Shall We Gather VOCES8 & Ringmasters

• Robert Lowry (1826 - 1899):
• 1 Lowry: Shall We Gather at the River (Arr. Morgan for Vocal Ensemble) 04:36
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943):
• 2 Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31: V. Little Entrance. Come, Let Us Worship 02:02
• Eric Whitacre (b. 1970):
• 3 Whitacre: Lux Aurumque 04:38
• Giovanni Gabrieli (1557 - 1612):
• 4 Gabrieli: Deus, Deus meus a 10 03:42
• Franz Biebl (1906 - 2001):
• 5 Biebl: Ave Maria 07:20
• Jan Sandström (b. 1954), Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621):
• 6 Sandström, Praetorius: Det är en ros utsprungen (2026 Remaster) 03:43
• Blake Morgan (b. 1991):
• 7 Morgan: Moonrise 04:10
• Rasmus Krigström (b. 1986):
• 8 Krigström: In Memoriam (Ring Out Wild Bells) 06:25
• Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (b. 1963):
• 9 Mäntyjärvi: Pseudo-Yoik 02:15
• Blake Morgan:
• 10 Morgan: Loch Lomond (A Folk Fantasia) 07:17
• Paul McCartney (b. 1942), John Lennon (1940 - 1980):
• 11 McCartney, Lennon: The Fool on the Hill (Arr. Puerling for Vocal Ensemble) 04:48
• Willie Hutch (1944 - 2005, Bob West (1942 - 2016), Hal Davis (1933 - 1998), Berry Gordy Jr. (b. 1929):
• 12 Hutch, West, Davis, Gordy Jr.: I'll Be There (Arr. Morgan for Vocal Ensemble) 04:19
• Stephen Schwartz (b. 1948), Alan Menken (b. 1949):
• 13 Schwartz, Menken: The Bells of Notre Dame & Out There (Arr. Dale & Krigström for Vocal Ensemble) 07:04
• Total Runtime 01:02:19

Info zu Shall We Gather

„Shall We Gather“ vereint zwei der weltweit einzigartigsten Vokalensembles – VOCES8 und die schwedischen Barbershop-Meister Ringmasters – in einer lebendigen und fesselnden Zusammenarbeit, die den gemeinsamen menschlichen Drang zum gemeinsamen Singen zelebriert. Das im VOCES8 Centre in London aufgenommene Album verbindet die Wärme und Präzision der Chortradition mit dem unverwechselbaren „Klang“ und der Energie der Barbershop-Harmonien und schafft so eine Klangwelt, die sowohl frisch als auch sofort mitreißend ist. Das Programm erstreckt sich über Jahrhunderte und Stilrichtungen und bewegt sich mühelos von der Polyphonie der Renaissance und romantischen Chorwerken hin zu Volksliedern, zeitgenössischen Kompositionen und ikonischem Pop-Repertoire. Neben Werken von Gabrieli, Rachmaninow, Praetorius und Whitacre finden sich fantasievolle Bearbeitungen von „Loch Lomond“, „The Fool on the Hill“ und „I’ll Be There“, die in einer mitreißenden Version von „The Bells of Notre Dame“ gipfeln. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine einfache, aber kraftvolle Idee: Musik als gemeinschaftliches Handeln – eine Einladung, zusammenzukommen, zuzuhören und eine Verbindung herzustellen. Mit außergewöhnlicher gesanglicher Kunstfertigkeit und einer spürbaren Freude am gemeinsamen Musizieren bietet „Shall We Gather“ eine einzigartige Begegnung verschiedener Stile und Traditionen, die sowohl Chorfans als auch Liebhaber zeitgenössischer A-cappella-Musik gleichermaßen anspricht.

VOCES8
Ringmasters

VOCES8
The 2023 GRAMMY-nominated British vocal ensemble VOCES8 tours globally performing an extensive repertory both in its a cappella concerts and in collaborations with leading musicians, orchestras, and conductors. Versatility and a celebration of diverse musical expression are central to the ensemble’s performance and education ethos which is shared both online and in person. VOCES8 is the flagship ensemble of the VOCES8 Foundation which actively promotes “Music Education for All,” reaching up to 40,000 people annually. VOCES8 has performed at many notable venues from Wigmore Hall to the Sydney Opera House. This season they perform over 100 concerts globally. Online the VOCES8 Digital Academy and the LIVE From London digital festival continue. They publish music and educational material with VOCES8 Publishing and Edition Peters, including The VOCES8 Method written by Paul Smith. Ken Burton is Composer-in-Residence with Jim Clements as Arranger-in-Residence. The group’s latest recordings are A Choral Christmas featuring Taylor Scott Davis’s “Magnificat,” Christopher Tin’s “The Lost Birds,” (a GRAMMY Award nominee), and Home conducted by Eric Whitacre, featuring “The Sacred Veil” and “Seven Psalms” by Paul Simon.

Ringmasters
As the 2012 world champions of barbershop, Ringmasters blend their awesome virtuosity with the infectious energy of pop music. Their vibrant shows take you from barbershop classics, to Swedish choral music, through Simon and Garfunkel to the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

The quartet grew out of the rich soil of Swedish choir tradition. Throughout grade school, all four members attended Adolf Fredrik’s Music School, Sweden’s most renowned choir school. They all then made the natural transition into Stockholm Music Gymnasium, and today all four are members of at least one top choir.

Having stumbled across barbershop harmony in a Simpsons episode, they realized it offered a chance to compete in ensemble singing. This spurred them to train vigorously, with the ambition to reach the very top. With the coaching of barbershop legend Doug Harrington, they won the International Collegiate Contest in Nashville in 2008, after barely two years together as a group. In 2009 they placed fourth in the world in Anaheim, and a year later they shook Philadelphia with the mind-blowing arrangements by David Harrington, and they climbed to third. Finally in Portland in 2012, Ringmasters was recognized as the best barbershop quartet in the world. And the first non-American group ever to win that contest.

In between winning medals, the four singers have honed their craft by featuring as the house quartet on two separate cruise ships, first in the Caribbean, and later in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. Forced to churn out shows night after night they learnt how to own a stage, no matter how late they had stayed in the bar the night before.

Winning the gold meant some big tours in America in the coming years, where memorable performances like the Bells of Notre Dame Medley, with over a million views on YouTube, has gotten the attention of the entire a capella world. In later years Ringmasters have been touring a lot in Germany thanks to the cooperation with their agency Magenta, but you can expect them to pop up in many places around the world, keep a lookout on the website or on their social media platforms!

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