Ave verum 2020 SAB

Mariano Garau's Ave verum for SAB voices is a devotional setting of the familiar Latin text, drawing on a long tradition of musical settings of this eucharistic text. The music opens with a gentle and reflective mood, the voices entering in a close, imitative texture that gradually unfolds. Garau's setting captures the profound reverence of the text, which meditates on the true body of Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, who suffered and was sacrificed on the cross for humankind. The piece concludes with heartfelt pleas for mercy.