John’s text, “I fell in love with its passionate spirituality right away.” He adds that, musically, “One of the things I wanted to do in this piece was to make the choir and piano fairly equal, as if in a dialogue often the piano is accompanying the choir, but sometimes the choir is accompanying the piano (or violin).” Gjeilo says that, when he was introduced to St. The musical composition premiered in 2010. The piece below is called “Dark Night of the Soul”, a musical accompaniment to several verses from St. Whatever the reason, religious music has been a large part of his output to date: he has composed a Mass, for instance, a breath-taking “Sanctus”, and his own musical setting for the ancient hymn “Ubi Caritas”. I can’t tell from the biographical information I’ve seen whether or not he is a believer, or whether he simply finds the Christian (particularly the Catholic) tradition a particularly rich vein to mine for musical inspiration.
Another promising recent composer is the Norwegian-born Ola Gjeilo, who is very recent indeed, having been born in 1978, the same year St.
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