Cloudburst by Eric Whitacre sung by Voce

Voce, a 24 voice professional choir based out of Hartford CT, sings Cloudburst by Eric Whitacre. Artistic Director, Mark Singleton conducting.
http://www.voceinc.org

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Music

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• classical
• voce
• singleton
• connecticut
• choir
• choral
• whitacre
• cloudburst
• hartford
• acaplla

[achinghunger15]

I would love to hear more from this choir. this was an amazing performance of this song

[moziggy]

Go check out the website. We have some clips out there from the one CD we have done so far, live performances of our first concert. Next May we are cutting an all-Lauridsen CD with Dr. Lauridsen himself. We had him in residency back in April for a concert, and he was impressed with us enough to want us to record.

[moziggy]

Thanks! We get to perform it again along another two Whitacres in our February concert. In April we are doing a concert with Morten Lauridsen himself playing the piano.

[pettyjohnd]

Voce just released an all-Lauridsen album which Lauridsen describes as a "superb recording of my choral music and art songs . . . all brilliantly performed by Voce and the Voce Chamber Artists." It is available on cdbaby

[p0pkorn88]

Yeah totally.. on the climax part it really shows it lol. But i dont mean necessarily on the extreme super high soprano parts. I was referring to everything in general. The serene beginning for example.. has excellent balance. no overpowering sopranos or anything.

[olegurl2010]

If any of you are actually sopranos, you would know it is quite difficult to sing in the passagio (which this piece sits in quite a bit) quietly. We do our best but it is kind of high. You would have issues too... just sayin' :)

[p0pkorn88]

it shouldn't be accepted. Soprano's don't always get the 1st of the chord, it's pretty obvious here throughout those awesome whitacre chords. Look at that arpeggiating pattern 3:48. basses build up with the first root note. They need to be heard the most. The next most important is the fifth, then the third, and 9th and 7th. Your vocal part shouldn't determine the volume and balance in the music, your note in the chord and its importance should.

[speedfox51]

Fantasic performance!

[germantrabant]

nice one.

i am looking forward to hear this nice piece of music within the next weeks.

rgds

[leederagain]

Sopranos always overpower. I sang this as an AltoII and I got over that fact. Truth is, they're melody, they're going to be heard more than everyone else. It's good practice for Basses, anyways. It teaches them to use all of their diaphragm and sing out.

I will agree with you however on the straight tempo. There are times when he needed to just slow down and take it without the help of rhythm. Just, let it flow naturally.

This was beautifully done, other than tempo. Whitacre is truly ingenious.

[jerryjj1955]

I am singing this in my college's chamber choir. Of course, their sound is great. Sopranos overpower at times because of the recording quality, which sucks.

My only criticism would be the straight tempo. I'm not too into that. There are so many points in this peice where taking time is natural. It made it seem more mechanical and less passionate. The lyrics are based on a poem about the earth needing this "cloudburst." And obviously the lyrics are more symbolic than that. Look 'em up.

[tenortwo20]

The Cloudburst section of this performance is way intense. Very cool. Even more intense than the Polyphony performance.