Composer:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (ISBN 978-0-19-335553-1)
Year Written:
2004
Year Published:
2006
Commissioned/Written for
From score: "Commissioned by Jeremy Backhouse and the Vasari Singers for their 25th Anniversary with funds provided by the Leche Trust"
Text:
Length:
00:07:00
Scoring: Voices:
SSAATTBB
Difficulty:
3
Related Media:
From score: "First performed by the Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse, at St John’s, Smith Square, London on 15 May 2005. Now I have known, O Lord is recorded by the Vasari Singers, directed by Jeremy Backhouse, on Signum SIGCD059."
The text by 10th-century Sufi mystic Al-Junaid is translated by A. J. Arberry (1905-1969).
This is an expansive work with quite high sustained tessituras for an extended climactic passage. SATB solos are featured briefly amongst a "wash" of sound from the choir.