Belle Canto
Released: September 1, 2006
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Invocation takes its name from the title track by Edmonton composer Margaret King (who is also featured on the recording at the piano). The disc features other Canadian works, a selection of English madrigals, Brahms’s richest-scored work for female voices, and a Missa ferialis drawn from Miklós Kocsár’s Missa in A. Also featuring Nora Bumanis, harp; and Gerald Onciul and Mary Fearon, horns.

1 – Invocation · Margaret King (5:54)

From Missa in A · Miklós Kocsár
2 – Kyrie (2:13)
3 – Sanctus (3:06)
4 – Agnus Dei (3:52)
5 – Ave Maria · Aleksandar Vujič (2:34)

6 – Ave Maria · David MacIntyre (2:49)

7 – Ave Maria · Eleanor Daley (4:19)

8 – Nigra Sum · Pablo Casals (4:32)

9 – In Going To My Lonely Bed · Richard Edwards (2:04)

10 – Weep, O Mine Eyes · John Wilbye (2:41)

11 – The Silver Swan · Orlando Gibbons (1:29)

12 – Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite · John Dowland (2:18)

13 – Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting All Alone · John Farmer (1:21)

Gesänge, op. 17 · Johannes Brahms
14 – Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang (F. Ruperti) · (3:25)
15 – Lied von Shakespeare · (1:50)
16 – Der Gärtner (J. Eichendorff) · (3:28)
17 – Gesang aus Fingal (Ossian) · (5:28)

From Moni kakku päältä kaunis · Pekka Kostiainen
18 – Armahan kulku (2:44)
19 – Onpa tietty tietyssäni (0:53)

20 – Hegyi Éjszakák I · Zoltán Kodály (5:12)

21 – Magos a Rutafa · Lajos Bárdos (5:09)

22 – Pseudo-Yoik Lite · Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (2:16)

Total timing – 1:10:46