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Music Text

Liturgical (E)

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Publisher

Boosey & Hawkes

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

Availability

World Premiere
23/06/2008
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
St Mary's Music School
Repertoire Note

Choral level of difficulty: Level 2 (5 greatest)

Another spiritual journey here but always with something fresh to say. A mostly very straightforward piece with almost Lotti Crucifixus-like suspensions in its early and latter phrases. The string parts are mostly sustained or pizzicato and there is a quietly luminous moment for the strings at ‘a light has shone’ which is where the trumpet makes its first appearance. The middle section (purely set to the letter ‘O’) is marginally more challenging mostly because of the slightly more complex rhythm. The final section sees a return of the opening choral material accompanied differently. A successful performance needs a balanced group of upper voices, a confident trumpeter and a fair number of strings as the music divides at one point into 14 parts.

Repertoire note by Paul Spicer

Subjects
Recommended Recording
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Netherlands Radio Choir/
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic/James MacMillan
Challenge Classics CC72554

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