Choral Music by Jana Skarecky

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BABYLON

  (2006)   [12”]
   Text: Viggo Mortensen
    Instr.: SATB choir a cappella
 
AVE MARIS STELLA (2004)   [5’45”] (CLICK TO LISTEN)
  Commissioned by the Choirs of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto
  Text: Latin 9th c., transl. Athelstan Riley
  Instr: SATB choir a cappella
  Performance: Toronto 2004
 
SONG OF LIFE (2001)   [5’30”]
   Commissioned by the ACWC for Women in Music Festival, Ottawa, 2002
   Texts: Hildegard von Bingen, George C. Scott
   Instr: SATB choir a cappella
 
LA CORONA (1990, 1993)   [13’]
   Commissioned by the Renaissance Singers, Kitchener, ON
    Instr.: 3 motets ; SATB choir a cappella
 
SING WE TRIUMPHANT HYMNS OF PRAISE (1989)   [2’]
   Text: The Venerable Bede
   Instr.: SATB choir (& opt. organ/piano)
 
GOD IS OUR REFUGE (1987)   [4’]
   Text: Psalm 46
   Instr.: SATB choir a cappella
 
OUR LIGHT HAS COME (1984)   [8’]
   Commissioned for the 150th anniversary of St. Peter's Lutheran Church,
   Cambridge, Ontario
   Text: Jana Skarecky
   Instr.: SSA choir & organ
 
THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM (1984)   [5’30”]
   Commissioned for the 140th anniversary of Knox Presbyterian Church,
    Stratford, Ontario
    Text: Psalm 122 (Scottish Psalter) & Revelation 21:2-5 (RSV)
    Instr.: Soprano solo, SSATB choir, organ
 
REQUIEM INTROIT: IN MEMORIAM HERBERT HOWELLS (1983)   [2’30”]
   Text: from the Requiem Mass
   Instr.: SSATB choir a cappella
 
MAGNIFICAT & NUNC DIMITTIS (1979, revised 1983) [5’30’’]
 Text: Luke 1:46-55, 2:29-32 (KJV)
  Instr.: SATB choir a cappella
 
   IN CELEBRATION (1982)   [4’]
   Text.: W.H. Auden, from "For the Time Being"
   Instr.: soprano solo & SATB choir a cappella
 
FOUR CZECH CAROLS (1977, revised 1981)    [8’]
   Text: Jana Skarecky
   Instr.: SATB choir a cappella
 
BETHLEHEM LULLABY (1980)   [3’]
     Text: Isabel Wyatt
   Instr.: unison choir or soprano solo, piano
 
THE SECRET FLOWER (1981)   [4’]
   Text: 17th-century German, transl. Eleanor Farjeon
   Instr.: Soprano solo & SATB choir a cappella
 
GLORIA (1980)  
   Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins: "Pied Beauty", "The Windhover",
    "Oratio Patris Condren", "God's Grandeur" & Latin Gloria from the Mass 
   Instr.: Soprano, baritone, & tenor soli, SSAATTBB choir, 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, & organ
 
MASS IN THE LYDIAN MODE (1979)   [8’]
   Text: English Mass
   Instr.: SSA choir a cappella
 
LOVE IS COME AGAIN (1979)   [4’]
   Text: J.M.C. Crum
   Instr.: SATB choir a cappella
 
 

 

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