Composers as varied as Palestrina, Poulenc and Maxwell Davies have set it to music, but perhaps the best known is the haunting setting for unaccompanied choir by Morten Lauridsen, the American ...

And nowhere is this more obvious than in the glorious music of the American composer Morten Lauridsen. Although composed in 1994, O Magnum Mysterium took a good few years before garnering such ...

Tom Manoff reviews O Magnum Mysterium, a collection of Christmas music from the Robert Shaw Festival Singers and the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers. Robert Shaw is considered one of the greatest ...

takes his choir downtown to the Metropolitan Museum’s Medieval Sculpture Hall, worth a trip all by itself. The program, “O Magnum Mysterium,” features settings of that ancient text by ...

WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon hosts this unique classical music podcast which introduces a featured classical recording in each episode.

› What: “Northern Lights” by Chattanooga Bach Choir.› When: 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20.› Where: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 305 W. Seventh St ...

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“The most recent setting was composed in 2012 by Norwegian Ola Gjeilo, whose music made a deep impression on many of the audience who heard it at the Chamber Choir’s previous concert in May. “His ...