''Colors of Love'' is a Grammy Award winning 1999 album of contemporary

choral music A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which sp ...

by Chanticleer to a concept designed by

Frank Albinder Frank Scott Albinder is a conductor of male choral music. A former director of Chanticleer (ensemble), Chanticleer, Albinder currently conducts the Washington Men's Camerata, the Woodley Ensemble, and the Virginia Glee Club, and is president of I ...

. The album won

Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance The Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance (from 2013: Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance) has been awarded since 1997. In its early years, its title included the addition "(with or without a conductor)". In 1991 the Grammy f ...

at the

42nd Annual Grammy Awards The 42nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 23, 2000, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1999. Nominations were announced on January 4, 2000. Santana was the main r ...

.Craig Wright Listening to Western Music 1133953913 2012 Then, listen more generally to the beautifully clear a cappella sound of the performing group Chanticleer, which commissioned this work. The album (Colors of Love), on which The Rub of Love appears, won a Grammy in 2000.

Track listing

*Cradle songs. Rouxinol do pico preto (Brazil) (4:22) ; Lulajze, jezuniu (Poland)(3:52) ; Buy baby ribbon (Tobago) (2:15) by

Steven Stucky Steven Edward Stucky (November 7, 1949 − February 14, 2016) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer. Life and career Stucky was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. At age 9, he moved with his family to Abilene, Texas, where, as a teenager, he ...

(10:14) *Village wedding by

John Tavener Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious works. Among his best known works are '' The Lamb'' (1982), '' The Protecting Veil'' (1988), and ''Song ...

(9:39) *Canti d'amor. Winds of May, that dance on the sea (1:13) ; O cool is the valley (1:08) ; This heart that flutters near my heart (2:17) ; Silently she's combing her long hair (1:28) ; Gentle lady, do not sing sad songs (2:27) ; Sleep now, O you unquiet heart (1:37) ; All day I hear the noise of waters (2:13) by

Bernard Rands Bernard Rands (born 2 March 1934 in Sheffield, England) is a British-American contemporary classical music composer. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Mader ...

(12:32) *Words of the sun by

Zhou Long Zhou Long (; born July 8, 1953) is a Chinese American composer. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Biography Zhou Long was born in Beijing, China. Born into an artistic family, he began studying piano from an early age. Due to the artist ...

(4:43) *Tang poems. Written on a rainy night (3:20) ; Wild grass (2:14) by

Chen Yi Chen Yi may refer to: * Xuanzang (602–664), born as Chen Yi, Chinese Buddhist monk in Tang Dynasty * Chen Yi (Kuomintang) (1883–1950), Chief Executive of Taiwan Province * Chen Yi (marshal) (1901–1972), Chinese Communist Party military comman ...

(5:45) *The rub of love by

Augusta Read Thomas Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer and professor. Biography Thomas studied composition with Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood; Jacob Druckman at Yale University; Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University ...

(2:33) *In time of

Steven Sametz Steven Sametz (born 1954, Westport, Connecticut) is active as both conductor and composer. He has been hailed as "one of the most respected choral composers in America." Since 1979, he has been on the faculty of Lehigh University in Bethlehem ...

(9:17) *Love songs. Look out upon the stars, my love (1:22) ; Love is a beautiful dream (2:41) ; Alas, the love of women (2:43) ; For stony limits cannot hold love out (1:02) ; All mankind love a lover (0:58)

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References

{{reflist 1999 classical albums