The story of ‘O Magnum Mysterium’, the text that inspired Morten Lauridsen’s haunting choral motet
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The story of ‘O Magnum Mysterium’, the text that inspired Morten Lauridsen’s haunting choral motet
Composers from Palestrina to Poulenc have set it to music, but perhaps the best known is the haunting motet for a cappella choir by Morten Lauridsen.
Sep 28, 2022
O magnum mysterium Performance
✨ O Magnum Mysterium ✨ In the midst of a season often filled with motion and noise, the Capital Wind Symphony invites you into a moment of stillness and wonder with our performance of O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen. This luminous work offers a hushed, reverent pause—music that seems to breathe, glow, and gently unfold in real time. Composed in 1994, O Magnum Mysterium is a setting of a centuries-old Christmas text reflecting on the mystery of the Nativity—marveling that animals were pres
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✨ O Magnum Mysterium ✨ In the midst of a season often filled with motion and noise, the Capital Wind Symphony invites you into a moment of stillness and wonder with our performance of O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen. This luminous work offers a hushed, reverent pause—music that seems to breathe, glow, and gently unfold in real time. Composed in 1994, O Magnum Mysterium is a setting of a centuries-old Christmas text reflecting on the mystery of the Nativity—marveling that animals were pres
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Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s O Magnum Mysterium by Stile Antico, recorded live at St Martin-in the-Fields, London. 🎄 The concert will be released as part of the LIVE From London Christmas online festival on December 13, 2026.❄️ | Gramophone
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