This album of unaccompanied choral music by the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City looks like a sampler from the outside, but the notes reveal a fairly specific program, which can be interpreted either as "Christ's persecution and suffering intermingled with his concession to God's will with his redeeming final transformation into pure Love" or, "on a humanistic plane...despair and lamenting giving way to a faint-but-growing hope of salvation, and arrival at a new destination, with an evolved perspective." The ...
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This album of unaccompanied choral music by the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City looks like a sampler from the outside, but the notes reveal a fairly specific program, which can be interpreted either as "Christ's persecution and suffering intermingled with his concession to God's will with his redeeming final transformation into pure Love" or, "on a humanistic plane...despair and lamenting giving way to a faint-but-growing hope of salvation, and arrival at a new destination, with an evolved perspective." The theological perspectives of some of the pieces are discussed in some detail, while others are only incidentally connected to the main narrative: Pérotin's Sederunt principes four-part organum is included only because it was intended for St. Stephen's Day, St. Stephen having more directly to do with the interpretation attached to the previous piece. Those for whom choral music serves as an adjunct to actual private worship may find this program useful; it's certainly unusual for a disc...
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