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Missa Brevis (2023)
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Commissioned by The Friends of the Music of St Giles' Cathedral Edinburgh for the Choir of St Giles' Cathedral and first performed on 28 October 2023 conducted by Michael Harris. The Friends of the Music of St Giles' Cathedral acknowledge support from the National Lottery through Creative Scotland, and The Church Hymnary Trust. The Friends of the Music also gratefully acknowledge the support of the following individual donors to the St Giles’ 900 Choirbook: Fiona Graham, David W.S Todd, Rory Wilson, Rosalind Wilson.
Programme Note
My Missa Brevis was written for the Choir of St Giles Cathedral and Michael Harris Saint Giles Cathedral’s 900th anniversary. As someone who grew up singing in the choir of Old Saint Paul’s, not far from Saint Giles, choral music has always resonated deeply for me. The Kyrie explores pairs of voices together with bursts of organ solos. The Gloria is quick and lively and the Sanctus is more stately and subdued until it’s Hosanna. In the Benedictus, grave falling sequences are alternated with joyful solo voices and organ. The Agnus Dei builds imitative entries in the voices before releasing organ momentum alongside a more rhythmic miserere in the voices.
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