Cape Fear Chorale Fall 2025
If you'd like to get a sense of the music we're singing, here are a few of Aaron’s favorite recordings:
Fern Hill
John Corigliano's Fern Hill is one of the great medium-length choral works of the later 20th century, set to the lyrical poetry of Dylan Thomas. We encourage you to read the poem on its own. Look up any unfamiliar words. There's plenty of analysis of the poem available online, but see if you can come up with an understanding of the text on your own first!
Kansas City Chorale, conducted by Charles Bruffy
Atlanta Master Chorale, conducted by Eric Nelson
Lord Nelson Mass
The Lord Nelson Mass is one of the great masterpieces of choral-orchestral music. It is absolutely symphonic in scope — in a sense, it is our window into what it is like to be an instrumentalist playing a Classical-era symphony. It will therefore be incumbent upon us to approach this music instrumentally — to play the music. We know that many of you have sung it before — either in rehearsal with Chorale during the Spring 2020 semester, or in other performances. This is an ambitious program, in which one of my major goals is for us to achieve a balance a style and expressivity.
If you'd like to get a sense of the music we're singing, here are a few of Aaron’s favorite recordings:
Monteverdi Choir, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
(in playlist form — 11 tracks, A=lower than 440)Yale Schola Cantorum, conducted by David Hill
(one long video, A=lower than 440)Oslo Solistkor, conducted by Grete Pederson
(one long video, A=440)