Video Information

• Choir: sirventes berlin
• Piece: O magnum mysterium
• Composer:  Cyrill Schürch
• Conductor:  Stefan Schuck
• Voices:  SATB
• Sheet Music:   cschurch.net/en/compositi...  
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Sacred
• A recent performance of my "O magnum mysterium" with vocal ensemble sirventes berlin under the direction of Stefan Schuck. It is available through my website at moreA recent performance of my "O magnum mysterium" with vocal ensemble sirventes berlin under the direction of Stefan Schuck. It is available through my website at http://cschurch.net/en/compositions/choir/o-magnum-mysterium/ and will be published by Carus-Verlag in July 2016.
  
  Program Note:
  It is difficult to follow with (yet) another setting of this famous text that has inspired so many composers over the centuries. In my attempt, “O magnum mysterium” returns three times after the first statement, in a similar gesture but each time shifted to a new tonality with even more flats. Thus, the listener gets ever more pulled into this magnificient text until the piece culminates in a jubilant “Alleluia” in C-major, having come full-circle back to very first harmony we heard.
  
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