ECSTATIC SONGS (mirabai women's choir)

mirabai, a professional-level women’s chamber ensemble under the direction of Sandra Snow, is thrilled to present its inaugural recording.

Ecstatic Songs showcases a commission by ASCAP award-winning composer David Brunner and features highly acclaimed soprano, Lindsay Kesselman. The work utilizes the words of the ensemble’s namesake, Mirabai, a 16th-century mystic and poet, as she explores her devotion to Krishna. The project also contains works by 17th-century female composers, contemporary American composers Abbie Betinis, Andrea Clearfield, and Andrea Ramsey, among others, with texts that explore the rich emotional terrain of women’s lives.

Snow founded the ensemble in order to enhance the artistic expectations of women’s choral singing by connecting powerful music of women, past and present; and performing, commissioning, and recording new and innovative music.

1.       Moon Goddess - JOCELYN HAGEN     5:05

2.       Stabat mater - SULPITA CESIS   4:34 ed. Meredith Y. Bowen

3.       Regna terrae, cantate Deo - CHIARA MARGARITA COZZOLANI   4:22 ed. Meredith Y. Bowen

Elizabeth Fisher, mezzo-soprano

Holly Lewis Pemberton, mezzo-soprano

Hallie Reed, soprano

4.       Wandl’ ich in dem wald des abends - FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL  2:16

Ecstatic songs - DAVID L. BRUNNER

5.       All I was doing was breathing               8:34

6.       Don’t go!      6:16

7.       Mira has finished with waiting      5:09

Lindsay Kesselman, soprano

8.       A Blessing of cranes - ABBIE BETINIS          8:03

9.       When I was the forest - DANIEL BREWBAKER   5:14

10.   The peace of wild things - SEAN IVORY        5:53

11.   The kiss - ANDREA CLEARFIELD              7:30

Molly Murdock, mezzo-soprano

12.   The look - JUSSI CHYDENIUS                  2:44

Sarah Price, soloist

13.   Lineage - ANDREA RAMSEY                                    3:35

14.   Truth - ANDREA RAMSEY                       4:02