The SSA collection is wonderful--thanks! I'm always looking for good music for trebles.

Salieri, I was thinking you could have some of your countertenors sing this like they do in the video. The notes say: children's voices, or women's or men's voices, or possibly men doubling as women's voices.

(It's part of Caplet's Messe a trois voix and is supposed to be sung after the Consecration as is the French custom. The rest of the Mass is just stunning, but perhaps just a little too far out in outer space, at least for my taste.)

Rarely performed is the Byrd 6-part setting (unpublished in his lifetime). It is full of dissonances, more so than the usual ones seen in other of Byrd's works (eg. the Ave verum corpus, but necessary because of Byrd's adherence to the strict canon amongst three of the parts. It is a masterpiece, nonetheless, and here is one excellent new recording:

Byrd "O salutaris hostia a 6" - performed by Q6

https://soundcloud.com/thequeenssix/o-salutaris-hostia/s-fBsfo

Score from CPDL, in an excellent edition by Edward Tambling (the other score at CPDL is a transposition and has some errors/omissions).

Finally, here is a video performance by Ensemble Sine Nomine of the same work. I prefer the Q6 performance, though.

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150715033985215

By contrast, the 4-part setting of this text by Byrd is much more tame.

Byrd "O salutaris hostia a 6" - performed by Q6

https://soundcloud.com/thequeenssix/o-salutaris-hostia/s-fBsfo

Score from CPDL, in an excellent edition by Edward Tambling (the other score at CPDL is a transposition and has some errors/omissions).

I love how they end the O salutaris hostia on what sounds like a consonant 9th chord, very magical.

Heath ... I know ... it's frabgious, isn't it.

Rick, thanks so much for the SATB Berchem arrangement. My collection of O Salutaris Hostia is growing. I'm so pleased, I'm positively beamish.

People here probably already know it, but Elgar is very nice and not hard.

Do you have Jehan Alain's setting?

Here's another one to add to the collection. Unfortunately, I can't find much on the composer, M. Angel Viro, but this is, I think, a very graceful and polished arrangement.

Here is one more to add to the collection. O Salutaris Hostia by J. Lewis Browne. I think it's beautiful and perhaps better than those posted so far (IMHO)

The rest of the Mass is just stunning, but perhaps just a little too far out in outer space, at least for my taste.)

Which is really what the church needs more of. If music had continued to grow in the 1970's instead of being strangled by the folk music, life might be easier and happier for many of us.

Cool thread, with bits for The Musicology Project.
Speaking of which, there's another Browne O Salutaris ("#2") here

I just thought of one more O Salutaris by Werner. A very simple arrangement and quite easy to sing with 4 parts, both Latin and English text.

That is indeed a great piece to have in your repertoire. It's simple but very effective.

I wanted to put in another plug for the astonishing six-voice Byrd "O salutaris," one of my absolute favorites.

Transposed score for mixed voices, here, and another (audio) performance, here.

We have been singing this one for a few years now... Pierre de La Rue

http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/images/sheet/rue-osa1.pdf

Julie - thanks for your kind note. I did a lot of recording in the summers of 2013 and 2014, and this is one track from those sessions. PM me for more information.