Deeply refreshing Gregorian melodies receive Duruflé’s special harmonic treatment in a work that ChoralArt has not sung in more than a decade.

Songs of the Lights: A Salute to Canada features the glorious “Magnificat” and the ravishing “Ave verum corpus” of Imant Raminsh and concludes the program with delightful folksong settings of Stephan Chatman and Donald Patriquin.

Composed on a poem of the same name by Edgar Allen Poe, Rachmaninoff’s “The Bells” was identified by the composer, along with his “All-Night Vigil,” as his two favorite compositions.