Classical Music

Text: Gabriel Iranyi, mit einem Beethoven-Zitat

And Let The Waves Bear Witness is written for SATB voices and set to two poems on love and empowerment.

A setting for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir of lines by the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi contemplating the theme of night. Slow and sustained, the music opens and closes in hushed tones, steadily swellin...

This is a straightforward and effective anthem set to a well-known text from the Song of Solomon. The choral texture is interspersed with several soli or semi-chorus passages which alternate between t...

This highly effective setting of the Tenebrae Responsories powerfully captures the sense of anguish and tension inherent in the text. Emotive chromatic harmonies and brief passages of strong unison wr...

These two anthems are examples of Lauridsen's style in embryo, as it were, for both were written while the composer was just twenty-seven years old. Both anthems evince the contrapuntal mastery that w...