Gramophone Magazine’s January 2021 issue features a wonderful review for the Los Angeles, Texas, and Austin Guitar Quartets, and Conspirare’s recording, The Singing Guitar: “Conspirare’s new recording featuring the Austin-based choral group and three guitar quartets bookends impressive large-scale works by Nico Muhly and Kile Smith with small jewels by Reena Esmail and founding conductor…
The Chicago Tribune has published their 10 best classical recordings of 2020 and Conspirare’s “The Singing Guitar” has made the list! “[Craig Hella] Johnson and Conspirare continue to create indelible work, as in “The Singing Guitar,” which pairs Conspirare’s sublime voices with guitar accompaniment. The melismatic chant of Reena Esmail’s “When the Guitar,” the poignant…
Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson’s The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad has been nominated for the 2020 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance! “Eriks Esenvalds, Ola Gjeilo, and Eric Whitacre might have to slide down the bench a little to make room for a newcomer. … Runestad’s music tends to be luminous,…
American Record Guide reviews Conspirare’s The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad in their November/December 2019 Issue: “Eriks Esenvalds, Ola Gjeilo, and Eric Whitacre might have to slide down the bench a little to make room for a newcomer. … Runestad’s music tends to be luminous, spiritually-charged, enmeshed with the texts that inspired…
Gramophone Magazine’s Awards Issue has a review for Conspirare’s recording of The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad: “Thoreau’s words go far in encapsulating many of the works on this first full disc of the American composer’s music, especially as performed by the sterling Austin-based choral ensemble Conspirare. Runestad has wedded exquisite music…
Jean-Yves Duperron reviews Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson’s new recording, The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad on Classical Music Sentinel: “[Conspirare] swaddles you within a soothing sonic cocoon. … a seamless and effortless delivery, smooth entries, perfect blend and highly gradual dynamics. … Craig Hella Johnson has certainly picked the music of a…
Classical Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media’s “Major Themes” program has named Conspirare‘s The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad one of their “top picks for must-hear recordings.” “This is the most highly anticipated choral album this year. Why? Conspirare, led by Craig Hella Johnson, is arguably America’s finest mixed-voice choir. And…
The Hope of Loving is the first Delos album devoted to the music of composer Jake Runestad and presents many of his finest choral compositions. Listeners will marvel at the rich, luminous textures, lyricism and harmonic wizardry of his compositions, as he explores (among others) themes of love, spirituality and the natural world in mesmerizing…
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