Released: April 28, 2023
Label: Navona Records
Composer: Shara Nova
Released: December 9, 2022
Label: New Focus Recordings
Composers: Shara Nova, Tyshawn Sorey, Edith Canat de Chizy, Joseph C. Phillips, Jr., LJ White, Samantha Fernando, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Nina Shekhar, Vanessa Lann, Mary Jane Leach, Alex Berko, Viet Cuong
Released: November 11, 2022
Label: New Amsterdam & Nonesuch Records
Composer: Tyondai Braxton
Released: September 23, 2022
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composers: John Luther Adams
Released: June 28, 2022
Label: Navona Records
Composers: Michael Gilbertson, Edie Hill
Released: April 9, 2021
Label: Navona Records
Composer: Gavin Bryars
Released: February 12, 2021
Label: Navona Records
Composers: Toivo Tulev, Gregory Spears, Joel Puckett
Released: December 11, 2020
Label: New Focus Recordings
Composers: David Lang, Joby Talbot, Eriks Ešenvalds, Dieterich Buxtehude, Paul Fowler, Alex Berko, Ted Hearne, Santa Ratniece
Released: May 22, 2020
Label: Navona Records
Composer: James Primosch
Released: March 20, 2020
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composer: Michael Gordon
Released: August 30, 2019
Label: Decca
Composer: Julia Wolfe
Released: August 23, 2019
Label: Innova Recordings
Composer: Robert Convery, Benjamin Boyle
Released: July 12, 2019
Label: Navona Records
Composer: Kile Smith
Released: June 28, 2019
Label: Navona Records
Composers: Edie Hill, Gregory W. Brown, James Shrader, Bruce Babcock, Jonathan Sheffer, Christopher J. Hoh
Released: September 28, 2018
Label: Innova Recordings
Composer: Lansing McLoskey
Released: February 23, 2018
Label: Innova Recordings
Composers: Stratis Minakakais, Gregory W. Brown
Released: May 12, 2017
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composer: John Luther Adams
Released: March 24, 2017
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composer: Ted Hearne
Released: December 14, 2016
Label: Innova Recordings
Composer: Santa Ratniece, Hans Thomalla, Caroline Shaw, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, David T. Little, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Paul Kane
Released: November 18, 2016
Label: ECM New Series
Composer: Gavin Bryars
Available: February 3-16, 2025 or by special arrangement
Shara Nova - Titration
Ayanna Woods - SHIFT
David Lang - stateless
Caroline Shaw - Her beacon hand beckons
Nicholas Cline - she took his hand
Robert Maggio - Democracy
Available: February 3-16, 2025 or by special arrangement
Ayanna Woods - Infinite Decay
Wang Lu - At Which Point
Tania León Singsong
U.S. Poet Laureate and 1987 Pulitzer winner Rita Dove has been describing our world in language that pulls back the curtain on how we love and gives breathtaking testimony to violence. Her words are set to music by 2021 Pulitzer winner Tania Leòn in a new work for MacArthur Fellow Claire Chase and The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally.
Ted Hearne's Farming, written for The Crossing, grapples with the impact of settler colonialism on current labor practices from tech to agriculture. Texts are drawn from William Penn and Jeff Bezos, UberEats ads, H2A visa searches, and more. Scored for 24 vocalists with guitars, percussion and electronics, Farming is a major event—immediate and virtuosic, with Ted’s stylistic eclecticism, driving rhythms, and explosive energy. "precise and luminion...the sweetest, saddest song." (New York Times)
John Luther Adams - Vespers of the Blessed Earth
Julia Wolfe - Fire In My Mouth
Julia Wolfe - Unearth
These works are for The Crossing with orchestra. Both Adams' Vespers and Wolfe's Unearth are centered around environmental issues and questions, with the New York Times calling the latter a "a sonic commentary on the wonders of biodiversity." Wolfe's Fire In My Mouth explores the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 in NYC.
In poor hymnal, a concert-length work written for The Crossing, David Lang considers the words of hymnals, which are woven into many varying religions as a catalog of ideals that worshipers agree upon; ideals such as how we treat and care for others, particularly those who are less fortunate. In poor hymnal, Lang poses the question: are the hymns we’re singing today truly reflective of a society that feels a responsibility to care for and support one another?
A ritual grotesquerie for choir and string quartet, SIN-EATER is a work of ritual music-theatre exploring the nature of power in western civilization through its connection to eating and food. Staged and costumed, this nearly-90 minute work is a contemporary oratorio for one character: The Crossing, asking tough questions in sumptuous music.
The Crossing presents an ambitious new commissioning project featuring premieres from 12 composers new to the group: Leila Adu, Ambrose Akinmusire, Alex Berko, Edith Canat de Chizy, Samantha Fernando, Mary Jane Leach, Shara Nova, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Nina Shekhar, Tyshawn Sorey, Eric Whitacre, LJ White.
Sumptuous Planet is an unaccompanied. concert-length expression of belief about the nature of life, and the joy we can find in understanding it, told through Richard Dawkins’ decidedly secular world view, paradoxically organized by composer David Shapiro in the shape of a Christian Mass. Sumptuous Planet captures the famed biologist’s thoughts on the magnificence and staggering beauty of nature, as well as its utter indifference to our presence here.