Pre-Owned Dominick Argento: Evensong – Of Love and Angels (CD 0000334926922) by Elizabeth Futral (soprano) Nelson James LePard Reed (treble) Samuel T. Lloyd III Washington National Cathedral;…

0000334926922. Pre-Owned: Good condition. CD. Dominick Argento wrote Evensong: Of Love and Angels a commission from the Cathedral Choral Society of Washington National Cathedral in 2006 as a memorial to his wife Carolyn who had died earlier that year. It s a deeply personal and deeply felt work characteristic of the composer in its lyrical impulse but even more gentle understated and resolutely tonal than is typical for him. Scored for soprano and treble soloists speaker chorus and orchestra it takes as its framework the Anglican service of Evening Prayer with additional texts by the composer including a sung sermon. Its length scope and required performing forces make it a work that is not likely to be performed frequently (even though some of its movements could be extracted) so it s good to have it recorded. Among its most appealing sections are the orchestral Meditation the Prayer for treble and Phos Hilaron for treble and chorus. The Sermon for soprano at 12 minutes tends to ramble musically and is blandly lyrical without…