Choral (SATB a cappella)
- advanced
SKU:
HL.49045586
SSAATTBB a
cappella. Composed by
Iriana Rebhuna. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
Choral. Classical,
General Worship, Latin,
Sacred. Octavo. Composed
2016. 12 pages. Duration
4' 40''. Schott Music
#C59047. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49045586).
ISBN
9790001166270. UPC:
841886032705. 7.5x10.75
inches. Latin.
As a
singing teacher, choir
director and not least as
a passionate professional
choir singer, Irina
Rebhuna is perfectly
familiar with the
possibilities of the
human voice. And so it is
hardly surprising that
the Latvian musician born
in 1988 has devoted
herself especially to the
composition of vocal
music. Her sacred choral
work Libera me, Domine
for mixed a cappella
choir (SSAATTBB) won the
special prize for the
'best composition for 4-6
voices' at the
International Composition
Competition 'Musica Sacra
Nova' 2016. This church
music gem, in which the
eponymous Gregorian
chorale is intonated by
one of the (two) bass
baritone sections at the
beginning - over a
musical tapestry woven by
the remaining voices -
and taken up again by all
tenors at the end, is
ideal for ambitious
amateur choirs. The idea
behind this work, says
the composer, is 'the
human reflection on the
uncertain - on death, on
Judgment Day or on what
is inexplicable to us.
Such as humility,
excitement, fear,and
atonement. The chant ends
without ending, there is
no solution. Life goes on
because we ask the
following question again
and again: What will
happen next?'.