Choral Music by Jana Skarecky
BACK TO 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