Truly transformational art: I can pay no higher tribute to a recording than this. 2L’s Magnificat is a true garden of delight for lovers of great music, one that I will return to again and again in the future, I know. I don’t quite know how Morten Lindberg and friends have done it, though their technical notes in the booklet are, as usual, wonderfully thorough…but this recording in Double DSD is a contemplative experience of the very highest order, stunning both spirit and soul with a sweetness and pleasure that reminds me why I love the possibilities of the audio arts so passionately.
The second track, “Ecce enim,” is simply floating in the air…three-dimensionally…transforming my desktop space into a sound field like unto a church space…which is where it was recorded…an echoing realm of angels and humans singing glory, glory. I am listening to the Double DSD version of Magnificat while I am writing these notes to you. Nidaros Cathedral Girls’ Choir (Nidarosdomens jentekor)
Magnificat is one of 2L’s Best-Selling albums of the entire catalog! Along with the album Quiet Winter Night. The intensely beautiful and mostly barren Hardangervidda mountain plateau inspired Ola Gjeilo to write Tundra, while his Song of the Universal expresses unabashed optimism, exuberance, and poet Walt Whitman’s unwavering confidence in our deeper humanity – all through the prism of a big, warm, beating heart.
Musica Celestis portrays the ceaseless praising of God by angels in heaven.Īaron Jay Kernis builds his work around a simple melody which he remolds in a series of variations. God’s selection of an unknown woman living in poverty to be the mother of His son is a bottom-up view of the world if ever there was one – and Arnesen sees the Magnificat as offering support and hope for all people struggling against adversity or in need of strength.
In his setting Kim André Arnesen expresses the feelings Mary must have felt wonder, devotion, gratitude, joy, humility, hope, and compassion. If you believe that any review contained on our site infringes upon your copyright, please email us.The Magnificat is the Virgin Mary’s song of praise to God after one of the Bible’s greatest wonders: the angel Gabriel visiting her with the message that she is to be the mother of God’s son.