Palestrina and Lauridsen - O Magnum Mysterium

"O Magnum Mysterium"

Palestrina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1QjkhENZg8

Palestrina's Wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina

Morten Lauridsen's setting of O Magnum Mysterium

King's College Choir

Live, Midnight Mass, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ch7uottHU

Again, Lauridsen's setting of O Magnum Mysterium

Westminster Cathedral Choir 

Live, Midnight Mass, 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y9yM53TowA

Studio version, O Magnum Mysterium

Nordic Chamber Choir

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn5ken3RJBo&list=PLF0DF8FF81630B9C4

O Magnum Mysterium 

Youth Choir of the Latvian Academy of Culture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2YuHS-vVn4&list=PLF0DF8FF81630B9C4


Morten Lauridsen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Lauridsen

Lauridsen explains how Zurbarán's "Still Life With Lemons, Oranges and a Rose" inspired 
"O Magnum Mysterium."  
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123516723329736303

"O Magnum Mysterium"

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Magnum_Mysterium

To me, "Magnum Mysterium" is the name of God that feels best suited.

As humankind outgrows its medieval understanding of divinity, 
we would benefit from more mystery-awe-reverence 

and less feigned knowledge.

"Music Of The Spheres" By Rued Langgaard And "Harmony Of The Spheres" By Joep Franssens

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-music-of-spheres-rued-langgaard.html

Sufism And The Mysticism Of Music

https://sufiway.org/teaching/seven-contemplations-on-the-open-path/14-teachings/45-the-mysticism-of-music

Lutheran mystic Jacob Boehme's best known work is "Mysterium Magnum."
https://archive.org/details/JacobBoehmesMysteriumMagnumPartOne

Boehme's Wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_B%C3%B6hme