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Home is a 2023 studio album of choral music by American composer Eric Whitacre and British vocal group Voces8. It has received positive reviews from critics.




Reception


Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4.5 out of 5 stars, with critic James Manheim writing the collaboration between Whitacre and Voces8 "would be noteworthy on its face" and specifically highlights The Sacred Veil as "a major piece of choral music that will be around for decades" and Whitacre's composition "forges a distinctively dark language that is related to but distinct from his usual style". Editors at AllMusic included this among their favorite classical vocal albums of 2023. Writing for BBC Music, Kate Wakeling gave this recording five out of five stars, summing up that "when Whitacre deploys a touch more harmonic bite, his work is richly rewarding and could not hope for better advocates than VOCES8". In Gramophone, Clare Stevens, called this an "intense, beautifully crafted and very personal piece [that] speaks eloquently to young adults of today" and gave it five out of five stars. The Times' Geoff Brown rated Home three out of five stars, critiquing that "the first four tracks of Home do little to disturb the listener", but praising the talent of Voces8 and the power of The Sacred Veil.




Track listing


All compositions by Eric Whitacre.

"Go, Lovely Rose" (text by Edmund Waller) – 4:32
"The Seal Lullaby" (text by Rudyard Kipling) – 4:34
"Sing Gently" (text by Eric Whitacre) – 3:44
"All Seems Beautiful to Me" (text by Walt Whitman) – 4:52
The Sacred Veil (text by Charles Anthony Silvestri, Julia Lawrence Silvestri, and Whitacre) – 55:09

"I. The Veil Opens" – 6:17
"II. In a Dark and Distant Year" – 2:06
"III. Home" – 3:55
"IV. Magnetic Poetry" – 7:09
"V. Whenever There Is Birth" – 3:30
"VI. I'm Afraid" – 5:22
"VII. I Am Here" – 2:10
"VIII. Delicious Times" – 5:07
"IX. One Last Breath" – 1:55
"X. Dear Friends" – 3:19
"XI. You Rise, I Fall" – 9:29
"XII. Child of Wonder" – 4:41




Personnel


Eric Whitacre – orchestra conducting, liner notes
Voces8

Andrea Haines – soprano vocals
Katie Jeffries-Harris – alto vocals
Christopher Moore – baritone vocals on "All Seems Beautiful to Me"
Blake Morgan – tenor vocals
Molly Noon – soprano vocals
Jonathan Pacey – bass vocals
Sam Poppleton – baritone vocals on "Go, Lovely Rose", "The Seal Lullaby", "Sing Gently", and The Sacred Veil
Barnaby Smith – alto vocals,engineering, editing, mixing, production, art direction, liner notes
Euan Williamson – tenor vocals
Additional personnel

Craig Beyler – associate production
DeDe Brown – associate production
Tony Brown – associate production
Paul Chessell – design
Emma Denton – cello on The Sacred Veil
Frederic Dittmann – associate production
Christopher Glynn – piano on "The Seal Lullaby", "Sing Gently", and The Sacred Veil
Judy Hartman – associate production
Helen Lewis – associate production, executive production
James Meehan – associate production
Bruce Ryder – associate production
Linda Ryder – associate production
WLP London Ltd – editing
Jesmer Wong – associate production




See also


2023 in American music
2023 in British music
2023 in classical music
List of 2023 albums




References






External links


Official website

Home at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
Review from All Classical

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Home (Voces8 and Eric Whitacre album)
• Eric Whitacre
• Voces8
• The Sacred Veil
• Virtual choir
• Christopher Glynn
• List of Specialist Classical Albums Chart number ones of the 2020s