[Pre Order] Eric Whitacre - Eternity in an Hour - LP

Release Date: November 20, 2026

A 60-minute work inspired by William Blake's Auguries of Innocence, uniting electronics, choir, strings and piano. 2-LP set.

Eric Whitacre presents Eternity in an Hour, a 60-minute work inspired by William Blake's poem Auguries of Innocence. Eric conducts the work, which combines his first love of electronica and synthesizers with his choir, the Eric Whitacre Singers, strings and piano. The album explores the connection between the poem's opening line, "To see a world in a grain of sand," and granular synthesis; Eric even "grainified" the poetry, taking slivers of each line for each movement, where only those words are sung. A self-described long-time "synth nerd," Eric uses the raw, mystical sound of the Lyra-8 synthesizer alongside a Tascam 424 tape recorder, while playing all the piano parts on his grandmother's 125-year-old piano, the sound of his childhood.

Features

• 2-LP set
• Performed by the Eric Whitacre Singers, strings and piano, conducted by Eric Whitacre
• Label: Decca

Track Listing

1. To See a World
2. In a Grain of Sand
3. And a Heaven
4. In a Wild Flower
5. Hold Infinity
6. In the Palm of Your Hand
7. And Eternity
8. In an Hour

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