We are pleased and honored to share that OCHRE from The Crossing and Navona Records has received the GRAMMY® Award for “Best Choral Performance” following its November 2024 nomination.
Congratulations to The Crossing, conductor Donald Nally, and composers Ayanna Woods, Caroline Shaw, and George Lewis on this exciting achievement!
Named Musical America’s 2024 Ensemble of The Year, The Crossing has released 18 albums with PARMA, beginning in 2009 with VESPERS. Four of The Crossing’s Navona Records releases have been nominated, and OCHRE comes as the second GRAMMY® award-winning album from the pair.
Listen to the GRAMMY® Award-winning album OCHRE along with The Crossing’s full catalog of works on Navona Records.
OCHRE
The Crossing, Ayanna Woods, George Lewis, Caroline Shaw
Displaying their characteristic, fearless virtuosity, The Crossing offers a new album born of cultural resonance OCHRE, with new works by three of the most creative composers working today.
The performances here are both rigorous and supple, moving from the intriguing, foggy textures of George Lewis to Caroline Shaw’s primarily wordless, quiet contemplation of the Earth, to Ayanna Woods’ inspired determination to live in a better world.
This is The Crossing’s 13th release on Navona Records, and it is a special one. Topical, timely, and forward-looking, these performances of the 24-voice ensemble led by conductor Donald Nally demonstrate why Gramophone recently observed the group’s ability to “sustain long lines, clarify layers of dense counterpoint and pinpoint the expressive intent of every detail, however minute or cataclysmic.”
“The Crossing applies characteristic precision, nuance and luminescence to three works that are resonant (and relevant) beyond the compelling sounds they offer. Each of the pieces embraces a distinctive vision of the world, with subjects ranging from justice, freedom and existence to compounds that make up the geological and human world.”
– Donald Rosenberg, Gramophone Magazine
