Polyphony, Stephen Layton - Whitacre: Cloudburst

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: LPA67543
Barcode: 034571995762
Release Date: 12 Sep 2025
Genre: Classical

A highlight of the Hyperion choral catalogue. This album—a compelling combination of composer, conductor and choir—proved a runaway critical and commercial success on its 2006 release.
 
Tracklist:
Whitacre: Cloudburst, ‘La lluvia … Ojos de agua de sombra’ 
Whitacre: Lux aurumque, ‘Lux, calida gravisque, pura velut aurum’ 
Whitacre: A boy and a girl, ‘Stretched out on the grass’ 
Whitacre: This Marriage, ‘May these vows and this marriage be blessed’ 
Whitacre: Three Flower Songs - 1: I hide myself 
Whitacre: Three Flower Songs - 2: With a lily in your hand 
Whitacre: Three Flower Songs - 3: Go, lovely Rose 
Whitacre: When David heard 
Whitacre: Sleep, ‘The evening hangs beneath the moon’ 
Whitacre: Her sacred spirit soars 
Whitacre: Water Night, ‘Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles in the night’