A Dream So Bright: Choral Music of Jake Runestad

True Concord Voices & Orchestra’s newest album, A Dream So Bright, features 2 World Premiere Recordings of works by Jake Runestad. His Emmy®­-winning choral and orchestral work, Earth Symphony, with poetry of Todd Boss, was commissioned and premiered by True Concord in 2022. This is the third album at NativeDSD from the True Concord Voices & Orchestra. Following their earlier releases Far In The Heavens and Christmas With True Concord: Carols In The American Voice. Dreams of the Fallen, Runestad’s prize­-winning work for solo piano, chorus & orchestra, features pianist Jeffrey Biegel and includes texts of the poet Brian Turner, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan war. Turner states: When the music lifts to its peak, when the choir sings into the high cathedral of the human experience—the hairs on the back of my neck take notice, my own heart takes notice, and I am moved once again by the fusion of sound and story. “Dreams of the Fallen” is a compassionate, emotionally­ layered, elegant, and poignant work of art that I am proud to be a part of. A Dream So Bright was recorded, edited and mixed by Steven Kaplan, mastered by John Polito, and produced by Grammy®­-award winner Peter Rutenberg of Los Angeles. Recorded May 24–26, 2023 at Camelback Bible Church, Paradise Valley, Arizona.

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True Concord Voices & Orchestra Eric Holtan, Conductor Jeffrey Biegel, piano