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Track(s) taken from KGS0015

O sacrum convivium

composer
1937
author of text
Antiphon for Second Vespers at Corpus Christi

King's College Choir Cambridge, Sir Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
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Recording details: May 2014
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Produced by Benjamin Sheen
Engineered by Benjamin Sheen
Release date: July 2016
Total duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)
The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)
Eton College Chapel Choir, Ralph Allwood (conductor)

Reviews

'Aficionados of often challenging Anglican Church music should not hesitate' (Classic FM)» More
The unaccompanied motet O sacrum convivium is an early work, revelling in a static chromaticism, which lends the work a fervently devotional quality. Though much of Messiaen’s music is overtly Christian in content, this is his only liturgical motet; the composer, with characteristic eccentricity, believed that plainsong was the perfect, and unsurpassable, music with which the liturgy should be adorned.

from notes by Matthew O'Donovan © 2010

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