"Magnificat" from King's College Service by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Described as "melodious, uplifting and accessible" (by Ben Parry, who commissioned the work for King's Voices in Cambridge) Joanna Forbes L'Estrange's canticles are fast becoming a favourite of church and cathedral choirs, both in the UK and in the USA.
Joanna Forbes L'Estrange strongly believes that musical settings of liturgical texts should, above all, paint the words in such a way that they have greater impact and meaning for the congregation than if they had merely been spoken. Having been a member of her local church choir from the age of 7 until 18, Joanna enjoys the challenge of composing church music which, while not off-puttingly difficult for a humble parish church choir to enjoy singing, is sufficiently interesting to appeal to more accomplished choirs.
One review of her setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis described the music as "Satisfying in the best sense of the word."
Published by the RSCM
Persual score and demo recording here: www.joannaforbe...
This performance was given by the choir of
Trinity Cathedral, South Carolina, USA
Conductor: Dr Jared Johnson
Organist: William Douglas
September 2020
Lovely. I hope in a post Covid world this enters the standard repertoire
I heard it recently at Dundee cathedral
I'm happy to say that it has! Thank you for your comment :-)
This is the most magical piece -- my choir has copies of it, and the harmonies give me shivers every time. I cannot express to you how deeply I love listening to this. Thank you for your incredible work.
Well we're doing our bit at St Marys Newark (UK) to get it in the repetoire. We've sung it twice now, most recently Sunday 6th March. I like it and think its a good piece. We do the responses too which I also really enjoy.
Lovely setting!
Beautiful
Beautiful setting
Beautifully sung!
It's a lovely setting - I'm curious: why did you omit the line "For He that is mighty hath magnified me, and holy is His name" ?
That was a mistake, fixed in a future edition that I sang from earlier this year
It was an error and entirely my fault! I corrected it as soon as humanly possible and the correct version has just been recorded for SIGNUM by London Voices, directed by Ben Parry.
@@joannaforbeslestrange71 good to know! Is the corrected version available from the same publisher? We have sung this a number of times and it's become a staple in our Evensong repertoire!