The Latin hymn ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ has been set by some of classical music’s best-loved composers, most famously by Mozart. ‘Ave Verum Corpus’, meaning ‘Hail true body’, is a Eucharistic hymn (holy ...

Just forty-six bars containing around three minutes of music. And yet they are capable of leaving the listener just as moved as might an entire five-day long cycle of Wagner’s The Ring. And certainly ...

The morning commute was like any other — almost. As cars flew by on the northbound 710, I hit “play” on my iPod and a melody swept over me. Rush hour melted away. “Ah-vey, ah-vey, veh-room ...

Ave verum corpus was composed in June 1791, not long before the Requiem was begun. Mozart’s wife Constanze was at that time taking the waters at the spa town of Baden, and in the course of his own ...

The concert opens with an early Miserere, alternating plainchant with old-style polyphony, and a single black horse spinning around on the spot, its rider making odd arm gestures. Then comes an ...