“I stumbled across this little piece by Nadia Boulanger a couple of years ago, and it has been a firm favourite ever since. The beauty of this piece lies in its simplicity; sparse chords on the piano twinkle like starlight, underpinning a melody that sounds as if it has been woven from a single thread. The piece exists in two versions\u2014the one heard here, written for solo voice and piano with a beautifully evocative text by Maurice Maeterlinck, and a sacred version written a year later for voice, violin, cello, harp and organ, with the text changed to \u2018Lux aeterna\u2019. I did consider recording the sacred version instead, but found myself repeatedly drawn back to the powerful text of the original. I also think it\u2019s important for the choristers to sing in languages other than those which dominate our repertoire (English and Latin), and, seeing as one of our girls is bilingual, speaking fluent French, we had a lot of fun working on the text as a group. This is a piece which draws you in, envelopes you in a warm embrace and then doesn\u2019t let you go.”<\/p>\n
To all weeping souls
\nto all sin to pass
\nI open in the midst of the stars
\nmy hands full of grace.<\/p>\n
No sin lives
\nwhere love speaks
\nNo soul dies
\nwhere love weeps<\/p>\n
And if love gets lost
\non the paths of the earth
\nIts tears will find me
\nand not go astray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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