2018 GRAMMY WINNER: Best Choral Performance. Premiered by The Crossing and PRISM in July 2014, Gavin Bryars’ The Fifth Century is an elegiac setting of meditations of 17th-century metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne – a true magnum opus from one of the world’s great composers. The New York Times called the work a ”poignant lament” and the performance ”superb” and ”eloquent.” With Gavin’s beautiful Petrarch settings, Two Love Songs for women’s choir, this album is a fitting soundtrack for a wounded world.
”Eternity magnifies our joys exceedingly.”