Video Information

• Choir: Quartetto al Volo
• Piece: Heiliger Dankgesang
• Composer:  Beethoven
• Arranger:  David Rain
• Voices:  TTBB
• Sheet Music:   Email rain@magma.ca
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Sacred, romantic, German, Virtual Choir
• “Heiliger Dankgesang,” is my choral adaptation of the 3rd movement of Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132. Dedicated to Nicol Matt and the World Choir for Peace. I invite you to join me in supporting their fundraising campaign: more“Heiliger Dankgesang,” is my choral adaptation of the 3rd movement of Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132. Dedicated to Nicol Matt and the World Choir for Peace. I invite you to join me in supporting their fundraising campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/world-choir-for-peace-singing-unites?
  
  Lyrics (adapted from Psalm 116):
  
  German: “Liebe erfüllt mich, weil mein Gott die Stimme meines Flehens erhört hat. Kehre zurück, meine Seele, in deine Ruh: denn mein Gott hat dir wohlgethan. Liebe erfüllt mich. O Freude, O Wonne, Die Sonne! O Freude, das ich am Leben bin. Liebe erfüllt mich.”
  
  English translation: “I am filled with love, for my God has heard the voice of my supplication. Return, my soul, to your rest: for my God has made you well. I am filled with love. O Joy, O Bliss, the Sun! O Joy that I am alive. I am filled with love.”
  
  Background:
  
  In July 2019, I went to one of Julian Armour’s Music and Beyond concerts in Ottawa, where I first heard the Bennewitz Quartet play Beethoven’s stunningly beautiful "Heiliger Dankgesang" movement. I was transformed and at times I thought I could hear a choir singing in my head.
  
  NB: Beethoven created this deeply personal music after surviving a serious illness and wrote these words on the score: "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" ("Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian mode").
  
  Shortly after this concert, I travelled to Austria and Germany, where I had the honour of listening to Nicol Matt premiere my Ave Maria arrangement of a favourite Brahms Intermezzo with the Chamber Choir of Europe: https://youtu.be/z2nh40PPpu0?list=PL6F-ucaLKW-y0r3yI_lbbsi9bQJpUvuvV.
  
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