The following virtual-choir videos were recorded and created whilst Excelsis was self-isolating in April 2020. Concept, piano accompaniment and production is by Tom Buchanan.
In Flanders Fields
Poem: Dr John McCrae
Music: John Jacobson and Roger Emerson
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, RV589
Antonio Vivaldi
The audio excerpts below are taken from Excelsis’ performance of Karl Jenkins’ Stabat Mater at St Patrick’s Cathedral in East Melbourne, on 23 June 2017.
Cantus Lacrimosus: The first movement
Vidit Jesum In Tormentis: ‘She saw Jesus in torment’
Now My Life Is Only Weeping: Aaaahhhh
Paradisi Gloria: Some of our biggest ‘Amens’ yet…