Annunciation
(2005)
A carol for Advent
Text: John Donne
unaccompanied SSATB choir
duration: 4'
Gemini Publications
Commissioned by Janet Lince for Choros
First performance 4 December 2005
Choros/Janet Lince
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Deddington, Oxford
| Annunciation
SSATB
a carol for Advent
Annunciation was commissioned by Choros and Janet Lince. The first performance was given on 4 December 2005 at St Peter and St Paul Church, Deddington, North Oxfordshire by Choros, conducted by Janet Lince.
Annunciation
(from Holy Sonnets)
Salvation to all that will is nigh,
That All, which always is All every where,
Which cannot sinne, and yet all sinnes must beare,
Which cannot die, yet cannot chuse but die,
Loe, faithfull Virgin, yields himselfe to lye
In prison, in thy wombe; and though he there
Can take no sinne, nor thou give, yet he will weare
Taken from thence, flesh, which deaths force may trie.
Ere by the spheares time was created, thou
Wast in his minde, who is thy Sonne, and Brother,
Whom thou conceiv'st, conceiv'd thou art now
Thy Makers makers, and thy Fathers mother,
Thou hast light in darke; and shutst in little roome,
Immensity cloysterd in thy deare wombe
John Donne |