| Follow Marco Polo’s epic journey with the Grammy-winning Kansas City Chorale conducted by Charles Bruffy on the Mirage Calls. This new recording features music from Rome to the Far East including Chen Yi’s Chinese Folk Songs, lavish choral tapestries of the Mongolian steppe, thunderous rhythms from the Middle East and India, and recently restored from the Vatican library, witness the first performance in nearly 500 years of Bartolome de Escobedo’s masterpiece, Missa ad te levavi.
In the 13th century, the Venetian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled the length of the Silk Road, from Italy to China. He encountered the peoples and cultures along the way, marveling at wonders in Constantinople, Samarkand, Singapore, Sumatra and Shangdu. He returned to Italy bearing rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds.
1. Zikr (Arr. for Chorus by Ethan Sperry) (5:14)
2. Dorven Dalai (Arr. for Chorus by Yongrub): The Four Seas (2:47)
3. Zeregleent Gobi (“Mirage on the Gobi Desert”) (12:59)
4. Missa ad te levavi: I. Kyrie eleison (1:57)
5. Missa ad te levavi: II. Christe eleison (1:18)
6. Missa ad te levavi: III. Kyrie eleison (2:05)
7. Missa ad te levavi: IV. Gloria; Et in terra pax (2:56)
8. Missa ad te levavi: V. Domine Deus (1:08)
9. Missa ad te levavi: VI. Qui tollis peccata mundi (4:05)
10. Missa ad te levavi: VII. Credo; Patrem omnipotentem (5:27)
11. Missa ad te levavi: VIII. Crucifixus (3:12)
12. Missa ad te levavi: IV. Et in Spiritum Sanctum (4:26)
13. Missa ad te levavi: X. Sanctus (3:13)
14. Missa ad te levavi: XI. Osanna (1:09)
15. Missa ad te levavi: XII. Benedictus (1:56)
16. Missa ad te levavi: XIII. Osanna (1:17)
17. Missa ad te levavi: XIV. Agnus Dei I (2:29)
18. Missa ad te levavi: XV. Agnus Dei II (0:35)
19. Missa ad te levavi: XVI. Agnus Dei III (2:50)
20. Mo Li Hua (Arr. for Chorus by Chen Yi) (2:39)
21. Diu Diu Deng (Arr. for Chorus by Chen Yi) (1:50)
22. The Flowing Stream (Arr. for Chorus by Chen Yi) (4:09) |
