Libera: Angels sings in America

Description

Guided by their music director Robert Prizeman, the 40 boys of Libera let their voices take flight in atmospheric arrangements of religious and secular music. The album opens with Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee, based on Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, and among the inspiring choral gems that follow are some of Libera’s greatest hits – including Sanctus (from Johann Pachelbel’s famous Canon) and Song of Life by the Japanese composer Takatsugu Muramatsu. The programme includes such universal sacred favouritesas Amazing Grace and Schubert’s soaring Ave Maria. Wayfaring Stranger, the American folksong popularised around the world by the likes of Johnny Cash and Eva Cassidy, also features, as does the uplifting What A Wonderful World, a huge hit for the great Louis Armstrong in 1967.