photo: Nino Felbab • Utstein Kloster • Mosterøy, Norway • august 2023
june 13, 2025 release
Sky of my Heart
Featuring Nico Muhly’s My Days, an extended work for male quartet and viol consort, and many works written for New York Polyphony by living composers.
Akemi Naito’s Tsuki no Waka – Six Poems for the Moon by Saigyo on texts of the 12th-century Japanese poet Saigyo; Becky McGlade’s Of the Father’s Love Begotten; our long-time friend and collaborator Andrew Smith’s Katarsis, a stunning setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, dedicated to his father who died of cancer in 2020. Paul Moravec, one of the most important living American composers, gifted us two settings of Walt Whitman poems. Completing the sequence are works by William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Tavener, and Ivan Moody.
Critically acclaimed for a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts,” (NPR) and as “singers of superb musicianship and vocal allure” (The New Yorker), New York Polyphony is one of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today. Their innovative programming spans Gregorian chant to contemporary commissions, and their focus on familiar and rare works of the 12-17th centuries has helped bring early music to modern audiences.
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