The first recording from SDG Records and the premiere performance and recording from Almeda Berkey and Nebraska's Professional Chorale, Soli Deo Gloria Cantorum. Also included are five wonderful arrangements from the Berkeys' mentor, Norman Luboff. Choral masterpieces over the centuries round out this first opus from the Cantorum.
Arma Lucis • The Armour of Light
Soli Deo Gloria Cantorum
Almeda Berkey, Music Director
Almeda Berkey, Music Director
the recording
that started it all!
Suggested Retail
$15.98 / $10.98
SDG 89 CD/Cassette
This premiere recording of Arma Lucis has served as a model for hundreds of performances of this 12-minute a cappella work that is fast establishing itself in the standard choral repertoire. The Detroit Concert Choir's July 1996 performance of Arma Lucis at the Eisteddfod Festival in Wales won them the title, Choir of the World. We at SDG Records send our heartiest congratulations to Gordon Nelson and his fine singers!
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Arma Lucis, The Armour of Light
Quotes & Reviews
Were You There (Luboff)
Crucifixus (Lotti)
Christus Factus Est (Bruckner)
Arma Lucis (Berkey)
O Vos Omnes (Vittoria)
Kyrie (Nystedt)
Ubi Caritas (Duruflé)
Cherubim Hymn (Rachmaninoff)
Chester (Billings)
More Love (Sid Davis)
Deep River (Luboff)
All My Trials (Luboff)
Wearing of the Green (Luboff)
Wade in the Water (Luboff)
"Arma Lucis is a super album! It was quite teary to hear Norman's arrangements so lovingly recreated."
John Rutter
John Rutter
"Highlights are Jackson Berkey's Arma Lucis and Knut Nystedt's Kyrie."
CD Review
"We don't carry many classical choral collections, but this one is quite special ... Impeccable taste and admirable subtlety."
Primarily A Cappella
"The Lotti Crucifixus and the Victoria O vos omnes are outstanding. The Nystedt Kyrie presented here is the best version I have heard."
William O. Baker, Chorus!
William O. Baker, Chorus!
"As for the Norman Luboff arrangements, they are as close to the real thing as anyone could come."
Gunilla Luboff
