SKU: HL.48180116

Composed by Marcel Dupre, Laudate is the last of the Four Motets. Written for a mixed SATB and two organs, the lyrics are in Latin and the volume includes all the scores: female soprano and alto, male tenor and bass and the two organ scores. The piece is introduced by the two organs and the male voices are the first to start singing (tenor, followed quickly by the bass). The full SATB then sings together, sometimes alternated by the organs and the organ parts include an outstanding toccata. Laudate is an amazing way to finish this series with a triumphant and glorious celebration of God. The organ scores require some upper intermediate skills, with the knowledge of pedals and the vocal parts, quite demanding, evolve in polyphony and polyrhythm. Marcel Dupre is a French composer and virtuoso organist who won the Prix de Rome in 1914. He became famous when he played the works of Bach in its totality from memory in 1920. He later became the professor of many renowned students at the Paris Conservatoire such as Olivier Messiaen, Jean Langlais and Pierre Cochereau amongst others.

SKU: HL.49002170

ISBN 9790204001958. 8.25x11.75x0.042 inches.

SKU: HL.288456

ISBN 9781540044921. UPC: 888680911225.

SKU: MN.CH-1270

Mass in honor of St. Cyril of Jerusalem was undertaken with the purpose of utilizing a string orchestra with the soulful, plaintive sound of a solo French Horn. Both the Tenor and Bass/Baritone soli are dramatic in nature and should be executed with a fullness of sound, even in the less forte sections. The French Horn needs to ring out as a solo throughout, much like the solo instruments in Masses from the Baroque and Classical periods.