REVIEWS
Music of the Spheres & Songs for the Journey
- Organists’ Review, June 2020
The composer describes himself as a ‘stargazer’ and Music of the Spheres, a five-movement work scored for SSAATTBB a cappella choir with optional keyboard, celebrates the eternal fascination of humans for constellations. Siegfried dedicated this work to Arnold Benz, the Swiss astrophysicist, and the heavenly-themed texts are from Psalm 19, Johannes Kepler and John Donne.
Annunciation
- Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians, October 2019
The day of Mary’s encounter with Gabriel is considered in three movements corresponding to the section of Jeannette Lindholm’s poem Triptych. The first movement places Mary within the first century context with all its mundane trappings. Wordless alto, tenor, and bass accompany the soprano narrative until the entrance of the archangel, when all voices join in announcing the visitor.
VIDIMUS STELLAM
- Choral Journal, March 2019
Kevin Siegfried’s brand-new Christmas cantata Vidimus Stellam (We Have Seen His Star) fulfills, more than adequately, a need for a concisely written Christmas piece with moderate performing forces. Commissioned through the efforts of four choirs, Vidimus Stellam is written in honor of, and inspired by, Daniel Pinkham’s 1957 Christmas Cantata.
Simple Gifts
The Tudor Choir
The singing from this chamber choir from the Pacific Northwest is as graceful and unpretentious as the music. Once again, it’s the simple gifts that turn out to be the pearls of greatest price.
—The American Record Guide
Harvest Home
The Dale Warland Singers
If you remember a time when truth, in all areas of life, was a virtue, when personal responsibility was the rule, when everyone, young and old, knew the old hymns and songs of faith and communal fellowship, then you will appreciate the sentiments expressed by many of the pieces on this fine disc, one of the last CDs from the Dale Warland Singers before the group's "retirement" in May, 2004.
— David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com
Gentle Words
The Tudor Choir
It’s nice to see that some of America’s early music has caught the attention of recording labels lately. This new recording by the excellent but little-known Tudor Choir is a stunning addition to the repertoire and a midyear candidate for my 2001 Want List.
— Craig Zeichner, Fanfare Magazine