Songs from past Sing to the Lord tours.
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The
following songs are from the 2007 tour.
Juz Sie
Zmierzcha (Now Rest Beneath Night's Shadow) 2:13min
I first heard this short moving motet performed in 1977 by the
Technical University Choir of Stetin, Poland.
Since we were
performing in Krakow this year, it was natural to add it to the
repertoire.
The author of the lyric is unknown and the precise
dates of the composer, Waclaw z Szamotul, uncertain
Behold,
you are Beautiful My Love 3:16min
Originally written in 2004
to celebrate the wedding of Gordon and Linda Turner (STTL 2006)
I
arranged the piece for 4 voices specifically for this tour. The text
was adapted from the Song of Solomon.
The members of the choir
were quite generous in rehearsing it for its premiere performance.
Calgarian Dianne Trew, one of the participants in the first STTL,
did the solo work.
Hor
mein Bitten (Hear My Prayer) 3:43 min
Felix Mendelssohn's best
known short choral work. A setting of Psalm 55, many of the
choristers have done the work in English translation.
However,
nothing but the original German would do when one of our performance
venues was the Lutheran Annenkirche in Dresden.
Soloist Eun-Hee
Song, setting up the choral entries, sang the solo passages seemingly
effortlessly.
Kyrie
- Spatzenmesse K220 (Sparrow Mass) 1:38min
One of several
short liturgical masses Mozart wrote in the service of the Archbishop
of Salzburg,
the mass gets its name from the distinctive
bird-like sounds at the beginning of the Sanctus.
It is
especially gratifying that on Sing to the Lord Tours we are able to
perform Masses in liturgical settings.
Our four soloists, Soprano
- Susan Kiddie, Contralto - Gail Ingelson, Tenor - Jorge Aviles, and
Bass - Doug Hammond handled the vocal demands beautifully.
The following songs are from the 2006 tour.
Jubilate Deo -
Vit Kment (1929) 2:57min
Some conductors do methodical
searches looking for repertoire. I prefer serendipity.
I found a
used copy of this work during one of my frequent visits to one of two
favourite music stores in Prague.
An Internet search yielded no
information about the composer; nevertheless, the composition is
strong and deserves to be heard.
Ave Verum
Corpus - W. A. Mozart (1791) 3:08 min
Composed 6 months before
his death, Ave Verum Corpus is without doubt the best known of
Mozart’s short sacred works.
The choir did some of its best
singing in this marvelous performance.
Sancta Maria,
Mater Dei - W. A. Mozart (1977) 3:12 min
Also composed in
Salzburg, this Motet is one of Mozart’s Masonic compositions.
At least one critic has compared it favourably to the Ave Verum
Corpus, although it is a much earlier work.
I found the music in
a second hand music store in Leipzig last summer.
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Sep 29/07