New Choral Recording

The First Readings Project choral ensemble under the direction of J. David Moore recently recorded a choral work entitled Caritas (“Love”). Composed in 2007 and revised in early 2014, this piece for unaccompanied SATB choir is based on the text from Hildegard of Bingen’s Antiphon of the Holy Spirit taken from “Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum.”

First performance by First Readings Project Ensemble, May 2014 J. David Moore, director Hennepin United Methodist Church, Minneapolis, MN

Caritas

Caritas habundat in omnia, de imis excellentissima super sidera atque amantissima in omnia, quia summo regi osculum pacis dedit.

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Love abounds in all, most exalted from the depths above the stars and most loving in all, for she has given the high king the kiss of peace.