Portland State So/Sperry - Eriks Esenvalds: Translations

The multi-award-winning Latvian composer ?riks E�envalds� 21stcentury choral sound is both exquisite and angular, and in this album he explores ideas of �translation�, legend and the divine. With his expanded tonality and employment of shimmering singing handbells in Translation, and the angelic use of the viola and cello in In paradisum he creates music of ravishing refinement. In The Legend of the Walled-In Woman E�envalds transcribes and employs an authentic Albanian folk song.