SKU: HL.345464

UPC: 840126919424.

The work combines the Latin text for the Responsorial Chant for Matins at Christmas with a verse of the pilgrim hymn Fair is creation which can be sung in English, German or Danish. Score: WH31169 Choral Part: WH31169B Version for mixed voices also available.

SKU: ST.EC17

ISBN 9790220213748.

The music of John Sheppard, who was about ten years younger than Tallis, dates from the uncertain times of the Reformation and the reigns of Edward VI and Mary. Perhaps his most impressive work is to be found in his cantus firmus responds, which reflect the considerable musical importance that some choral foundations attached to Matins and Vespers on special feast-days in the last decades of the Sarum rite.

SKU: BT.WH33170B

ISBN 9788759894422.

The work combines the Latin text for the Responsorial Chant for Matins at Christmas with a verse of the pilgrim hymn Fair is creation which can be sung in English, German or Danish. Score: WH31170 Parts: WH31170A. Version for upper voices also available.

SKU: HL.14017586

ISBN 9788759879412. English-Danish.

Preface I Programme Note TENEBRAE was commissioned by the Turku (Abo) Music Festival and composed for Finnish guitarist Timo Korhonen, whom I had known and admired for a long time. Timo gave a brillant premiere of TENEBRAE in Turku on August 13, 1991 and has played it several times since then. The title is Latin, and means darkness or gloom, but it also refers to the Roman Catholic matins and lauds services in Holy Week. These are held as dusk falls, and the idea is that the sixteen candles that are burning at the beginning of the service are gradually extinguished until, after sixteenprayers, the church is in darkness. The same development is carried through inTENEBRAE by musical means, so that we have not yet had to resort to acandlelit setting - although it is by no means out of the question. The piece makes extensive use of the guitar's properties for revealing quiet, intimate feelings, although naturally in a work of this scope there is contrasting material included. Jouni Kaipainen, 1993.