Video interview with Morten Lauridsen
Two new all-Morten Lauridsen discs have been released by two of the US’s leading chamber choirs, from Minnesota (The Singers) and Connecticut (Voce), coupling his masterly choral cycles (Nocturnes, Mid-Winter Songs, Les Chansons des Roses, Madrigali), with some lesser-known gems, many of them premiere recordings.
Music by Morten Lauridsen occupies a permanent place in the standard vocal repertoire of the Twentieth-Century. His seven major vocal cycles–Les Chansons des Roses (Rilke), Mid-Winter Songs (Graves), Cuatro Canciones (Lorca), A Winter Come (Moss), Madrigali: Six “Firesongs” on Renaissance Italian Poems, Nocturnes (Rilke, Neruda and Agee) and Lux Aeterna–and his series of sacred a cappella motets (O Magnum Mysterium, Ave Maria, O Nata Lux and Ubi Caritas et Amor) are featured regularly in concert by distinguished ensembles throughout the world. O Magnum Mysterium, O Nata Lux (from Lux Aeterna) and Dirait-on (from Les Chansons des Roses) have become the all-time best selling choral octavos distributed by Theodore Presser, in business since 1783.
Click below to see a video interview with Morten Lauridsen:
http://martinperlichinterviews.com/archives/interviews/morten-lauridsen-3/