Frank Ticheli: The Shore and other choral works gets a strong recommendation from MusicWeb International‘s Dan Morgan:
“Ticheli’s writing, spare but never desiccated, is flecked with lovely instrumental colours. The playing is clean and characterful. … Most striking is the originality of Ticheli’s score, which avoids the usual watery clichés. Even those rippling harp figures don’t seem at all hackneyed. Climaxes – sparingly used – have tremendous body and bite, and like everything else in this well-crafted work they are appropriately scaled. The chorus’s gently rocking phrases at the close are a joy to hear. … Ticheli’s arrangement of the gift song Here Take This Lovely Flower…finds the John Alexander Singers in radiant concert; soprano Lorraine Joy Welling’s delivery has an artless purity that’s utterly right in this context. A sliver of sustained loveliness, well sung and recorded. … This is a very rewarding album that lovers of contemporary choral writing should hear. … it’s a measure of Ticheli’s considerable craft – and Alexander’s conducting skills – that…hold the ear from start to finish. As live recordings The Shore and There Will Be Rest have an added spontaneity, a subtle frisson, that makes them rather special; remarkably, Here Take This Lovely Flower is blessed with the very same qualities.…” —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International
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