"Assumpta est Maria. Mary has been assumed into heaven , the angels rejoice..."
Any
text about rising to heaven is a gift for a composer, says Monsignor Philip Whitmore
as he asks us to listen to the joyful surging scales in Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's
motet focusing on the Assumption of Our Lady into heaven.
To mark this feast
day, Monsignor Whitmore also steps ahead in time chosing music by a living English
composer John Tavener...
A programme focusing on the Fourth
Glorius Mystery of the Rosary produced by Veronica Scarisbrick.