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 ...
The music on the radio certainly hit the spot. Listening in Dublin, Valerie Kenny texted the show. "Standing here transported by that absolutely heart-achingly beautiful choral piece!" she wrote. It ...
In December 1994, the Los Angeles Master Chorale presented the world premiere of a brief setting of the Latin chant “O Magnum Mysterium” by a little-known 51-year-old USC-based composer from the ...