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Stabat Mater
"If Ferko's Stabat Mater is not a masterpiece, it comes closer to being one than any contemporary composition I have heard in recent years . . . a transcendently beautiful work . . . crafted with a masterful hand . . . Give this recording a chance and you will discover much glorious music, as well as a greatly gifted and compelling new voice on the music scene." --Fanfare
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"This extended setting for unaccompanied chorus of an ancient Latin hymn...makes for compelling listening, passing through a wide variety of styles but always revealing Ferko to be a master at both text setting and handling a cappella forces." --Gramophone
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"Ferko's Stabat Mater is a remarkable achievement... This is music of of uncommon eloquence, transcendently moving with moments of striking inspirational beauty."--Chicago Tribune
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"It's a marvelously intricate and sincerely devout tour de force... "--Chicago Tribune
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"This music commands attention from its very first note. "--International Record Review
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"10/10 -- It as been a long time since a major new choral work could make such a good first impression
. . . Powerful and painfully beautiful music . . . A real find."--ClassicsToday.com
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The Hildegard Motets
"...we existed in a world of perfect harmony, created by the link between a mystical poet/composer of the 12th century and a composer very much of the 20th. Leaving it was not easy."
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Magnificat
"Perhaps my favorite piece here is a gorgeous setting of the classic Magnificat text in the King James Version from Frank Ferko. His music has earned the favor of choirs all over America and abroad." --American Record Guide
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O salutaris hostia
"...this brilliant anthem is set mostly homophonically with spectacular harmonies on beautiful phrase shapes. Treble voices will just simply ring on harmonies in both upper and lower tessituras. Ferko understands treble voices and therefore writes extremely well for this type of artistic force. A scholar of Hildegard von Bingen, Ferko uses chantlike phrase shapes and harmonies much like what you would find in the 12th century composer's music." --Spectrum Music Newsletter
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Hildegard Organ Cycle
"...Ferko's style has that mystical quality that defies the boundaries of time... It is definitely music that needs to be experienced rather than understood." --American Record Guide
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Variations on "Veni Creator Spiritus"
"Each succeeding variation offers strikingly new perspectives on the old tune. ... The work, while demanding, is truly satisfying and deserves a place among the fine variations of this noble tune. " --The Diapason
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