LIBERA 'PEACE' CONTEST

Saturday, 27 February 2010 23:24 Written by Administrator

WIN A COPY OF PEACE – THE NEW ALBUM FROM LIBERA

We have teamed up with EMI Classics to offer you the chance to win a copy of Libera’s new album Peace, which is released on 8^th March 2010 and a Libera poster!

The programme comprises songs drawn from plainsong and traditional hymns, based on themes by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, César Franck and Chopin and by Robert Prizeman and John Rutter.

Peace follows the success of Libera’s best-selling albums Angel Voices, Free, Visions and New Dawn. Each CD has been characterised by the ensemble’s distinctive celestial, shimmering sound with mystical chords and ecstatic harmonies.

Libera’s founder, the composer/arranger/conductor Robert Prizeman, said, "It is a great privilege to work regularly with the young singers of Libera, an honour to play a part in their musical development, to be fired up and challenged by their talent, bubbling enthusiasm and freshness”

The twenty-odd boys who make up Libera are each between seven and fourteen years of age and attend local schools in South West London. “Normal” boys, they love to play football, skateboard and listen to R’n’B and punk music. But through their involvement in Libera, they have travelled the world, recorded movie soundtracks and CDs and served as backing singers to mega-stars like Bjork, Elton John and Pavarotti. The boys have a stunningly original sound, which is at once both ancient and modern. Their distinctive flowing white robes symbolise the traditional origins of their style - yet their music reaches across the generations to a new mainstream audience.

Libera tours are currently being arranged in Japan, South Korea, the UK and the US. Tout dates will be announced on Libera’s website when they have been confirmed. EMI Classics is also scheduled to release a luxury CD+DVD edition of Peace in November 2010.