Product Description
Neo-Baroque, medium-sized, large scale composition for 4 vocal soloists, mixed chorus in 4 to 8 parts, and full orchestra with organ, setting the traditional canticle text, mostly with church modes and alternating polyphonic intricacies with solemn, intense or profound moments.
It would work both for worship and in concert, as it includes powerful outbursts, elaborate counterpoint, and also soft and humble moments, while avoiding any harsh excesses of modernism.
Total duration: 46 min. Performing Rights Organization: SOCAN. The audio sample is the 5th movement.
The first two choruses, in 4 parts, are modelled after the general outline of the Baroque French overture: a solemn introduction followed by an elaborate fugue.
The 3rd movement is a solemn arioso for bass, followed by a grand chorus in 4 and 5 parts.
The 4th movement is an arioso for tenor, followed by a complex chorus in 5 parts.
The 5th movement is a suite of two ariosos for alto and soprano, followed by a grand, but brief chorus in 6 parts, and then by a mysterious instrumental evocation of the Last Judgment.
The 6th movement is a vocal quartet a cappella, based on a well-known Orthodox hymn and alternated with a refrain for chorus in 7 parts and organ, then followed by a grand choral complex ended in humble supplication.
The final, 7th movement is a grand motet for double chorus and orchestra, with four themes more and more intricately combined, up to the majestic coda treated in quadruple counterpoint.
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