O Magnum Mysterium for treble voices?
  • Anyone know where I can find a good quality O Magnum for treble voices other than the Gerald Near? I have a small women's choir that can handle 2 or 3 parts.
  • MarkS
    Posts: 282
    Darn—I was going to suggest the Near. It's pretty cool!
  • The trebles in our choir have sung this setting by John Brackenborough, and I quite like it:
    http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/O_magnum_mysterium_(John_J._Brackenborough)
  • jefe
    Posts: 200
    I'm with barliatone: we've done the Brackenborough and it's a fine piece for SSA. If you can muster 4 parts, this one is a good one to work on and perform if slightly more contrapuntal. The Victoria with 4 parts has too wide a tessitura for successful transposing to women's voices.