Description
As recorded by VOCES8 on their 2019 album, Enchanted Isle, this soaring setting of Hafiz-inspired poetry by Daniel Ladinsky speaks of the matchless beauty of unconditional love. For a cappella choir with optional solo cello.
(This is an a cappella arrangement of movement III of LUX: The Dawn From On High, originally scored for chorus with chamber ensemble, small orchestra, or full orchestra).
Related product: Full score (with cello) and cello part (DF1005A) Printed Product or Digital Download
Also available for SSAA a cappella choir with optional cello.
TEXT:
Even
After
All this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe
Me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the
Whole
Sky.
-Daniel Ladinsky, from "The Gift", copyright 1999; used by permission.)
- Instrumentation:
- With Violin
- A Cappella:
- A Cappella
- Voicing:
- SATB
- Instrumentation:
- With Strings
- Digital / Print:
- Product Type:
- Secular