SKU: PL.0406

Raymond Weidner has created an atmospheric and beautiful work for high voices. This Lenten text is set to close harmony and a harp part of gracious beauty. Most of the work is quiet and inward, only bursting into a wider range at key moments in the text. The final alleluias are stirring in their sweep and make a memorable impression on the listener. The work closes in the same quiet feeling in which it began. O Sacrum Convivium would make a wonderful work for both accomplished treble choirs and women's choirs.

This creates it effects by the delicate accompaniment of the harp (or piano) and the translucent SSA voices. It is a contemplative work with three real vocal lines throughout and a beautiful climax. - David Halls Salisbury Cathedral March 2004.

SKU: ST.CN7P

ISBN 9790220224645.

A tour de force of choral energy and expertise in rhythmic precision, this is aerial music, fleet and vibrant as voices proclaim Martin Luther's vision of universal peace above a torrent of cascading organ scales. The brightness of the Lydian mode matches this joyful proclamation, intoned chant-like in bold, clear intervals recalling the sounds both of medieval music and its refraction through the ears of modern masters like Stravinsky and Tavener. Cunningly constructed too, on a four-bar ostinato, the music reverses its opening scale figure for a quieter section before building again to an extrovert ending that repeats the chant against new organ figures in a clinching 'alleluia'.