Album Notes

ANTIPHONIA captures the acclaimed program that The Esoterics reprised in Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and Everett in November 1999.

ANTIPHONIA consists of six choral masterpieces, each from a different nationality — Swedish and Swiss, Finnish, and French, British and American — and each with a unique rendition of antiphony (from the Greek antiphon, “singing across”).

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer deemed The Esoterics’ performance of ANTIPHONIA a “triumph” and a program “as difficult as any … [The Esoterics] … have undertaken.” The journal 21st Century Music praised the sound of the group as “sublime, pure, luxuriant, velvety … The initial phrases gave me chills; it was as if angels were singing.”