Following on from the canticle and anthem ‘World Cups’, Twitter has recently been enlivened by a similar venture to find the setting of the best setting of the word Amen. I followed this from the start and indeed nominated a couple of my favourites. The zippy one from Monteverdi’s setting of Lauda Jerusalem<\/i> wasn’t used, and the more subtle charms of the third Amen from Philip Moore’s second setting of the Responses didn’t make it past the qualifying rounds, so I was left with deciding between other people’s choices.<\/p>\n
I think the Amen from Finzi’s Lo the Full Final Sacrifice<\/i> was a worthy winner (I voted for it, anyway) and made up for the poor showing of the whole in the World Cup of Anthems. But I wouldn’t have been sorry if the other finalist. Brahms’ Geistliches Lied<\/i>, had won. What was noticeable was the strong showing of Renaissance music in this competition. Its last representative, Parsons’ Ave Maria<\/i> made it to the semi-finals along with the Amen from Messiah<\/i> (whose MS is reproduced on a poster which hangs in our music room).<\/p>\n
I hope at some time we might get the Advent\/Christmas\/Epiphany anthem competition, as anthems for those seasons were excluded from the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Following on from the canticle and anthem ‘World Cups’, Twitter has recently been enlivened by a similar venture to find the setting of the best setting of the word Amen. I followed this from the start and indeed nominated a … Continue reading