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Christmas at America's First Cathedral (2010)
A celebration of the holiday season with Tom Hall conducting the Chorus and Orchestra in festive favorites and the premiere of several new works. Recorded at the beautiful Baltimore Basilica, this CD package also includes a bonus DVD featuring performances from the holiday concert.
Dave Brubeck
The Gates of Justice. A recording of Dave Brubeck's cantata featuring Choral Arts, Kevin Deas and Cantor Alberto Mizrahi. " …Like Martin Luther King, Jr., Dave Brubeck is convinced that "we must learn to live together as brothers, or die together as fools." The Gates of Justice is a cantata based on Jewish texts, but its message is universal." - Rabbi Charles D. Mintz
Dreamer
Our first commercial recording release in over a decade, this breathtaking album was recorded live in concert in May 2022. Released by Acis Productions, “Dreamer" pairs Maestro Clark’s completion of the Mozart Requiem (K. 626) with “Portraits: Douglass and Tubman”, a new work by composer Jasmine Barnes (b. 1991) with a collection of texts that inspire the present with the unending quest for social justice. The concert was staged in collaboration with the American Spiritual Ensemble, and founder and director Dr. Everett McCorvey.
REVIEWS:
"The choir's singing […] doesn't lack for impact, however, as demonstrated by its powerful delivery in “Do Right”; it doesn't hurt either that the music's driven by ostinato rhythms, surging strings, and syncopated snare and tympani drumming. The drama of “Moral Growth” is intensified when Barnes accompanies the choir and orchestra with a rattle reminiscent of the kind used to warn escaped enslaved people that danger was near." Textura
"The choir sing accurately and very enthusiastically. They go hell-for-leather at the Dies Irae and Confutatis, which is taken at a daringly fast speed, but they’re incisive in the big fugues and there’s a pleasing sense of weight to their singing." Music Web International
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Rachmaninoff's All Night Vigil (1993)
A recording of our acclaimed live performance in 1993. "The performance was outstanding. Hall understands this work and drew beautiful work from his choristers, [who] sang convincingly and created the appropriate atmosphere." - Stephen Wigler, The Baltimore Sun