![]() Where charity and love are, God is there. With a sound at once modern and medieval, this remarkable setting of the familiar Latin text starts in unison and evokes plain chant, and gradually unfolds into. From an early age he was exposed to a range of different genres of. In those cases, I’d usually recommend ending with Ubi Caritas II. Ola Gjeilo was born in, in Sandvika, Norway. ![]() ![]() The traditional melody probably also stems from the late 8th century. Its text is attributed to Paulinus of Aquileia in 796. While Ubi Caritas II functions as an independent work, it’s also intended to be used in combination with the other piece, for example as prelude/postlude ‘bookends’, perhaps yielding a sense of unity and conclusion to the concert or recording. Ubi caritas or Ubi Caritas et Amor is a hymn of the Western Church, long used as one of the antiphons for the washing of feet on Maundy Thursday. Re-imagining some of the same material, such as the main theme from the first piece, Ubi Caritas II is in one sense a more sunny version of its prequel. Ubi Caritas II is a closely related sequel to my Ubi Caritas published in 2007.
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