My soul is exceeding sorrowful

ISBN-13: 9780193505216 / Angielski / Other / 2003 / 8 str.

Opis

Suitable for SATB unaccompanied, this setting of the Tenebrae Responsories captures the sense of anguish and tension inherent in the text. Emotive chromatic harmonies and brief passages of strong unison writing combine to create a poignantly expressive Lenten anthem.

Recenzje

This four-part work (with a bit of splitting in the bass and soprano) is marked to be sung 'with intensity' and would provide a most moving anthem for a Passiontide service. The part writing is darkly chromatic, but moves for the most part by step, and the two dramatic highpoints of the piece are at the same time beautiful and affecting without being overstated. At only three minutes long this is quite a gem and eminently learnable.

O autorze

Eleanor Daley was born in 1955 in Ontario, Canada. A prolific composer with a remarkable gift for melody, she has well over eighty published choral compositions and is commissioned extensively throughout North America. Her titles have been widely performed, recorded and broadcast throughout North America, the UK, Europe, South Africa, and the Far East. As a freelance accompanist and choral director she works with the Toronto Children's Chorus, the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Amadeus Choirs, and the Bach Children's Chorus.