Composed by
Peter Relph. Evoking
Sound. Music Education.
20 pages. GIA
Publications #9610.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-9610).
UPC: 785147961000.
Latin. Text Source: Attr.
Ambrose of Milan,
340–397. Text by
Ambrose of
Milan.
Composer's
Notes When I met Kelsey
Rose in Oxford in St.
Stephen’s House chapel
over the summer of 2017,
we had both just attended
a very moving candlelit
concert by Westminster
Williamson Voices,
featuring my setting of
“Tenebrae lumini.” I
was delighted to be asked
to write a piece for
compline in Princeton
University Chapel,
celebrating the 150th
anniversary of the
Anglican/Episcopal
chaplaincy at Princeton
University. “Aurora”
is the result of that
meeting. Composing by
commission often throws
up some interesting
challenges. The piece had
to fit both as an
accompanying piece to the
plainchant of compline,
whilst simultaneously
being a celebratory
anthem. I was instantly
drawn back to the poetry
and hymns of St. Ambrose
of Milan, particularly
“Aurora iam spargit
polum.” Fragments of
chant (both real and
imagined) are used to
create the powerful
imagery of the descending
golden light of dawn. The
piece reaches its climax
with the plea for the
despair of night to
“vanish,” which it
then does, leaving the
sopranos alone on a high
G.
Choral (SSATB) SKU: HL.50605353 Mixed Voices SSATB. Composed by D&...(+)
Choral (SSATB)
SKU:
HL.50605353
Mixed
Voices SSATB.
Composed by Dá and
niel Dobos. EMB.
Classical, General
Worship, Sacred.
Softcover. 24 pages.
Editio Musica Budapest
#Z15140. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(HL.50605353).
ISBN
9781705180310. UPC:
196288106210.
Dáni
el Dobos (* 1994) studied
with Gyula Fekete and
Máté Bella at the
Department of Composition
of the Liszt Ferenc
Academy of Music. In his
violin concerto Sylvanus,
he uses the technical
repertoire of
Transylvanian folk
violinists. His piano
piece, Drumul dracului,
which won the first prize
in 2018 at the Béla
Bartók World
Competition, also focuses
on a new interpretation
of Transylvanian folk
music roots. In Callis
stellarum, Dobos set one
of the apocalyptic
visions by the prophet
Isaiah: “For the stars
of heaven and the
constellations thereof
shall not give their
light: the sun shall be
darkened in his going
forth, and the moon shall
not cause her light to
shine.” At the end of
the composition, the
Hungarian folk song
“Csillagok,
csillagok” (Stars and
Stars) is heard as a kind
of hopeful association.
Commissioned by the
municipality of Debrecen,
this piece won the first
prize in the youth mixed
choir category of the
HangKELTO Youth
Composition Competition
held in 2021.