Os justi, WAB 30
Anton Bruckner
Recording
Tenebrae, Nigel Short
- Album
- Brahms & Bruckner: Motets
- Year
- 2015
- Length
- Period
- Romantic
- Listen
Painting
Albrecht Dürer
St. Jerome in his Study, 1514
The piece
Bruckner dated this gradual 18 July 1879 and dedicated it to Ignaz Traumihler, choirmaster of St. Florian Abbey, where it was first sung on 28 August 1879. It sets two verses of Psalm 37 for unaccompanied choir in the Lydian mode with no accidentals, and ends with a two-bar unison Alleluia.
The recording
Tenebrae recorded it under Nigel Short at the Temple Church, London, in January 2015. The disc won the Choral Award at the 2016 BBC Music Magazine Awards.
Other recordings
The Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, under Duncan Ferguson (Delphian, 2011) and the Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner (Deutsche Grammophon) are also worth hearing.