Roth: A Time to Dance - Ex Cathedra

Alec Roth's new oratorio, A Time to Dance, is a celebration of times and seasons. Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra, who gave the première of the work in 2012, recreate the sheer exuberance of that live performance on this recording. The oratorio is paired with Roth's Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Hatfield Service) and Men & Angels, a clever setting of John Donne's Antiphon "Praised be the God of love."

1 Processional, 'Times and Seasons'
2 Prologue, 'Sunrise'
3 Awake
4 Infant Joy
5 Dancing on the Hill-Tops
6 Dance There
7 Nothing Is So Beautiful
8 Let Them Love
9 In Summer's Heat
10 A Something
11 Thirsty Fly
12 Little Fly
13 Come, Let Us Go
14 Give All to Love
15 O Autumn
16 Humdrum
17 Autumnal
18 Fall, Leaves, Fall
19 The Evening Star
20 Deep Midnight
21 Snowflakes
22 Dregs
23 A Glee for Winter
24 Lights Out
25 Epilogue, 'Sunrise'
26 After-Dance, 'Proper Exercise'
27 Magnificat
28 Nunc Dimittis
29 Men and Angels