Conspirare & Craig Hella Johnson - Advena: Liturgies for a Broken World (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

advena: liturgies for a broken world, featuring world premieres of choral music from composer Mark Buller performed by GRAMMY® Award-winning choir Conspirare and Artistic Director Craig Hella Johnson.

Born of personal reckonings with inherited faith and culture, Mass in Exile and Requiem for the Light are liturgies shaped by the world of today. Composed by Mark Buller with librettist Leah Lax, these works reimagine these ancient forms with the immediacy our present moment demands. Composed by Mark Buller with librettist Leah Lax, these works reimagine ancient forms through the lens of our present moment. Buller’s vibrant musical language combines with mystical choral textures to create an emotional intensity that feels both intimate and urgent.

These works are presented between two companion works — Introit: Fruit of Your Heart and Communion: A Questioning— with texts by British poet and librettist Euan Tait which offer chant-like settings that extend the project’s core themes, anchoring the whole in a wider human arc.

Artistic Director and conductor Craig Hella Johnson is passionate about the power of Buller’s music in this moment, saying:

“We find ourselves in a pivotal cultural moment—one that calls for expressions of beauty and truth, offered both for inspiration but also as acts of resistance. This collaborative art—Mark Buller’s music and the words of Leah Lax and Euan Tait—creates a space of welcome where we are reminded of our shared humanity, our urgent need for bold truth-telling, and our capacity to heal and grow.”

Tracklist:
01. Buller- Introit- Fruit of Your Heart
02. Buller- Mass in Exile- I. For Want of Refuge. Miserere
03. Buller- Mass in Exile- II. Credo in Exile
04. Buller- Mass in Exile- III. Peaceable Kingdom. Gloria
05. Buller- Mass in Exile- IV. As Water Flows Away -Prayer for the Government-
06. Buller- Mass in Exile- V. Mercy. Kyrie
07. Buller- Mass in Exile- VI. Earth Sanctus -Body and Blood-
08. Buller- Mass in Exile- VII. When All Else Falls Away. Benedictus
09. Buller- Requiem in the Light- I. Lacrimosa for the Murdered
10. Buller- Requiem in the Light- II. Confutatis -Morning Light-
11. Buller- Requiem in the Light- III. Prayer to the Body. Domine Jesu
12. Buller- Requiem in the Light- IV. No Trumpets -Prayer to the Earth-. Dies Irae
13. Buller- Requiem in the Light- V. Requiem. Agnus Dei
14. Buller- Communion- A Questioning


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