Cantus - Fields of Wonder (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Dans la montagne: No. 1, L'appel de la cloche
02. Dans la montagne: No. 2, La Route
03. Dans la montagne: No. 3, Un jeune sapin se balance
04. Dans la montagne: No. 4, Soir
05. Dans la montagne: No. 5, Nuit
06. Edwin Morgan Sonnets, Vol. 02: No. 1, Post-Glacial
07. Edwin Morgan Sonnets, Vol. 02: No. 2, A Golden Age
08. Edwin Morgan Sonnets, Vol. 02: No. 3, The Mirror
09. N-400 Erasure Songs: No. 1, Form N-400 Erasures
10. N-400 Erasure Songs: No. 2, N-400 (an erasure)
11. N-400 Erasure Songs: No. 3, change [y]our Country
12. Protocol: No. 1, Self-Made
13. Protocol: No. 2, The Men Who Wore Lions
14. Protocol: No. 2, Prayer for the Uncertain Animal
15. Fields of Wonder: No. 1, Heaven
16. Fields of Wonder: No. 2, Snail
17. Fields of Wonder: No. 3, Big Sur
18. Fields of Wonder: No. 4, Moonlight night
19. Fields of Wonder: No. 5, Snake
20. Fields of Wonder: No. 6, New Moon
21. Fields of Wonder: No. 7, Birth

Their fifth release on Signum Classics, the “engaging” (New Yorker) men’s vocal ensemble Cantus present a collection of songs cycles by contemporary and living composers, exploring different kinds of journeys through song.

“These contrasting song cycles share an embrace of change, growth, acceptance and renewal, and through the collective experience of their journeys – great and small, painful and magical – we gain a clearer picture of life and of ourselves” (Cantus)

Cantus is known for innovative, relevant programming and their sourcing of fascinating music for concerts. Those elements come together beautifully in Fields of Wonder, a concert exploring the relationship between composers and the poets whose words they set to music. All of the music is composed or arranged by Black composers, with the title work by Margaret Bonds, a setting of poetry by her good friend Langston Hughes that has seldom been performed since its premiere in 1963. Elsewhere in the concert, there’s music based on sacred and secular texts, music for prayer and praise, music about love — and even music about dancing!

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