Format : Octavo
SKU: GI.G-CD-1028
UPC: 785147002826.
Once again the magic of Paul Tate’s ability to blend contemporary Christian songs with chant tunes and traditional hymn tunes is on display in his latest volume of worship music for piano. Two new original interludes round out this collection, making a satisfying edition for pianists everywhere as they lift the level of worship at the keyboard. CONTENTS: Song of the Lord’s Command with Ubi caritas • Let All Things Now Living • Eternal Life Suite No. 2 • Take and Eat • Interlude No. 13 • Covenant Hymn with Wherever You Go • Come and Follow Me with Take Up Your Cross • Canticle of the Turning • Where Your Treasure Is • I Lift My Soul to You • Interlude No. 14 • Come to Us, Emmanuel with Comfort, My People • Epiphany Suite with In the Bleak Midwinter, We Three Kings, and The First Noel • Angels We Have Heard on High with He Is Born.
SKU: BT.PMC3599
Each of the five connected movements in this choral cycle contains references to 'Light,' assembled from various sacred Latin texts. I composed Lux Aeterna in response to my mother's final illness and found great personal comfortand solace in setting to music these timeless and wondrous words about Light, a universal symbol of illumination at all levels - spiritual, artistic and intellectual. The work opens and closes with the beginning and ending of theRequiem Mass, with the central three movements drawn respectively from the Te Deum, O Nata Lux and Veni, Sancte Spiritus. The opening Introitus introduces several themes that recur later in the work and includes an extended canonon et lux perpetua. In Te, Domine, Speravi contains, among other musical elements, the cantus firmus Herzliebster Jesu (from the Nuremburg Songbook, 1677) and a lengthy inverted canon on fiat misericordia. O Nata Lux and Veni,Sancte Spiritus are paired songs, the former an a cappella motet at the center of the work and the latter a spirited, jubilant canticle. A quiet setting of the Agnus Dei precedes the final Lux Aeterna, which reprises the openingsection of the Introitus and concludes with a joyful celebratory Alleluia. --Morten Lauridsen.
SKU: BT.PMC3367
