Rising w/ The Crossing

The Crossing  •  Donald Nally

New Focus, 2020

Nominee GRAMMY Awards 2022 (Best Choral Performance)
The New York Times 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020
NPR A Diary Of Classical Albums For A Troubled 2020
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    Earth Teach Me Quiet

Earlier this year, when singing together became just about the most dangerous thing you could do, Donald Nally, the magus behind the Crossing, our finest contemporary-music choir, began posting daily recordings from their archives. He called it “Rising w/ the Crossing,” also the title of an album of a dozen highlights. There’s David Lang’s eerily prescient reflection on the 1918 flu pandemic, performed last year, and Alex Berko’s stirring Lincoln. But I keep returning to Eriks Esenvalds’s dreamily unfolding appeal to the Earth, its text a prayer of the Ute people of the American Southwest: a work of true radiance, fired by the precision and passion of this spectacular group. (Zachary Woolfe)

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