Content: Ramon Humet Light (Llum)
Artists: Latvian Radio Choir Sigvards Klava, conductor Genres: Contemporary Choral Features: Sleeve notes in English, sung texts with English translation. World première recording |
Format: CD Released: June 2021 Catalogue No.: ODE 1389-2 EAN/UPC Code: 0761195138922 |
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With this new release the award-winning Latvian Radio Choir together with its director Sigvards Kļava are returning to contemporary music after a series of recordings of 19th Century sacred choral works. Ramon Humet’s (b. 1968) new choral work, Llum, is a deep, spiritual journey to the gift of life, peace and love.
Humet’s Llum was due to be premiered by the Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Kļava in Barcelona in March 2020 when the global pandemic broke out. This 7-movement work is based on spiritual texts and poems by Vicenç Santamaria, a monk from the monastery of Monserrat in Catalunya and close friend of the composer. This timeless work is radiating serene joy and ends with an ‘Alleluia’. In this first recording, the Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Klava are offering an impressive account of this new 21st Century choral work.
The Latvian Radio Choir (LRC) ranks among the top professional chamber choirs in Europe and its refined taste for musical material, fineness of expression and vocal of unbelievably immense compass have charted it as a noted brand on the world map. The repertoire of LRC ranges from the Renaissance music to the most sophisticated scores by modern composers; and it could be described as a sound laboratory – the singers explore their skills by turning to the mysteries of traditional singing, as well as to the art of quartertone and overtone singing and other sound production techniques. The choir has established a new understanding of the possibilities of a human voice; one could also say that the choir is the creator of a new choral paradigm: every singer is a distinct individual with his or her own vocal signature and roles in performances.
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