This guy drove his van onto a beach and wrote this. What a gift!!.,

Glorious

We buried my sister yesterday. She sang this piece several times in her rich contralto. I've never been in a choir that did it, but I've learned it from You Tube, because I am ABSOLUTELY SURE when I find her in heaven, it will be in the heavenly tenor section and this will be on the repertoire. And I want to sing it with her. Miss you, Marilyn.

I've performed this piece many times and never cease to be thrilled to hear it. Takes me back to some of the finest times in my life.

I have sung this piece numerous times with various choirs and I still experience the greatest difficulty getting through it without becoming emotionally affected. The harmonic language of the piece reaches deep inside me and truly stirs my soul to its very core. I also write music and if ever I were to find the insight, skill and imagination to write something which speaks to others as this piece speaks to me then I would regard myself as having been truly heavenly blessed.

Heart and soul worship and adoration; awesomely beautiful, shalom, amen.

2024 still listening

Where can we purchase the arrangement? We wanted to learn this for Christmas with the family :)

Looking for a nice Filipino or Chinese lady from Philippines :) Maybe second time will get more lucky

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Permission to use your piece po for our school program ❤❤

AND THE ANGELS WERE LISTENING ...

Wow, simply beautiful 🙏

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Played this for my Father when he was dying.

I had Morten Lauridsen for Freshman Music Theory at the Univ. of So. Cal in 1969. It was his first year of teaching as a graduate student TA. If I had known what beautiful music he was going to write, I might have paid more attention!

nice! but try adjusting it to 1.25 playback speed.

This incredible music can communicate the Word of GOD better than any Sermon can. After listening to this many times consecutively i want to sit silently think about how to be a better human being. OR ,to lighten the mood a bit, as someone else said ,"if this ain't played at my funeral I'm not going !"

I know you're in heaven know, Kuya Gino. Thank you for leaving us a lovely and memorable arrangement of this beautiful song.

“The great mystery” is the translated Latin, I believe. This song is potently meaningful to me, because the man (my choir director) who introduced it to me lost his wife to cancer when she was only in her 40s.. and he was such a good teacher, that I’ve kept in touch for almost 20 yrs. The song is about the great mystery of the afterlife.. and I sent him this song after his wife died to hopefully give him comfort, as I was going through very hard times when he introduced the song to me and it’s still the most gorgeous piece of music ever written imo.

Hello po, pwede po makahingi ng instrumental po?🥺

Frickin incredible. You guys are the best in the world

Huhu I'm crying! How can I get the score?

This must be what the Heavenly Choir sounds like❤

I love this song so much. Makes me cry every single time. Amazing rendition also by the Philippine Madrigal Singers. 🤍

He needs a cowboy hat and boots added in

One of the jury even said the most beautiful sound on earth

In Memoriam Fernando Cortés Domènech (1949-2023) Rest In Peace.

This execution is really unique in its colour, dynamics and spiritual devotion to the performance. The choir is fascinatingly ballanced, and there is no more convincing rendition of this particular composition so far in my opinion. If M. Lauridsen had written only this one choir piece, it would be enough for the entire human world. Such choice of musical means to create such an outstanding musical product comes only when the inspiration of its author meets the moment of his higher intuitive insight in the truth telling us who we are and what our limits might be...

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

I am dedicating this hymn to Byron McGilvray and Bob Fox, two of the finest singers I have sung for and with, both Robert Shaw alumni. We celebrated Bob’s life this past weekend at Christ Church, Winnetka, IL, where Bob was bass section leader of our wonderful choir. We will be in Boston singing at Trinity Church a week from this coming Saturday. John Robertson

I am heartbroken to hear that you are experencing this glory in a time of such horrific loss. But then,,,I know what this music is to me, and I rejoice that you have allowed your heart to honor the love between a parent and child. Bless you.

Hands up to every Madrigal who ever loved singing this ❤

Hello Sir, Do you have an SATB arrangement on this? Because its really Beautiful <3

What a clarity and beauty!

I can feel some sadness when listening to this. Like when you los someone who was very important to you, you two were so close and had a strong bond (sibling, partner or best friend). It was.like the two of you were inseperatable, but then the other person passes away and you feel like you will never be yourself again and that you'll be broken for life. But then time passes, years pass and you start to heal from this loss. The person you loved will never come back, but YOU'RE still here. And you realize that you can actually feel peaceful and happy again and live with the fact that you will always miss this person, but it's possible to move on and be happy on your own.

The wind ensemble arrangement is better

Angels from heaven singing...... So beautiful

Brandon the Cloud

This brings peace to my soul.

The storms of life may shake our ground, a greater peace still dwells in our hearts. The dreams we build may fall apart, A deeper hope still runs in our hearts. Fear no harm, we are ruled by a far greater love, a far greater love Who would have known life would be such a mystery? For the world is yearning still and our hearts keep burning. We dare to believe there's something greater than our hearts We're never alone. All else may go wrong, still will there be a love far greater than our hearts

This is awesome! ❤

Simply stunning. I hadn't heard of it until the other day; it's on the song list for a concert by The Sixteen, a fantastic choir here in the UK. Very much looking forward to hearing it sung live in a few weeks, in December 2023.

The first time I ever heard this was at a live concert and I literally had tears of joy running down my cheek by the end. I simply could not comprehend the sheer beauty of the sound I was experiencing.

Absolutely sublime

Its like hearing the voices of million souls in purgatory asking for salvation. Nakakakilabot ang rendition ng Madz

I am unable to ascertain exactly what this Choir and Mr. Lauridsen intended, but they have jointly succeeded in making me tear up.

Awesome thanks

hindi ko na ito masyadong naririnig sa churuch

I love this piece. I know it well. I can recall watching the premier of a Tavener violin concertto at the Barbican. In the interval there was a choir singing this piece next to the bar. The closed environment with the crunchy chords and polyphony melted my heart and I was in tears by the end of the interval. There's not one thing I don't like about this piece- just perfect.