For your consideration...
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Skylark's album Crossing Over, our incredible collaboration with Sono Luminus, has been placed in consideration for nomination for a GRAMMY Award in four categories:
If you are a voting member, we hope you will consider supporting our recording in all of the categories. Our entries are listed as “Crossing Over.” If you are not familiar with our recording, we have included some highlights below. If you know other voting members who might consider supporting our album, we would be grateful if you would share this webpage. |
Crossing Over Chart highlights
- Debuted as the top new release on the Billboard Classical Chart
- Reached #1 Hot New Release on Amazon Classical
- Reached #4 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart
- Currently #34 rated album (based on purchaser reviews) of 375,000+ classical albums for sale on Amazon.com
Selected review highlights
"…gorgeous, evocative, and other-worldly…" Maggie Stapleton, Second Inversion | Read full review
"…can sway you softly into calm and then all but throw you across the room with sheer harmonic force…Try it with good headphones. You’ll be a little different when Skylark is done with you…" Porter Anderson, Music for Writers | Read full review
"…musically creative and intellectually rich..." Lucy Barnhouse, Opera Obsession | Read full review
"…Skylark is only recently on the scene, but this album opener knowingly reaches in through the ribs and grips the vitals…" Doyle Armbrust, Q2 Music/WQXR | Read full review
"…be prepared to be inspired…" Dean Frey, Music for Several Instruments | Read full review
“…serious students of modern choral music will find great originality and depth here…This is new music, put together in a new way, beautifully sung and recorded…” James Manheim, All Music | Read full review
“…scintillating…” Seán Ó Dálaigh, Primephonic | Read full review
“…finely judged tempi and dynamics…this choir’s wonderful control and shaping of phrases, as well as its fine sonorities add so much to these performances…" Bruce Reader, The Classical Reviewer (UK) | Read full review
“…a meditative and elevating listening experience, with the rich, warm recording seeming to surround you with the perfectly balanced voices of the ensemble…” Jeremy Shatan, An Earful | Read full review
The story of the album:
- Read the story of the album
- Q&A with Matthew Guard and Primephonic
- Q&A with Matthew Guard and Porter Anderson
Prestigious airplays:
- Played nationally and internationally on WQXR (New York), KUDC (LA), KFDC (SF), WABE (Atlanta), Canadian Public Broadcasting, NDR Kultur (Germany), and others
- Featured as Q2 Music’s Album of the Week
If you would like to listen, here are links to several album videos (full length tracks are available on numerous digital platforms):
- Elegy, Daniel Elder - Full length video with Score
- Heyr þu oss himnum a - Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Full track video
- Funeral Ikos, John Tavener - Preview video
- Heliocentric Meditation, Robert Vuichard - Preview video
Skylark artist reflections
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PS: Please note that according to the Recording Academy rules, members are not permitted to ask for or trade votes. Asking for consideration of support, however, is appropriate. Further, members are not permitted to mention the number assigned to the field, category or entry when asking for consideration, rather just the name of the field and categories (like above). Not observing these rules may lead to disqualification of entries and/or termination of membership.
