The word sublime should never be used lightly, but if ever a collection
of music warrants the term it's this one. In keeping with its title,
this latest recording by Daniel Taylor and the Trinity Choir, their
follow-up to Four Thousand Winter and the Juno-nominated The Tree of Life,
offers a direct route to paradise, its figurative access achieved when
the immediate space is filled with its glorious vocal performances. The
set-list is dominated by choral works from the sixteenth century, the
two by Arvo Pärt obvious exceptions. His pieces, as anyone familiar with
the Estonian composer's output will have already guessed, sit
comfortably alongside those by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Nicolas Gombert, and others. Though their works are set to sacred texts about
the soul's lifelong struggle to achieve salvation, The Path To Paradise presents spiritually replenishing music whose rapturous beauty is capable of speaking to the faithful and non-faithful alike. (Textura.org)The word sublime should never be used lightly, but if ever a collection
of music warrants the term it's this one. In keeping with its title,
this latest recording by Daniel Taylor and the Trinity Choir, their
follow-up to Four Thousand Winter and the Juno-nominated The Tree of Life,
offers a direct route to paradise, its figurative access achieved when
the immediate space is filled with its glorious vocal performances. The
set-list is dominated by choral works from the sixteenth century, the
two by Arvo Pärt obvious exceptions. His pieces, as anyone familiar with
the Estonian composer's output will have already guessed, sit
comfortably alongside those by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Nicolas Gombert, and others. Though their works are set to sacred texts about
the soul's lifelong struggle to achieve salvation, The Path To Paradise presents spiritually replenishing music whose rapturous beauty is capable of speaking to the faithful and non-faithful alike. (Textura.org)
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