This performance of composer Jocelyn Hagen's "Agnus Dei" (from Ashes of Roses) was recorded LIVE at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota in winter of 2020.

From the composer:

“Agnus Dei” was composed in 2011 to be included in my requiem for chorus and orchestra Ashes of Roses. There are only two movements in the requiem in which an English text is set. This excerpt from Corinthians is extremely powerful and moving, ideal for a dramatic soloist, and set against the ostinato of the male voices. My requiem really centers around the idea of transformation. But more than that, it’s about transforming into lightness, into beauty. So many requiems focus on darkness and end somberly, but Ashes of Roses does not. It ends with a brightness, centering on the fact that we all someday transition into something beyond ourselves, and that should be celebrated."

- Jocelyn Hagen

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Soloist: Brandon Martin
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