NoonSong: Music Between Longing and New Beginnings

In the two psalm settings of this Noon Song, worlds collide: in Sweelinck, the austere Calvinist chorale in the polyphonic style of the late Renaissance; in MacMillan, a sonorous, passionate motet by a devout Catholic. Yet astonishing musical connections emerge. Perhaps it is the seriousness and contemplative character of the ancient psalm texts that shapes the works?