Word: pueri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting for chorus of the 134th psalm by Bach's contemporary, Sweelink. The 18th century is represented by a beautiful chorus from Gluck's "Orpheus." The two modern choral works to be sung are unusual arrangements. "Mal" Holmes has turned the organ accompaniment of Mendelssohn's motet "Laudati Pueri" into a rich orchestral background, while the other modern piece, the "Valse Nobles" of Schubert, was an arranger's field day. First written by Schubert as a set of piano waltzes it was later fitted out with an original obligato for female voices by a brilliant and unpronounceable Pole, Mandyczewski...