Episode One: Where Longing Rests
from The Choral Canon Hosted by Ross S. Bish
What does it mean to long for something so deeply that it moves you to tears? In Episode One of The Choral Canon — Where Longing Rests — host Ross S. Bish, MM, CAGS explores two masterworks of the late Renaissance that ask exactly that question. Palestrina's Sicut Cervus reaches toward God with aching, flowing polyphony. Monteverdi's Ecco Mormorar L'onde reaches toward the beauty of the natural world at dawn. Two composers. Two kinds of longing. One choral tradition that holds them both. Sicut Cervus recording is from the Pennsylvania Collegiate Choral Association festival 2010 under the direction of Paul Salamunovich. Ecco Mormorar L’onde recording is from the Public Domain Archives.
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