A Prayer to St John the Baptist by Cecilia McDowall for SATB and Organ.
Written for the 2018 BBC Advent broadcast sung by the choir of St John's College, Cambridge, ... mer info »
A Prayer to St John the Baptist by Cecilia McDowall for SATB and Organ.
Written for the 2018 BBC Advent broadcast sung by the choir of St John's College, Cambridge, A Prayer to St John theBaptist sets an artfully crafted text that combines Guido d'Arezzo's Ut queant laxis (itself a Hymn to John the Baptist, as well as a medieval music-teaching mnemonic) with Thomas Merton's poem on the same subject. TheOrgan's flowing quavers represent Merton's baptismal 'rivers of water', while the largely octatonic melodies conjure a tellingly mysterious atmosphere.
