dilexi.quoniam

still discerning whether anything will come of this…

[rowantaymuree]

Check this moment out. It’s one of them ones❤️

(from Howells’ Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense, Nunc Dimittis)

[rowantaymuree]

So we were recording William’s Child’s snappily titled “O Lord God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance” today and there’s a bit of text that’s repeated through a section “shall Thy (as in, the Lord’s) jealousy burn like fire” and the texture dynamically softens a bit (oh hush idc that dynamics aren’t originally written), and then the tenors have this amazing moment in which, the flame, now reduced to a little flamelet, flickers (and before the word “forever” to boot, betraying the current emotion by portraying the answer to the question). Ugh, it’s this level and subtlety and detail that makes me happy-rage, so so clever❤️