Canada's Elora Singers developed in tandem with a music festival in the small Ontario town of the same name. The choir is made up of professional singers, and they were led for many years by the conductor on this 2018 release, Noel Edison. Thus they have developed a distinctively warm sound characterized by strong enunciation and involvement with the text. These qualities are on display in this collection of a cappella choral music, and the best news is that they're paired with a program of considerable originality. Neither ...
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Canada's Elora Singers developed in tandem with a music festival in the small Ontario town of the same name. The choir is made up of professional singers, and they were led for many years by the conductor on this 2018 release, Noel Edison. Thus they have developed a distinctively warm sound characterized by strong enunciation and involvement with the text. These qualities are on display in this collection of a cappella choral music, and the best news is that they're paired with a program of considerable originality. Neither the title, And So It Goes: Songs of Folk and Lore, nor the composers listed in the graphics -- Eric Whitacre, Ivor Novello, and Billy Joel -- really give the buyer an idea of what's contained here, although it is Joel's song that gives the album its title. Much of the music is Canadian, and it is the complex nature of much Canadian folk-pop that gives the album its flavor and its unusual way of blurring the lines between classical and vernacular material. Sample Fogarty's Cove, by...
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