This is a track from Concerto Palatino's new CD (to be released June
2023 for the label Passacaille)called, Ex tenebris ad lucem: Venetian Music of Penitence from a time of Plague (1575-77). The CD juxtaposes music from the Venetian plague years with a newly commissioned work of American composer Robert Kyr. Here you can hear the second half of Kyr's work, which alternates transformed excepts of Venetian motets from the time of the plague with brief arias for soprano soloist(Hana Blazikova) accompanied by cornetto, violin, violone and organ.

Kyr - Virgil From Darkness Into Light Excerpt

Performed by Cascadian Chorale who commissioned this work in 2014.  Gary Cannon conducts; full album called "Welcome Home".  Poetry by Stephen Crane. 
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A Lantern Voice by Giselle Wyers

Live performance, 2019, with Cascadian Chorale, string quartet and piano. Gary Cannon, conductor.  
Czeslaw Milosz “Encounter”
We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn.
A red wing rose in the darkness.
 
And suddenly a hare ran across the road.
One of us pointed to it with his hand.
 
That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive.
Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.
 
O my love, where are they, where are they going
The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles.
I ask not out of sorrow but in wonder.

Wyers - And All Shall Be Well - "Encounter" (Mvmt 1)

Giselle Wyers

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