Amazing Grace for SSAATTBB Choir

Description

For Soprano Solo and SSAATTBB Choir E�envalds' arrangement of Amazing Grace was made for Riga Youth Choir, 'Kamer...� in 2004. It is a kind of chorale-variation set--the famous tune is never exactly the same each time it is heard. After its initial statement by a solo soprano the melody becomes gradually more embedded in a rich eight-part texture; instead of the usual ascending semitonal key-shifts, descending modulations serve to ratchet up the intensity and lead to an ecstatic peroration in the home key. - from notes by Gabriel Jackson � 2015