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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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