Agnus Dei - 🇺🇦 A Beautiful Prayer For Our Brave Ukrainian Brothers and Sisters 🇺🇦

This is a Prayer, deep religious music, performed by Slovenian Philharmonic Choir. I dedicate this prayer to our suffering Ukrainian people under the brutal claws of the primitive and deadly attack. We all pray for you dear people of Ukraina, the heart of Eastern Europe.

Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings (1936). In 1967, he set the Latin words of the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, for mixed chorus with optional organ or piano accompaniment. The music, in B-flat minor, has a duration of about eight minutes.

Barber's Adagio for Strings began as the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, composed in 1936. At the request of Arturo Toscanini, he arranged it for string orchestra, and in January 1938 sent that version to the conductor, who premiered it in New York with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In setting it to the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, Barber changed the music only a little. As with the other arrangements of Adagio for Strings, it was published by G. Schirmer.

Performed by The Slovenian Philharmonic Choir
conductor: Jerica Bukovec

The Slovenian Philharmonic Choir was established as a professional choir in 1991. Initially known as the Slovenian Chamber Choir, it has been operating within the framework of the Slovenian Philharmonic since 1998. The choir's artistic director is Gregor Klančič.

https://www.filharmonija.si/en/

Recording set:

Jože Plečnik's unconventional design for the Church of St. Francis (Cerkev sv. Frančiška), constructed between 1925 and 1927, is derived from his plans for the Church of the Sacred Heart in Prague, built-in 1922. The central part of the church is covered with a gently sloping roof topped with a belfry added in 1931. The belfry has a distinctive shape dominated by two rows of pillars in its upper two storeys and a conic roof sloping up steeply.

The main entrance is enhanced by a monumental colonnade with an open tympanum. The inside of the church is unusual. Its central space is framed by a row of monumental brick columns, on the outer side of which, next to the walls, there is enough space to walk all the way around the central part of the church. The main altar is positioned right next to the colonnade, at a distance from the church wall behind it. It is flanked by side altars, which are also positioned next to the rows of columns.

Later, when the church was already in use, Plečnik occasionally added new elements to it. He furnished it with chandeliers and, after World War II, decorated the church's Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrow, baptistery and sacristy.

Production:

TAJUS and PPZ production
asistenti: Dan Ažman, Gal Nagode, Jakob Zevnik
light design: Gal Nagode
crane operator: Matej Zagorc
dolly grip: Gal Nagode
production lead and director of photography: Juš Hrastnik
sound: Kloptec produkcija
balance engineer: Iztok Zupan
mastering: Iztok Zupan
script: Primož Zevnik
assistant director and executive producer : Juš Hrastnik
editor and director: Primož Zevnik
recorded in st. Francis church in Ljubljana in last days of August 2020