Day 18: We continue with Thoresen settings. As in the visionary work (also based on Baha’u’llah texts), “From the Sweet-Scented Streams of Eternity,” Thoresen experiments with choral groupings, often having the chorus form a circle and sing inward, accentuating harmonic effects. Today, “For humanity.”
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Free Nordic Voices Track Day 17 – Thoresen: “Refresh and loosen my spirit”
Day 17: Thoresen’s Opus 19 collection was variously written from 1979 to 1996. Many of the texts are from the writings of the chief author and mystic of the Bahai faith, Baha’u’llah. Today we hear “Refresh and loosen my spirit.”
Read More…Free Nordic Voices Track Day 16 – Lasse Thoresen: “Let me nourish your beauty”
Day 16: And now we shift into something completely different. Allow me to introduce you to one of the current crop of wonderful contemporary choral composers, someone you may not know: Lasse Thoresen (b. 1949) is a professor of composition at the Norwegian State Academy of Music where he has taught composition, electro-acoustic music, and […]
Read More…Free Nordic Voices Track Day 15 – Victoria: Song of Songs
Day 15: This beautiful setting from the Song of Songs is part of the 1576 collection for the Virgin Mary. Apparently (according to Dr. Aguirre) in the manuscript where you have the line Nigra sum sed formosa (“I am black but comely”), Victoria used an extra black notation.
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