O Sacrum Convivium (2012)
SATB
Duration:
5′
First performance:
3 November 2013
King’s College Chapel Choir, David Smith, King’s College, Aberdeen, UK
Score
Programme note
O Sacrum Convivium is a setting of the famous text of St Thomas Aquinas expressing the profound mysteries of the Eucharistic miracle. It is designed as a companion piece to my previous setting of Aquinas, O Salutaris Hostia (2008) and treads similar ground both aesthetically and harmonically. Akin to many settings of this text, the general tone is one of serenity and repose but my setting has more ‘grit’ then others suggesting the ‘memory of his Passion’ to be more disturbing than others may suggest.
PAC