Currently singing this in my school choir!!! It sounds beautiful!!! However, as a tenor who has to sing the bass part for balance purposes, those bottom E’s are not nice to sing!!
But that's not the point, the point is that something exists outside of time and space, called God and yes there is suffering and death, but if you look into it, this is explained as just a part of it all
I was at a art camp last week and there was a one day workshop where they sang this and prepared it for performance. In the evening, we, the audience, were placed in a room on the floor with the choir in a circle around us singing this song. Incredible experience!
On the one hand, this piece gives me goosebumps and brings tears to my eyes. On the other hand, I admire how mathematically correct some parts are, how notes of a bar mirrors and creates a symmetry in the following bar.
It's not a song. But if this piece makes you feel blessed for your faith that's good. I can only say that i'm atheist and i thing it's a wonderful piece of music.
@@noahmoment Haha if you look at some Renaissance music in the 16th century, like Gesualdo and Jacob Handl, its just as dissonant as 20th century modernist music.
