Argento: Walden Pond/Dale Warland Singers

Nominated for Best Choral Performance Grammy in 2003!Composer and librettist Dominick Argento is one of America’s leading composers and among the most frequently performed 20th-century composers of opera. His chamber pieces as well have met with international acclaim. Argento has a long history of collaboration with the Dale Warland Singers; this new release features a world-premiere recording of the composer’s Walden Pond, a song cycle based on text by Henry David Thoreau and scored for chorus, three cellos, and harp.