The Confessions of Saint Augustine

O Domine Jesu, memento mei! (O Lord Jesus, remember me)

Soul’s prayer

I contemplate the dreadful day

Bless the Lord, O my soul

Our Father (The Lord’s Prayer)

Libera nos a malo (Deliver us from evil) Credo and Alleluia

"The Aether" is a mystical, cinematic sound journey exploring the invisible energy that animates the cosmos. With poetic verses and an awe-filled chorus, the song reflects on the ancient idea of the Aether—not as dark or empty space, but as a sacred, conscious field that gives rise to matter, movement, and meaning. Blending science and spirit, it suggests that this subtle force may be the medium through which consciousness flows and connects all beings to Source. The music evokes the silence between stars, the hum of atoms, and the breath of divine mystery.

The Aether

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK (1854-1921): THE MIRACLE (1911)
First Complete Recording
No. 13: Final Chorus, Act 1 (Excerpt)
Rundfunkchor Berlin · Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin · Steffen Tast
2CD-Set C5543 [12/2025]

Engelbert Humperdinck: The Miracle (1911)

Performed by the Combined Choirs of Hebrew Union College and Jewish Theological Seminary, Joyce Rosenzweig, conductor.

V’higad’ta L’vincha by Gerald Cohen is based on selections from the Passover Haggadah. The Haggadah, or “telling,” is the text that is used at the Jewish Seder, the family meal—full of discussion, ceremony, and song—that is the central feature of the Passover celebration of freedom and rejoicing.
One of the most significant themes of the Haggadah, emphasized in Cohen’s choices of text for the piece, is that we all must experience the story of the deliverance from slavery as if we ourselves had lived through it; we must then tell our children that story so as to pass it down, vividly, from one generation to the next. Children are thus the central figures in the Seder, and it seemed most appropriate to write a setting of this text in a work composed for children’s chorus.

The piece begins with a chant-like presentation of the biblical verse that instructs us to tell our children the story of the Exodus, and then moves, as does the Haggadah, from the oppression of slavery to the joy of deliverance. That joy is expressed especially in the famous text “Dayeinu” (“It would have been enough…”), set here as a lively dance, and in the final “L’fichach,” which gives thanks to God in a procession which grows from a quiet beginning to an exuberant conclusion.

Also available in the original SSA version. 


V’higad’ta L’vincha (And You Shall Tell Your Child…)

Lyrics 

In the sacred heights above
Voices raised in divine song
Lux aeterna luceat
Who stand tall against the throng


Through tempests fierce they run
Their spirits bold and bright
Gloria in excelsis 
In endless days and night


Warriors of hope press on
Through mankind's darkest fears
Fortitudo et virtus 
As victory draws near



Ancient powers guide their way
Through battles fierce and long
Sanctus bellator surgit 
Make weak ones brave and strong


When dawn breaks through at last
And peace returns once more
Pax et libertas 
Upon freedom's distant shore



Together they'll remember
The price of liberty
In aeternum memoriam
For all eternity


And when the stars align once more
Their oath shall rise anew
Ad astra per aspera 
Their hearts forever true


 "Gloria, gloria in aeternum… Lux, fides, gloria…"

Lux Aeterna - REMASTERED - HD

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