This 3 CD collection brings together composer Julian Wachner’s most important works for orchestra and voices from the early breakthrough “Canticles” [1990] through his monumental “Symphony No. 1” [2001] and theatrically-charged “Regina Coeli” [2002] to his secular ghost-story oratorio “Come, My Dark-Eyed One” [2008] and jazzy, blues-infected Blue, Green, Red [2014] for trumpet and organ. Recorded in the superb acoustics of Trinity Church, NYC, and featuring the combined forces of the GRAMMY-nominated Choirs of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY, Trinity’s resident new music orchestra. Mr. Wachner’s compositions have been described as “jazzy, energetic, and ingenious” by the Boston Globe, having “splendor, dignity, and sophisticated chromatic exploration” by La Scena Musicale, being “a compendium of surprises” by the Washington Post, and as “bold and atmospheric”, having “an imaginative flair for allusive text setting” and noted for “the silken complexities of his harmonies” by the New York Times.
