Description
O Magnum Mysterium featuring the Westminster Choir, Joseph Flummerfelt, conductor. Originally released by Chesky Records. Recording engineer Bob Katz captured the performance in St. Mary's The Virgin Cathedral, New York City, July 30th-August 1st 1992 using a stereo AKG C-24 tube microphone "…placed on a high boom 30 feet in the air and about 40 feet out in front of the choir," according to David Chesky's jacket notes.
The pieces here range in length from a 1:42 "O Magnum" composed in 1960 by Peter Maxwell Davies, to Brahms' 5:07 "Geistliches Lied" composed in 1856, listed here as "Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren" (Do not be sorrowful or regretful), which is the text written by Paul Flemming in the 1600s. In between are pieces by Mozart, Bruckner, Poulenc, William Byrd and others; music inspired by Christian Eucharistic and celebratory texts.
