Scotland's world-class consort sings a program of American contemporaries, Samuel Barber and Aaron Copland. Barber's comfortable use of the traditional and Copland's drive to create an original American music meet in the fact that each composer used word settings of poetry and literature as the basis from which to express their instinctive feel for the human voice. Copland's "In the Beginning" and "Four Motets for a cappella" create a natural audio bracketing of Barbers' "Reincarnations," "The Virgin Martyrs," and the 1936 setting of Emily Dickinson's "Let Down the Bars, O Death." The singing is incomparable!