ❤