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musica intima

ACD2 2284

nternationally renowned for performances and recordings that sparkle with insight, youthfulness and a vibrant musicality, musica intima has earned a reputation as one of Canada's most exciting vocal ensembles.

Based in Vancouver, 12 professional singers make up the personnel of musica intima.   Lloyd Dykk of the Vancouver Sun says “the flexibility and agility that are a function of their small size is partly what makes them so exciting.”   But what makes musica intima truly unique is that they rehearse and perform without a conductor.   In rehearsal, they exchange ideas freely while exploring their own musical creativity.   In performance they engage the audience with a spontaneity and freshness all their own
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Ivan Moody Canticum Canticorum   1. Surge, propera amica mea     2:43   2. Descendi in hortum meum     1:51   3. Ego dilecto meo     1:59 Urmas Sisak from Gloria Patri   4. Confitemini Domino     2:16   5. Kyrie     2:49   6. Benedicamus     1:31   7. Oremus     7:13 José Evangelista   8. O quam sauvis eat     4:50 Knut Nystedt   9. O crux     6:04 Barrie Cabena 10. I waited for the Lord     3:44 Arvo Part 11. I am the true vine     8:18 John Tavener 12. Funeral Ikos     6:40 Stephen Chatman 13. You have ravished my heart     3:50       Total Time     54:41