Songs from past Sing to the Lord tours.

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The following songs are from the 2014 tour.

Laudate Pueri 1:51min
W. A. Mozart (1756-1791 from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore. K.339).
Written in 1780 for specific use in Salzburg Cathedral. This frugal treatment of Psalm 113 was a challenge for the choir.
In our final concert everything came together for our best performance of this piece.

 Ave Regina 1:08min
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1884).
This is the 4th of "Funf Hymnen, Op. 140". I admit a growing fascination with the works of Rheinberger and
found myself programming many in the past 3 years.
The choir did a particularly good job on this piece.

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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Dec 06/14