Artist Roster & Grammy Nominees

Today we wanted to share with you our artist roster here at Loft Recordings, however it is extremely, extremely long. So, instead we are going to give you the link.

So, click HERE to view our artist roster!

But, because we don't want to simply give you a link for our last posting before the weekend, we wanted to tell you about our Grammy Nominated albums of the past!

Nominated for Best Choral Performance Grammy in 2003!

Composer and librettist Dominick Argento is one of America's leading composers and amont 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.


Winner of the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance!

Recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

The War Requiem was written in 1962 for the consecration of the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral and was first performed there in May 1962. Coventry Cathedral had been destroyed during the Battle of Britain in World War II. The work received immediate critical acclaim andd was hailed as a masterpiece.

A life-long pacifist, Britten wrote his Requiem as a statement against the horrors of war. In it, he intersperses the traditional Latin Requiem texts with works by Wilfred Owen, a poet who died in battle in World War I.