Roth,A. / Skidmore,Jeffrey Time To Dance CD

Alec Roth's new oratorio, A Time to Dance, is a celebration of times and seasons. Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra, who gave the premi?re of the work in 2012, recreate the sheer exuberance of that live performance on this recording. The oratorio is paired with Roth's Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Hatfield Service) and Men & Angels, a clever setting of John Donne's Antiphon "Praised be the God of love."

1. Processional, 'Times and Seasons' 2. Prologue, 'Sunrise' 3. Awake 4. Infant Joy 5. Dancing on the Hill-Tops 6. Dance There 7. Nothing Is So Beautiful 8. Let Them Love 9. In Summer's Heat 10. A Something 11. Thirsty Fly 12. Little Fly 13. Come, Let Us Go 14. Give All to Love 15. O Autumn 16. Humdrum 17. Autumnal 18. Fall, Leaves, Fall 19. The Evening Star 20. Deep Midnight 21. Snowflakes 22. Dregs 23. A Glee for Winter 24. Lights Out 25. Epilogue, 'Sunrise' 26. After-Dance, 'Proper Exercise' 27. Magnificat 28. Nunc Dimittis 29. Men and Angels