Crank up your speakers and give this video a try. Once it’s done, now consider that this is just compressed YouTube audio, and that the main track they will be selling blows this away if your system can support. Assuming you are an audiophile if you are reading this…it probably can. I’ll try to remember to come back and add a link to their Blu-Ray/SACD and files when they become available.
Video from the recording of Kim André Arnesen’s MAGNIFICAT to be released by 2L on Pure Audio Blu-ray this October, featuring both Auro-3D and Dolby Atmos audio streams.
The Magnificat is the Virgin Mary’s song of praise to God after one of the Bible’s greatest wonders: the angel Gabriel visiting her with the message that she is to be the mother of God’s son. In his setting Kim André Arnesen expresses the feelings Mary must have felt: wonder, devotion, gratitude, joy, humility, hope and compassion. God’s selection of an unknown woman living in poverty to be the mother of His son is a bottom-up view of the world if ever there was one – and Arnesen sees the Magnificat as offering support and hope for all people struggling against adversity or in need of strength.
Musica Celestis portrays the ceaseless praising of God by angels in heaven. Aaron Jay Kernis builds his work around a fairly simple melody which
