This album takes a close look at Chanticleer’s most beloved composers and works juxtaposing pieces from Renaissance and Baroque composers (Lassus, Byrd, Morley, Palestrina etc.) with 20th American works composed or arranged by Stucky, Bates, Gershwin (Summertime) and members of Chanticleer.

1. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) - Motets, Book 5 : Gaude gloriosa
2. Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) - Surrexit pastor bonus
3. William Byrd (1538-1623) - Ave verum corpus
4. Steven Stucky (1949-2016) - Whispers
5. Allen Shearer (b.1943) - Nude descending a staircase
6. Thomas Morley (1557-1602) - Now is the Month of Maying
7. Jacob Arcadelt (1507-1568) - Il bianco e dolce cigno
8. Mason Bates (b.1977) - Stelle, vostra mercè l’eccelse sfere (from “Sirens”)
9. William Hawley (b.1950) - Io son la primavera
10. Antonio de Salazar (1650-1715) Ed. by Craig H. Russell - Salve Regina
11. George Gershwin (1898-1937) - Summertime (from “Porgy and Bess”)
12. Michael McGlynn (b.1964) - Dúlamán
13. Trad. Hungarian, arr. Stacy Garrop (b.1969) - Jarba, Mare Jarba
14. Sholom Secunda (1894-1974) - Bei mir bist du shein
15. James Woodie Alexander (1916-1996) arr. by J.H. Jennings - Straight Street
16. Traditional arr. By Robert Shaw - I want to die easy
17. Traditional Appalachian Folk Hymn arr. By Robert Shaw/Alice Parker - Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
18. Traditional arr. by J.H. Jennings - Keep your hand on the plow
19. Steven Sametz (b.1954) - I Have Had Singing