Our last Rorate Caeli brings us into the 20th century, via the early Middle Ages. This setting is by Judith Weir, and was written in 1983. She uses the melody from the Gregorian chant as her base, then adds in…
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Advent Calendar Day 4: Rorate Caeli – Rheinberger
Our survey of Rorate Caeli settings now enters the swoonily romantic (not to say sentimental) territory of the 19th century, with this pensive and occasionally dramatic setting by Josef Rheinberger. Rheinberger was born in Liechtenstein and spent most of his…
Advent Calendar Day 3: Rorate Caeli – Handl
Another Renaissance Rorate Caeli, but the Renaissance in Eastern Europe was clearly a different beast to the Renaissance in Spain! Jacob Handl (also known as Jacobus Gallus and Jacobus Handelius) was born in Montenegro in 1550, making him about 20…
Advent Calendar Day 2: Rorate Caeli – Guerrero
While I was looking for just the right Rorate Coeli/Caeli to share with you yesterday, I fell down a very deep internet rabbit hole where it turns out that pretty much every composer and his cat has written a setting…
Advent Calendar Day 1: Rorate Caeli – Zebrowski
The classic text for Advent 1 is Rorate Coeli Desuper – Let the heavens open and rain down righteousness. The oldest setting for this is this Gregorian chant, which still gets sung today (literally today, actually – I’ll be singing…
Advent Calendar Day 22 – Rorate Coeli
And here we are on the fourth Sunday of Advent, which, according to all the sources I’ve found, means that it is time for a bit of Rorate Coeli. This is a very lovely and very old text, which started…