In concert performances the songs, or a selection of them, may be performed in any order and combination. English translations from the Polish are also included, for reference only.The three publications present the songs for sacred use according to devotional subject-matter. The Latin text is carefully crafted to fit Górecki's score and is both poetic and sensitive to the devotional aspect of the songs. A special feature of the Boosey publications is the new, alternative Latin sung text by Edward Tambling, which will be attractive to the many choirs who do not wish to sing in Polish. This edition is based on the PWM edition of 2013, which was produced with the assistance of Anna Górecka and Miko?aj Górecki. Górecki's Church Songs, based on melodies from Rev Jan Siedlecki's ?piewniki Ko?cielne ('church songbooks'), were composed in 1986.
The work is situated in the context of Boyd’s personal musical aestheticwhich she describes as the intersection of Christian Love with Buddhist silence. The parts of the infant Jesus Mary the Narrator and the angel Gabriel are taken by choir soloists: soprano alto tenor and bass. The medium has been expanded from the Song Company’s six solo voices used in the Revelations to the double motet choir of the Sydney Philharmonia who commissioned this work for their 75thanniversary. This setting grows from the visionary mystical world inhabited by Julian of Norwich whose Revelations of Divine Love provided the inspiration for awork Anne Boyd composed in 1994. The vision fades away in the voice of the narratorwhose loneliness and longing return. At this point Mary is persuaded by and echoes her child’s reassuring words and she is joined in this by the choir (now representing us all). Jesus reassures his mother that he will be with his father in heaven where Mary will come to join Him at the end oftime there to live in eternal bliss. Mary recounts the visit ofGabriel and the events of Christ’s birth but reflects how sad it is to have delivered a child to such a fate. Jesus tells her that all mothers worry about their children’s futures and insists that she should sing nevertheless.
The child requests hismother to sing a lullaby but alas knowing her child’s fate she is too sad to sing. The poet recounts a vision of the young Mary rocking the infant Christ to sleep. Jesus Reassures His Mother is a setting of medieval lyric poetry written anonymously in the 14th century.
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