WTJU Dec 18th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
For the past four years, the #ClassicsaDay team has adopted Classical Christmas as its theme for December. And why not? We have a rich body of music related to the season dating back to the Middle Ages. A good deal of it is religious, but not all many works are simply inspired by the time of year.
As always, I tried to select music that I hadn’t shared before while avoiding the obvious (like Vivaldi’s “Winter”). Here are my posts for the third week of #ClassicalChristmas
12/14/20 Giovanni Gabrieli – O Magnum Mysterium
Gabrieli used the space at St. Mark’s like an instrument. His compositions for multiple choirs took into account the echos and delays of the sound, and how it could enhance the music. This work features two choirs of unequal size, adding dynamics to the mix.