1978) created this 30-minute work for choir and strings with four sections: The Spheres (Kyrie), Sunrise (Gloria), The City (Credo. Serenity Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium) Ola Gjeilo - Walton Music For a cappella mixed voices with violin or cello (parts included), this soundscape on the traditional O Magnum Mysterium text has long phrases that seem to suspend the listener in space. Called Sunrise Mass, Norwegian composer Olja Gjeilo (b. Gjeilo has composed over 70 works for solo piano and choir. Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium) Ola Gjeilo - Choral Tracks, LLC. Remember earlier this week when I posted about O Magnum Mysterium, a 16th century motet taken from Catholic MassWell, today I want to share another Mass with you but this one is from the 21st century. His music incorporates aspects from jazz to Gregorian chant to film to architecture to nature. Olas concert works are performed all over the world, and his debut recording as a pianist-composer, the lyrical crossover album Stone Rose (2L, 2007) was followed. Ola Gjeilo (pronounced Yay-lo) was born in Norway in 1978, and moved to the United States in 2001 to begin his composition studies at the Juilliard School in New York City. Gjeilo’s compositional style is often described as evocative and cinematic with lush harmonies, something he developed after gleaning inspiration from living in America. Disclaimer: I do not own the music or images. After studying at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Juilliard School, and the Royal College of Music, Gjeilo now resides as a freelance composer in New York City.įor more information about him, read here. Serenity (O magnum mysterium) is an Original song performed by Hugo Alfvn and Judith Bingham and Ola Gjeilo and Gustav Mahler and Sir Charles Villiers. He started playing the piano and composing as soon as he could reach the piano keys, and as a teen he took composition lessons from fellow Norwegian composer Wolfgang Plagge. versions of the beautiful text O Magnum Mysterium by Javier Busto, Morten Lauridsen, and Ola Gjeilo during worship on Sunday, December 9th, at 10 am. About Ola Gjeiloīorn and raised in Norway, Gjeilo’s interest in music began at a young age.
Gjeilo is one of my favorite modern choir composers, so let’s learn more about him and his music.
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His compositions whisk the listener away on a journey full of emotion and beauty. 1978) is a 21st-century pianist and composer who has changed the face of contemporary choir music.
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