Hosanna For Mixed Choir And Organ, Study Score (LUKASZEWSKI PAWEL)

POD-Upheld By Stillness is a work for Unaccompanied SSSAATTBB Choir by composer Owain Park. A setting of the poem 'The World' by Kathleen Raine the piece lasts around 6 and a half minutes. Park describes the work as 'A reflection on the Sanctus and Benedictus from the Mass for five voices by William Byrd ' ...Some echoes of Byrd's music are incorporated in the piece including two sections marked 'quasi Hosanna' but the composer focuses mainly on creating various effective bi-tonal chord clashes to generate an appropriate atmosphere for the cosmic theme of the poem complete with star-like 'flickering'. - Geoffrey Webber Choir& Organ Magazine   

A grand Palm Sunday anthem this majestic call to praise honors Jesus the King as He enters the city with a procession of palms. Add the congregation to join in the Hosanna! along with the tasteful complement of the organ brassquintet and percussion to fill the sanctuary with regal celebration!

At the age of 22 Weelkes was appointed organist at Winchester College where he remained for two or three years. He obtained his B. Mus. Degree from New College Oxford in 1602 and moved to Chichcester to take up the position of organist and informator choristarum (instructor of the choristers) at the Cathedral a post he held until his death. Thomas Weelkes is best known for his vocal music especially his madrigals and church music. He wrote more Anglican services than any other major composer of the time mostly for evensong. Many of his anthems are verse anthems which would have suited the small forces he was writing for at Chichester Cathedral.