SATB Choir, Orchestra (SATB) SKU: HL.14005363
Composed by Geoffrey Burgon. Music Sales America. Classical. Part. Composed 2002. Chester Music #CH55437. Published by Chester Music (HL.14005363). Composed in 1981, this work is a setting of a sequence from the Mass for the Feast of St Thomas, found in the missal of the Hereford use. The text is a conventional hymn of praise but it is distinguished by a lively and attractive rhythm, and as this rhythm would have been lost in translation, I have set it in the original Latin. The work is in the form of theme and variations and is characterised by a gradual crescendo throughout. It begins very quietly with solo timpani and then the choir sing the theme in unison, unaccompanied by flutes, bells, timpani and lower strings.
