Christmas From Home

We're so excited to announce our program for the Winter 2020-2021 Season! A continuation of Songs From Home, Christmas From Home is a fresh take on virtual choral programming. In a world stocked full of virtual choirs and concerts, we've decided to take a more interactive approach. This program includes digitally aleatoric settings of chants for the Christmas & Advent seasons, allowing listeners to create their own version of the piece each time they listen. Aside from this brand new format, we're featuring two world premieres in Christmas From Home!

Among these three chant melodies is a newly commissioned chant written by Maryland-based composer Christen Holmes. The final portion of the program includes the world premiere of the winning piece from our first-ever Composition Contest! ​Click below to hear now.

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New Album Out Now!

We're so excited to be releasing out fourth album, and third available in our shop, The Town Lay Hushed!​ Over the last five years, Lux has built our reputation performing contemporary and modern choral music. It’s a world of music that we as a group are incredibly passionate about and very much enjoy performing. The relationships we build and interactions we’ve had with living composers as we perform their music are second to none. With The Town Lay Hushed, though, we wanted to explore something new, which is to say, something old. Buy your copy today, and if you like what you hear, become a patron and support our future projects!

The Town Lay Hushed

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"This is a wonderful holiday gift, beautiful music by Lux. Congratulations [to them] on this labor of love!"

"This CD will be a wonderful addition to our holiday music."

Over the last five years, Lux has built our reputation performing contemporary and modern choral music. It’s a world of music that we as a group are incredibly passionate about and very much enjoy performing. The relationships we build and interactions we’ve had with living composers as we perform their music are second to none. With The Town Lay Hushed, though, we wanted to explore something new, which is to say, something old.

Track Listing

1. Hodie Christus natus est, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
2. A Spotless Rose, Herbert Howells
3. Legend (The Crown of Roses), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
4. O magnum mysterium, Tomás Luis de Victoria
5. Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe, Felix Mendelssohn
6. The Truth Sent From Above, Ralph Vaughan Williams
7. Quem vidistis, pastores?, Andrea Gabrieli
8. Lulla, Lullaby, William Byrd
9. Ave Maria, Anton Bruckner
10. Ave Maria, Rebecca Clarke
11. O virgo virginum, Josquin des Prez
12. O Little Town of Bethlehem, Thomas Tallis
13. Virga Jesse, Anton Bruckner
14. Coventry Carol, Anonymous
15. Nyne otpushchayeshi, Sergei Rachmaninoff

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My Lord Has Come

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Lux's first Christmas release, My Lord Has Come features some of our own favorite Christmas songs and arrangements for choir, including beautiful, gushing settings of well-known carols, as well as more traditional choral pieces which have become standards of the Christmas choral repertoire. Blending the known and lesser known choral pieces that we've come to love into one release; using simple arrangements of classic hymns next to more dense arrangements of classic melodies like Rathbone's "Silent Night", and finally including other Christmas anthems which might be less familiar, like Howells's "Sing Lullaby" or Pärt's "O Weisheit".

Track Listing

1. O Weisheit, Arvo Pärt
2. O Adonai, Arvo Pärt
3. There Is No Rose , Jonathan Lane
4. O Nata Lux de Lumine, Thomas Tallis
5. Silent Night [Live], arr. Jonathan Rathbone
6. There Is A Flower, John Rutter
7. Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, arr. Stefan Claas
8. Ave Maria (Angelus Domini) [Live], Franz Biebl
9. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, Michael Praetorious
10. Coventry Carol, arr. Ola Gjeilo
11. My Lord Has Come, arr. Will Todd
12. I Wonder As I Wander, arr. Andrew Carter
13. In The Bleak Midwinter, Gustav Holst
14. Sing Lullaby, Herbert Howells
15. O Magnum Mysterium, Brian A. Schmidt
16. O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen

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Now Ye Heavenly Powers

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A Featured Album on YourClassical MPR, our second album, Now Ye Heavenly Powers represents the best of the Lux's favorite repertoire over the 2017-2018 seasons, shedding light on many new and familiar composers, established and growing, as well as a few long-standing favorites of the choral repertoire. Aside from their prowess as a mixed ensemble, this album features works for just tenors and basses, as well as for sopranos and altos. Lux puts their versatility on display in their second release, featuring works from Bruckner, to Whitacre, to Dave Matthews, and more.

Track Listing

1. A Spotless Rose (Paul Mealor)
2. The Heart's Reflection (Daniel Elder)
3. Crucifixus (Antonio Lotti)
4. Gravedigger (Dave Matthews, arr. Timothy Takach)
5. Let My Love Be Heard (Jake Runestad)
6. Prayer of the Children (Kurt Bestor, arr. Andrea Clouse)
7. Silence (Kevin Memley)
8. A Boy and a Girl (Eric Whitacre)
9. Famine Song (VIDA, arr. Matthew Culloton)
10. Alleluia (Eric Whitacre)
11. Song for Athene (John Tavener)
12. Now Ye Heavenly Powers (Aleksandr Sheremetev)
13. Christus Factus Est (Anton Bruckner)

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We're streaming!

Our latest release, My Lord Has Come, is now available on Spotify and Apple Music! Lux's second commercial album, My Lord Has Come features 54 minutes of our own favorite Christmas songs and arrangements for choir, including beautiful, gushing settings of well-known carols. Blending the popular and the lesser known pieces that we've come to love into one release; My Lord Has Come includes simple arrangements of classic hymns next to more lush arrangements of classic melodies like Rathbone's Silent Night, and finally including other Christmas & Advent anthems like Howells's Sing Lullaby or Pärt's O Weisheit.
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