(Vatican Radio ) "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 Philip 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. Listen :