(Each week we look at a piece of useful repertoire from the ChoralNet Community Composition Showcase. A variety of voicings and levels of difficulty will be presented. Enjoy!)
Level: College or higher
Uses: Lenten Service or Concert, Masterworks Concert
Program Themes: Songs of Pain and Suffering, Supplication
This Piece Would Program Well With: Lacrimosa from Requiem by W.A.Mozart available from JWPepper or Sheet Music Plus.
Out of the depths this piece cries out to Thee O Lord! The opening soprano solo tears at the heavens with pain and supplication. Goose bumps will be crawling across the collective skin of your audience.
With altos down to a low Eb and the soprano soloist up to high C this requires some well-trained resources.
This work is offered free of charge as are many works in the Composition Showcase
Agnus Dei and the De Profundis Mass it is excerpted from are both available from the composer's website: http://martenjansson.se/swe/80/missa-de-profundis
(Original publication: January 13, 2013)
Mårten Jansson says