Recorded live on October 3, 2021 in Chronos Vocal Ensemble's first live performance since COVID-19, at St. Timothy's Anglican Church (Edmonton).

Commissioned by Chronos Vocal Ensemble in 2020.

All singers are masked in this recording.

Text by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374):
Trans. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1903

I saw how tears had left their weary traces
Within those eyes that once the sun outshone,
I heard those lips, in low and plaintive moan,
Breathe words to stir the mountains from their places.
Love, wisdom, courage, tenderness, and truth
Made in their mourning strains more high and dear
Than ever wove soft sounds for mortal ear;
And heaven seemed listening in such saddest ruth
The very leaves upon the bough to soothe,
Such sweetness filled the blissful atmosphere.


Recording Engineer: Ron Yachimec
Editing and Mastering: Jordan Van Biert

Performance © 2020 Chronos Music Society of Alberta

Breathe (Matthew Emery)

Franz Schubert - Die Nacht
Recorded Nov 24 2013
Debut Recital

Die Nacht (Schubert)

Johannes Brahms - O Heiland, reiss die himmel auf
Recorded November 24, 2013
Debut Recital

O Heiland, reiss die himmel auf (Brahms)

Trent Worthington
Rimini 1944: To Gain The Crest
From "The Simplest Way: The Music of Trent Worthington" (2016)
Commissioned by Chronos Vocal Ensemble in 2015

Text: “A Canuck in Italy” – written by an unknown Canadian soldier while in action at Rimini, 1944

Death, gloating in its shroud, did cover me,
Tempting my tired soul to gain its rest.
“Rise from this wet and mud-bound sea,
What matters if you fall – to gain the crest?”

“Crawling, stumbling, blindly falling,
Groping for the top.
For what, you idiotic fool? Does rest deter you not?
Is not this pain, the price that greed has wrought?
Why struggle on to lose that which you sought?”

Then, light! Oh, brilliant dazzling beam!
You spectrum of a soldier’s dream,
Bursting forth to free my soul,
Through closed, pink lids I saw my goal.

Excelling all in simplicity
Stood Christ on a cross -- humanity.

Rimini 1944: To Gain The Crest (Worthington)

The Road Home(2001)
Stephen Paulus
Recorded on May 28, 2017 at St. Andrew's United Church (Edmonton)

The Road Home (Paulus)

Recorded on May 28, 2017 at St. Andrew's United Church(Edmonton).
Commissioned by Chronos Vocal Ensemble in 2017

Canate Domino (Jeff Enns)

Composer: Paul Aitken 
Text source/poet: 
Publisher  & Publisher catalogue number: Cypress Choral Music CP 1711

Recorded for the 2019	National	Competition for Canadian Amateur	Choirs

Au clair de la lune

Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Text source/poet: Psalms 96 & 98
Publisher  & Publisher catalogue: Colla Voce Music LLC 44-96710
Recorded for	the 2019	National	Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs

Cantate Domino (Monteverdi)

Composer: Nicholas Piper
Text source/poet: Ode 11 from Odes of Solomon ca. 2nd century 
Publisher  & Publisher catalogue number: Musica Trans Aeva MTA12
Recorded for	the 2019	National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs

My Heart Was Cloven

Composer: Francis Poulenc
Text source/poet: From Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence; After Psalm 54
Publisher  & Publisher catalogue number: Durand BT.SLB-00524400

Recorded for the 2019 National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs

Timor et Tremor

Composer: Nicholas Piper
Text source/poet: Ode 11 from Odes of Solomon ca. 2nd Century 
Publisher  & Publisher catalogue number: Musica Trans Aeva MTA12
Recorded for the 2019	National	Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs

Behold! All Thy Servants Are Fair

By Kristopher Fulton (Vancouver)
Commissioned by Chronos Vocal Ensemble in 2019
Recorded on February 7, 2020 at Trinity Lutheran Church (Edmonton)
Jordan Van Biert, conductor
Recording: Ron Yachimec
Recording Assistant: Trent Worthington
Editing: Jochen Eggert

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