Lux Aeterna part 1, Morten Lauridsen
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The texts are drawn from sacred Latin sources, each containing references to Light. The piece opens and closes with the beginning and ending of the Requiem Mass, with the three central movements drawn, respectively, from the Te Deum (including a line from the Beatus Vir), O Nata Lux and Veni, Sancte Spiritus.
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@jgg380 Yeah, it's hard to sing! But have you listened to the song? The conflicting parts and Lauridsen's style combined with the orchestra make the whole piece hauntingly beautiful! The transition from In Te, Domine Speravi to O Nata Lux is possibly the most powerful moment in any musical piece I've ever heard. The piece reflects Lauridsen's emotional conflicts during its composition in a way I've yet to hear from anybody else.
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@MrPiano90 How can you say that?! Lux Aeterna is horrifyingly dull. There's no fugal sections whatsoever, and Lauridsen in his immense wisdom gives the tenors a hopelessly unsingable low F sharp and then gives the altos and basses both top Gs. It is far from epic, and is horrible to sing.
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beautiful!
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Lauridsen is a genius, what an incredible gift from God. How amazingly beautiful. Soul moving! 3 minutes into the song, I broke out in tears.
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Holy cow!
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wow
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nice wall street j ,,,1/ 20 article, but the guy that took his photo, probably had some message that morten should come out of his corner at his home, or something like strimples statement
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@lynxoid84 That is a very good way to describe it.
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@johndavidryan I shake in glee each time I hear that part!
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The musicologist and conductor Nick Strimple, in discussing Lauridsen's sacred music, described him as "the only American composer in history who can be called a mystic, whose probing, serene work contains an elusive and indefinable ingredient which leaves the impression that all the questions have been answered..."
MrPoog 1 year ago 55
Lauridsen... Good grief I love his music...
BenjaminGessel 1 year ago 6