Format : Vocal Score
This setting of Videntes Stellam aims to explore the extremes of emotion surrounding the revelation of Christ. The piece begins by depicting the vision of the star and the journey of the Kings utilising a bright harmonic language in the Organ and emphatic cascading outbursts of praise from the Choir periodically interrupted by more reflective iterations of the text. Following a final declaration of exaltation and joy the piece concludes with a peaceful and reverential picture of the giving of gifts to the infant Jesus fading away as the Organ takes up the original theme under the final statement of '… myrrham' from the Choir.Suitable forevensongs or concerts throughout the whole of the Advent Christmas and Epiphany seasons. Videntes Stellam was the 2013 winner of the New Music for St Paul's Cathedral Composition Competition.
SKU: ST.CN3P
ISBN 9790220224607.
Philip Moore draws on a lifetime's experience of music for Anglican worship to present Bishop Ken's classic evening hymn in darker, more subjective hues than those of Tallis's Canon, to which it is usually sung congregationally. In particular, a penitential note of strained serenity is struck in this nocturnal plea for repose of body and soul. The voices move quietly in comfortable thirds and sixths to the accompaniment of a questioning five-note figure, a phrase which is rarely absent from the organ part and which subtly questions their prayer for peace in its edgy harmonic and metric ambiguity.
