Check out a new composer of Sacred Music [Fr. Z]

[Catholic_Opinion]

From a reader:
I happened upon this website providentially and am impressed with the efforts of this musician. He is doing what many more liturgical musicians should be doing: composing new music that conforms to the spirit of the liturgy and is beautiful. He is very generous too, as he gave me some advice for my own efforts at liturgical composition. Could you give him a boost? Thank you and God bless you, Father.
The composer is Nicholas Wilton. He is in the UK.

catholicmusic.co.uk/images/cd_cover1.jpgCheck it out by clicking here. Try the music samples.

Frankly, I’d like his CD!

Here is one piece called Ave in aeternum:

We must foster new sacred music, new compositions for your living Church’s worship.

Progress… growth… in continuity.

Full entry…

 

[benedictgal]

From a reader:
I happened upon this website providentially and am impressed with the efforts of this musician. He is doing what many more liturgical musicians should be doing: composing new music that conforms to the spirit of the liturgy and is beautiful. He is very generous too, as he gave me some advice for my own efforts at liturgical composition. Could you give him a boost? Thank you and God bless you, Father.
The composer is Nicholas Wilton. He is in the UK.

catholicmusic.co.uk/images/cd_cover1.jpgCheck it out by clicking here. Try the music samples.

Frankly, I’d like his CD!

Here is one piece called Ave in aeternum:

We must foster new sacred music, new compositions for your living Church’s worship.

Progress… growth… in continuity.

Full entry…

All I can say is WOW!

 

[Sarabande]

Beautiful! Absolutely inspiring and sacred. Thank you for sharing that.

What I can say is that there are composers out there doing things like this, but unfortunately they are not getting the recognition and the “breaks” within the Catholic music industry - if you can call it that. It certainly seems like that right now.

If you want to hear and get similar Catholic sacred music from respected, contemporary (contemporary meaning still alive) composers, go to this site. I have friend who has one of his choral sacred works published through them.

canticanova.com/index.html

I’ve posted this before, but I don’t have any other on-line recordings of this composer. His name is Harold Boatrite, is a very devout Catholic and a well-respected composer as well as a retired music professor. He was actually my husband’s composition teacher for a time.

materecclesiae.org/

 

[brotherhrolf]

I really miss singing in my cathedral choir. The music may have been inspired by the motets of the Renaissance but it’s not the same, yet so Catholic. Closest thing we ever had was John Rutter. Motets in English are like taking a shower with a raincoat.
Sing my tongue the Savior’s glory is not Pange Lingua Gloriosi.

Good stuff. Back to the future!