The remarkable Women of The Crossing offer a recording that is as virtuosic as it is emotional, resonating with recurring themes of desire and strength, peace, and longing. Featuring Pulitzer Laureate David Lang's this condition(2005), his wrenching I live in pain (written for the ensemble in 2010) and the title track, I want to live(2004) and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s ultra-minimal, brilliant Statements is contrasted in the richly textured, Tibetan-inspired works of Paul Fowler; his Echoes (2010), also written for the ensemble. 

Finally, William Brooks’ Six Mediaeval Lyrics (2006), written for Trio Mediaeval and expanded in scope and texture for The Crossing.This is an hour of some of today’s finest choral writing for women’s ensemble and a must-have for followers of these composers.

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